England Under 18 hockey international George Morris hands out the awards at Spalding primary schools tournament
A protege of Spalding Hockey Club who has gone on to earn international selection handed out the trophies at the finals of the primary schools tournaments held at Glen Park in Surfleet.
George Morris was the special guest at the event which has attracted a great deal of interest from the schools over the five tournaments held this year.
He started his career with Spalding Hockey Club's juniors at the age of four and played for St Norbert's in three primary school tournaments.
Morris went on to play for Spalding seniors, making his first team debut when 14.
After a season with City of Peterborough in the English National League, Morris moved on to Repton School and Club where he helped the side to further promotion.
Morris made his international debut in February, playing for England Under 18s against Ireland and continues to train regularly with the national squad.
Nineteen teams from 12 local primary schools participated in the finale which, as usual, saw sides split into four graded leagues at advanced, intermediate and two beginners.
The two clear favourites in the Advanced League were Boston-based Tower Road A and Spalding's Monkshouse.
Monkshouse started off at a cracking pace and recorded 6-0 wins in both their opening games against Gosberton Academy A and John Harrox A.
Tower Road A also had two wins (2-0 and 3-0) over the same teams so it was set up for a winner-takes-all in the last game of the day.
Monkshouse came out strongly and were 2-0 up at the break and they added a further two goals in a strong second half display to take the Advanced League title with Tower Road A finishing in the runners-up slot.
Tower Road B went one better by dominating the Intermediate League after winning all four of their games.
They recorded 2-0 wins over Eye Primary, St John's and Spalding Parish in their opening games but were made to work really hard by their Boston neighbours St Thomas' A in the final game.
St Thomas' also recorded three wins so it was all to play for with Tower Road B just triumphing 2-1 to take the trophy.
Tower Road demonstrated their strength in depth when their C team took the honours in the Beginner A League.
Like their B team, they won all four matches by beating John Harrox B and St Thomas' B (both 2-0) Gosberton Risegate (3-1) and St Norbert's A (3-0) to take the top spot.
Gosberton Risegate performed well with three wins over St Norbert's A (1-0), John Harrox B (3-0) and St Thomas's B (2-0) to finish in second place.
St Norbert's B started strongly in the Beginner B League by winning their opening two games against Surfleet Primary ((1-0) and Tower Road D (2-0).
They had to settle for draws with Gosberton Academy B (1-1) and Pinchbeck East (0-0) in their closing games, however, this was enough to secure the top position.