Ladies 2A

L2A: Reading 13 Abingdon Pilgrims 1 15/04/2007

Reading 13 - 1 Abingdon Pilgrims

Once upon a time there was 13 little hockeyette’s (ive no idea where im going with this either!!!) Jen, Karen, Bee, Gembolina, Baps, Nooman, Kaffrin, Bev, Jez, Duracell Bunny, Nadia, Moosie & Laura! They all arrived one sunny morning at a quiet little place in a cute little village called Sonning. After a brief press photo shoot beforehand (well it is a story) ;o) they set about preparing themselves for the slightly large task of making sure they won the game thus winning the league title! A big task indeed!

Their visitors for the afternoon where a small but tough team called Abingdon Pilgrims! The pink people (also known as umpires) blew their whistles for the start of the match, Pilgrims started with the ball and Reading set about retrieving it almost instantly! The 11 Sky Blue dressed peeps worked well in the first half of the game but didn’t quite manage to put away as many goals as they perhaps should of done. Think it was only 4-0 at half time? Rubbish!!!

We did slightly fall off the rails briefly before half time with a rather shocking attempt at playing the sport we call hockey! Thankfully we got over that brief blip and made sure we made up for it in the second half! Which we sooooooo did )

When we reached the 6-0 mark not long after the second half resumed I had a little thought (I know im surprised when I think too!) we had reached the 99 goals scored this league season mark, was thinking well its going to finish like this isn’t it, just short of 100! Man I couldn’t of been more wrong!!! As the next 7 fired their way into the back of the net! With 1 reply from Pilgrims! Gosh, yet again found ourselves in serious goal scoring mood, with Moosie greedily taking 5 of them, to (I think) make her the leagues top scorer and who knows maybe club (though a stinky boy has probably robbed her to that title) !!! ;o)

The peeps in blue kept chucking everything (including the kitchen sink) at poor Abingdon from start to finish, unfortunately there was no stopping us on our day and even if they’d had 22 against us I think we where so determined we would of found our way through! Which is certainly no disrespect to Pilgrims, who certainly where gracious in defeat ) and they deserved their goal )

League Division 2 winning squad:

Jen ‘Bit to calm for my likeing’ Sawyer ,

Karen ‘also a bit to calm for my likeing’ Weekes,

Briony ‘glory hunter’ Newman,

Gemma-Louise ‘I know we are 12-0 up but we might not win’ Notman,

Nikki ‘I don’t want to strike the ball’ Jones,

Sue ’showboat’ Newman,

Katharine ‘commitment’ Evans,

Bev ‘I scored I scored’Thompson,

Izzy ‘Haribo’ Dodds,

Lucy ‘goal drought’ Scott,

Nadia ’superskillz’ Amin

Susan ’slow coach’ Castley

Laura ‘what time are the 1’s playing’ Mulcahy

Goals:

Lucy ‘Moosie’ Scott x 5 )

Nadia Amin x 2 )

Susan Castley x 2 )

Nikki ‘Baps’ Jones )

Bev Thompson )

Sue ‘Nooman’ Newman )

Laura Mulcahy )

Woman of the match: Lucy Scott.shocking!!! ;o)

Umpire: Alan Wade ) another fine performance from our fav ump )

Phrase of the day: “Now it doesn’t matter if its just 1-0 just as long as we win and play good hockey!!!”

Laura moment: God where do I start!!! What time are the 1’s playing Laura? ;o) Though Izzy (Jez) Dodds certainly had her fair few of special comments!!!

Crowd: Gosh what an amazing crowd, thank you sooooooo very much to everyone who “braved” the 25 degree heat to support us on Saturday. Will be forever greatful, was a real great day and so special to have everyone there to see it, the atmosphere defently lead us to too those last few goals, even if you all embarssed me!!! ;o) Much love and big hugs

A relieved and shattered Gembolina xxx xxx xxx

P.S. Division 1 bring it on!!!!!!!!! )