Oxford City 3 v Didcot 2 - 12.10.14
19-4 Loss
On Sunday a full squad of Awesomites faced off against an experienced Didcot team. I don't think they had a player on the pitch without a few years' local league experience under their belt so it was always going to be one of the team's toughest challenges this season.
We went out there with a lot of energy, everyone gave it their all, and the team spirit was fantastic. We did concede a lot of goals, particularly running in shots, but Didcot were on shooting form and sometimes no matter how well you defend they just drop. I've a feeling a lot of lessons were learned the hard way this match, particularly in defence as our opposition pulled no punches and exploited every slight lapse in concentration.
Didcot made us work hard for every pass and shot but work hard we did, and in return we created four goals (two from second half sub, Mr Rich H, continuing his long shooting form) and towards the end we were regularly putting some good moves together in attack and starting to find a rhythm.
Becca 'Blaze' put in a great performance claiming the collect for her own, allowing her division to put up shots and also made some good moves herself toward the end, coming this close to scoring (also, great cookies).
Shout out to Theo whose sheer determination got him his well-earned goal and Steve who did well all match to find acres of space and make shots that paid off. Pip has a bloody lip to prove her sterling efforts in defence, and Andy had to deal with some very tricky play. However he rose to the occasion and, despite that, did everything right and had a good all round performance. Michelle, Jo, Rich M & Mike (who did well despite learning some hard lessons from the strongest player in the match in my opinion) all put in great efforts to round out the team performance.
Overall, though, my player of the match is Laura who, in only her second game, showed how quickly she has picked up some of the finer aspects and made hard work for a much more experienced player all game. I could see her netball origins coming through to good effect! Collect, feed, defence, movement, she made things happen for the team with a well-rounded performance and one that bodes well for the future.
The scoreline doesn't matter here. Let's learn from our mistakes, take all those positives into training, and work hard for the next one. Great efforts everybody!
MVP - Laura
Scorers - Rich H (2), Laura (1), Theo (1)
- Match report by Gaz
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