With three
year 5's playing for the Cougars we felt today's game maybe
be under serious pressure as they're only used to playing
High Five netball, but how wrong we were. Once again, the
whole team pulled together and worked so well together. The
first quarter had us 2-0 up with some super defence play
from Darcey Lodge and Megan Cotton. They gave the Flames
attack no room for movement and hounded them throughout the
game. With a minor substitution in the second quarter I
brought on Olivia Scott who came on as Centre and
intercepted some lovely balls and created clever space round
the court. Phoebe Hardy backed her up nicely by grabbing a
handful of loose balls and feeding our attack back down the
court. By the third quarter and another substitution we
were tired and flagging somewhat and Flames took the lead by
about 4 goals. However, Hannah Martin fed accurately into
the shooters and again picked up lots of careless passes
from the opposition. Under pressure, we had another change
about and put Olivia into Goal Attack and with Jessica Hardy
managed to increase our goals with some lovely movement in
the semi circle. Olivia read the game beautifully and
created many chances for Jessica whose timing and movement
was spot on. Jess took a few chances and proved that under
pressure she performs brilliantly. At the final whistle, we
won the game 13-9. Thanks must go to the year 5's for
stepping in at the last minute. My player of the match must
go to Olivia Scott for all round play.