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WOMENS 3RD XI - 14/10/2023 VS EAST COAST 1 (A) 
 
TEAM: Womens 3rd XI 
DATE: 14/10/2023 
FIXTURE: Womens 3rd XI VS 14/10/2023 
HEADLINE: An early away day  
LEAGUE: EAST DIVISION 2 NORTH EAST 
VENUE: east coast  
RESULT: lost 3-1 
 
REPORT: 
Norwich turned up eager to continue their unbeaten streak. Despite early pressure from Norwich and a short corner won by Emily Winter East Coast were the first to score. City had to soak up a lot of pressure from and attacking East Coast and despite the best efforts from Niamh Rushton and Emma Bambridge we left the first half 2-0 down. Ali Wardail and Claire Snellings excellent team talk at half time meant that city entered the second half with their heads up, although unfortunately there were many short corners for East Coast following the starting whistle. A questionable tackle from Emily Winter meant that she spent two minutes on the bench, however city were still able to keep the ball out of the goal from excellent saves from our keeper Jess Westbury. East Coast manage to score their third goal of a straight strike from the top. Following some more pressure from East Coast, Longy joined Emily Winter in taking a green card and visited the sin bin. City carried on playing with Helen Brockington filling in defence for Longy, we managed to attack for the last minutes of the half and a superb ball into the D from Emily Winter meant that Esme Abbott could slip it behind the keeper into the backboard. East coast felt left out and were keen to join city on the bench earning a green then shortly after a yellow. We were disappointed with our first loss of the season but are keen to carry on next week and take home another win! Thank you to all the players that stepped up to help us out today - Anna Horsley, Jess Westbury, Sofia Hancy, Esme Abbott.  
Our player of the match went to Jess Westbury. 

MENS 1ST XI - 15/10/2023 VS CITY OF PETERBOROUGH 1 (A) 
 
TEAM: Mens 1st XI 
DATE: 15/10/2023 
FIXTURE: Mens 1st XI VS 15/10/2023 
HEADLINE: Superbly Clinical Display See's the M1s Score 8 
LEAGUE: CONFERENCE MIDLANDS 
VENUE: City Of Peterbough HC 
RESULT: 8-3 Win 
 
REPORT: A well known foe that are always hard to beat but we were in good spirits after last week's performance and knew wed have to be at our best again. 
 
Norwich City made a superb start, Peterbough barely touched it for 10 minutes. 2 goals later and they were well onto the back foot an incredible passing and moving play all the way from a 16 to the D saw Elliot Hibell find Cam Cooke who found Harry Gill who passed across the D to an unmarked Chris Wardale at the back post. Before an Elliot Hibell drag from our first short corner of the day was saved into the path of Josh Baker who rebounded in to double the lead. Unfortunately a calamitious end to the quarter saw peterborough sneak back into the clash after creating zero threat In quarter 1. Q1: 2-1 lead for Norwich. 
Q2 began and the dominance continued. A few short corners were won but nothing changed the scoreboard. Until Thomas cooke quickly took a long corner and found Dave Gilbert in space, he cut into the D and reversed into the bottom right corner towards Chris Wardale (Tapin) who had his 2nd Tap-in and goal of the game. HT 3-1. 
In Q3 after the squad saw out a yellow card we started to see signs of the team back to their best. Dave, Josh, Cam & Ben combining well to give the peterbough defence a torrid time passing around, Turnover after turnover ensued and Norwich city were in the ascendancy. Cameron Cooke worked hard for a turnover and found Dave Gilbert who won a short that Elliot Hibell put away, 4-1. The same trio linked up in exactly the same way for Elliot to make it 5-1 a few minutes later. Then to end the quarter Max Wilson shot was saved, Josh Bakers rebound was saved and Chris Wardale at the third timing of asking put the ball in and had his third goal of the game. Q3: 6-1. 
Quarter 4 saw a few more chances come but the city of peterborough goalkeeper made sure they didn't add to the scoreline. Peterborough did then start to create a few chances of their own, a few 1-2s and they were in our D and made it 6-2 before Dave Gilbert found Chris Wardale by the p spot to deflect in for a 7-2 lead and then Peterborough won their 5th short corner of the day and they made it 7-3. Cameron Cooke singled handedly scored the 11th and final goal of the day with a turnover, run and spin to open up a lovely reverse hit. Final score 8-3. A great display Sunday, back to some of our best hockey. Clinical in the D, superb quick passing & leading interplay. Started well and stayed on top throughout! The boys will look to ride that wave into Barford this week, big effort to be ready to face a former div 1 side who will not give us time and space and will punish each and every mistake we make.