Saturday afternoon’s game brought sunshine and a good fast match against Vijayanti. We managed to have our biggest squad of the season so far, with 18 players turning up, yet no coach who was tucked up at home in bed. Our captain Helen produced a rather interesting yet very fair sub schedule that gave us all similar playing time and kept the legs fresh. A special thank you to Kirsten who kept on top of this and made sure we went on and came off when we were supposed to. The game started quickly and their number 11 proved early on to be someone who we needed to keep an eye on. However our girls held their own comfortably and it wasn’t long until Charlie opened the scoring with a very satisfying smack against the back boards.
Second half saw us start 1 up and Rosie quickly doubled this with a goal that felt like it was going in in slow motion, as it rebounded off the boards and slowly dribbled back towards the circle. Given some of the umpiring decisions that had already taken place Rosie wisely ensured that it stayed in there, she didn’t want it be disallowed. Chris decided it would be a good idea to fall over an opposing player who had tripped and she rolled her ankle well enough to stop play and require ice.
Obviously when play resumed the free hit went to Vijayanti…? We are still trying to work out why.
Helen scored our third goal with some lovely play in the circle and then their number 11 finally struck and hit in a great, unstoppable goal. However it didn’t get the team down and we quickly resumed control of the match, with Charlie scoring her second of the day, off a spectacular push out by Rosie on a short corner.
Helen was awarded Lady of the Match, most deservedly and a big thank you should go to our very vocal supporters from our Men’s and Ladies teams.
Aussie Char
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