ACHC Ladies 3's managed to find Tilsley Park and Rover Oxford for their 2nd league game of the season. The day got even better with another classy win, 11-0 this time, with chips and bread in the bar to finish!!!

Stewart scored 2 from the left wing in the first 10 minutes of play and A&C dominated the first half with some superb individual and team skills. They used the width well and perseverance with the short corner routines paid dividends. Sanders, Carter and Brand scoring cracking goals from the edge of the D. Mo Burnley in goal 'got an assist' with a superb clearance from an almost impenetrable defence made up of Lacey, Brewer, Smith and Hardy. Further goals from Carter, Yaworsky and Brand (who was on a mission! - scoring 4) resulted in a half time score of 9-0

The opposition packed their defence in the second half which dramatically slowed the game and only allowed 2 more goals. Fay Rider celebrating her 18th with a score on the pitch and who knows what that evening!! She was given the bumps and suitably embarrassed. Maximum effort was demonstrated by the team with Schelshorn, Brand and Yaworsky needing treatment for multiple blisters and foot injuries from manager Val. Superstars eat your heart out.

This was an excellent and very promising start to the season - bring it on!!!

FIREWORKS NIGHT
There is a Curry and Fireworks night at the club on the 8th November - tickets are available from your Captains so please bring money to training or this weekends matches to buy your tickets (£10 each and includes curry).

RUGBY WORLD CUP SPECIAL
GUINNESS ONLY £2.00!
Yes, you've guessed it, a slight bit of over ordering! Anyway over the weekend Guinness will be served at £2.00 a pint.

MIXED HOCKEY
Warren and Annie would like to hear from anyone that would like to play Mixed on Sunday. They are playing at 2.15pm at ICI Paints in Maidenhead. You can contact them at the addresses below. If you can't make this week but would like to play a some stage then please contact them anyway.

Warren.Scott@uk.fid-intl.com annie.brothwell@lgim.co.uk

Miss Chipperfield used all her old teaching skills for our team talk (interesting charts, motivational speech etc) but it was probably not a talk generally adopted by the England International Team - we were to play with "2 triangles at the front" and (I quote) a "crumpled smiley face" at the back. I thought she was referring to me personally but was relieved that was actually to be our defence formation!!

It seemed to work. We applied relentless pressure in the first half and were delighted when a penalty corner resulted in old Kitto whacking in a fantastic goal with one of her wondrous sweepy things. Great elation. Sadly it was disallowed, not brought quite outside the "D". Undeterred, we remained impenetrable in defence and launched attack after attack. We missed open goals, we missed the post by millimetres over and over and had numerous goalmouth scraps.

0:0 at half time. In the second half, against the run of play, we quickly went a goal down, when a (rare) penalty corner shot was saved by Helen but went in on the rebound. We fought on, and when it seemed our efforts were going to be fruitless Judith finally struck in a belter, followed closely by another. A well deserved 2:1 victory. Congratulations Judith but all the "triangles" deserve credit for exciting runs, perseverance and some genuinely skilful hockey. Well done, too, to the "crumpled smiley face brigade" at the back for woman-marking manfully and trusting in each other generally.

Great attitude within the team, and fantastic support from many people including Sue B. who was resting her hand but not her vocal chords (get well soon), and some very supportive parents. Big thanks to Jo and Catherine for great advice and motivation, and last, but by no means least, to Mike for umpiring impeccably as ever. Newbury, here we come...

Triangles: Ruth, Judith, Felicity, Lorna, Steph, Emma, and Megan.
Smiley Face: Helen K, Helen M, Helen J, Helen D, He... whoops, carried away.. Caroline and Andrea