Monday 21 March 2016

Match Report: Loss For City In Nail-Biting Bristol Match

Oxford City vs Bristol City - 12.12.15
16-18 Loss

The Christmas festivities were definitely taking their toll (at least in my case!) and that 11.15am start seemed much earlier than usual. We started slowly but our winning streak gave us confidence that we would come through. 

However, it seemed like we went three goals down from the start and the Bristol height was causing problems. Our one-shot attacks were not sinking and, 20 minutes in, we were in trouble.

Then Ruth rallied and scored two goals in quick session off brilliantly-shaped attacks. Dave and Gaz found another two so the half ended with us one goal up. Unfortunately, Dan's tactic of assuming you are a goal down was much more accurate for that period of play than the Gaz 'I am sure we are winning by more than that' response to the half-time scoreline.

In the second half we continued our goal streak and went two ahead. Dave was doing a great job marking Bristol City's basketballer, and there were two occasions where we timed out their attack. Niall and Catherine frequently leapt to claim collects that looked to be going into enemy hands and Alice evaded her marker for a smart goal. 

Unfortunately, we were hampered by some overly strict/unpredictable calls on blocking. Amy and Gaz probably saw the worst of this and it did have quite a detrimental affect on our game. It is very rare that you see Gaz request subbing so this game is memorable for at least that reason alone. Although it seemed fairly even between the two teams, Bristol were more clinical. They pulled away by two goals and controlled the final quarter to win the game. Darn!

It was quite a comedown but nothing a good montage of training won't fix. 


MVP - Dave, for tremendous efforts in defence marking a goal machine, and his usual five goals.
Scorers - Dave (5), Nick (3), Gaz (3), Ruth (3), Niall, Alice

- Match report by Jo

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