So after a busy Saturday of Korfball in which we were very successful at the Ed City fresher’s tournament it was time to get back to the business of the league! For the first time this season we not only had more boys than girls but we also had\u00a0MIA (Jean, ps Happy Birthday)\u00a0<\/strong>who found it easier to get the bus to the game then he did the train.<\/p>\n Dale<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ben<\/strong>\u00a0were the first to join\u00a0Captain Eager<\/strong>\u00a0on the side-lines to watch the third most important game of the day hoping that the rest of the team would hurry up so we could get a warm up in before our first match. Of course being first we were able to take our favourite shirt numbers leaving\u00a0MIA<\/strong>\u00a0to wear number 6, which provided mild amusement in the changing rooms.<\/p>\n Competition for\u00a0Louise’s<\/strong>\u00a0Dick of the Day award started as early as the warm up with\u00a0Ben<\/strong>\u00a0nearly managing to destroy Ed City’s basketball hoop \ufffd let’s hope they didn’t hear that\ufffd!<\/p>\n Our third match of the season was about to start and although it was Ed Uni 1s we were full of confidence from Saturdays outstanding performance and relishing the chance to prove ourselves to avoid humiliating socials! We went down two goals early on but\u00a0Felliott<\/strong>\u00a0popped up with a nice mid-range effort to give him his first competitive goal and to give us some much needed cheering and a chance to pull ourselves back into the game.<\/p>\n Mary<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Nicola<\/strong>\u00a0were putting on stout defensive displays and\u00a0Felliott<\/strong>\u00a0was intercepting every ball that came his way. We slipped to 3-1 behind from a free pass before\u00a0Felliott<\/strong>\u00a0popped up for his second of the day and the season and again put us within touching distance.<\/p>\n Half-time 3-1 down and\u00a0Coach Will<\/strong>\u00a0had already had his first Korfgasm of the season from a brilliant, competitive display from the whole team. The focus was on doing the same again after the break and\u00a0Ben, Charis<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0MIA<\/strong>\u00a0came on to freshen up the team for the second half.<\/p>\n We let another early goal slip but the battle of the day between\u00a0Graham<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The Man<\/strong>\u00a0continued over from yesterday’s semi-final and today\u00a0The Man<\/strong>\u00a0managed to slip past to get us back to 4-3 as we continued to stay toe to toe with our 1sts.<\/p>\n An outstanding display from\u00a0Rebecca<\/strong>\u00a0and a valuable contribution from\u00a0Charis<\/strong>\u00a0kept the pressure on the opposition girls in the second half as we continued to make it hard for them to create chances and score goals. Unfortunately we could manage any more scores and the game fell away from us in the second half as it ended 9-3. We can be very proud of another great performance against (one of) the best team(s) in the league!<\/p>\n The second game always looked harder on paper for us to come away from the game with anything after Ed City 1s had already beaten Ed Uni 1s in the first game of the day. We knew cake was waiting us at the end so we gave it our all.<\/p>\n Louise<\/strong>\u00a0rallied the troops in her division (as usual!) and was in the face of her opposition girl as soon as the game started. We lost a couple of early goals to start with and were 4-0 down by the time\u00a0Louise<\/strong>(un)fortunately trapped her leg around\u00a0MIA<\/strong>\u00a0(I knew we should’ve left him at the bus stop!) causing\u00a0The Man\u00a0<\/strong>to remember that\u00a0fateful social<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hope it is all better now\u00a0Louise!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Half time came and we hadn’t managed a goal against a very strong Ed City team that we were still giving problems and by no means embarrassing ourselves. It was a strong performance and after the break we continued to come close to scoring.<\/p>\n The Man<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Felliott<\/strong>\u00a0came off the bench at the start of the second and began to cause problems for the Ed City team. To be honest I have no idea what the score was when\u00a0MIA<\/strong>\u00a0scored his first ever competitive goal in typical fashion from long-range but it was something to proud of as we continued our record of scoring in every game so far this season! Go Tigers!<\/p>\n Nicola<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Mary<\/strong>\u00a0continued their solid defence against two very experienced Ed City girls and we really kept the intensity up to final whistle where the score finished 14-1. A brave performance and we are now safe in the knowledge that we have played the 3 hardest games of the season!<\/p>\n Louise’s D**k of the Day Award<\/strong>\u00a0has been awarded to\u00a0MIA<\/strong>\u00a0for his contribution to Louise’s injury and his spectacular goal. Congratulations!<\/p>\n See you all at Nottingham on the 29th-31st?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-match-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/korfball.eusu.ed.ac.uk\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}