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Pool 1	Westbury 1		Westbury 2		Westbury 3		Westbury 4		Westbury 5
	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers
Westbury 1			0-0		0-0		0-2		1-0	Ogilvie
Westbury 2	0-0				0-0		0-0		3-1	Lipfriend 2 Tomlinson
Westbury 3	0-0		0-0				1-0	Ratcliffe P	0-0
Westbury 4	2-0	Watts Penny	0-0		0-1				1-0	Beesley
Westbury 5	0-1		1-3	?	0-0		0-1

Pool 2	Westbury 6		Westbury 7		Westbury 8		Westbury 9		Westbury 10
	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers
Westbury 6			1-1	Kemp	1-0	Minchin E	0-1		0-0
Westbury 7	1-1	Cockram			0-2		1-1	?	0-0
Westbury 8	0-1		2-0	Wilkins ?			0-0		1-0	Jacobs
Westbury 9	1-0	Chave	1-1	Cutts	0-0				1-2	Longden M
Westbury 10	0-0		0-0		0-1		2-1	Roper Griffin S


9th & 10th	Team 5 v Team 7		0-1	?
7th & 8th	Team 1 v Team 6	Ogilvie Wornell Farrell	3-0
5th & 6th	Team 3 v Team 10	Armsby	1-2	Palmer M Harvey
3rd & 4th	Team 2 v Team 9		0-1	Yuill
Final	Team 4 v Team 8		0-0

The 10th annual club day was blessed with the first warm day for many months and everyone went home tanned and exhausted after the best ever turn out by Westbury and Westberries players. With slightly shorter games to accommodate 10 teams for the first time, goals were at a premium. The event opened with Pete Farrel presenting the award for Badger's top scorer to Zeyn Mulla and Badger's player of the year to David Parry. Just before the final Club Captain Chris Poulsom presented Ed Minchin with the Young Player of the Year trophy.

In pool 1 on the sand Team 1 was the 'Captains' team. They earned a 1-0 win against Team 5 with a goal from Duncan Ogilvie, but lost 2-0 to Team 4. Their two remaining games were drawn 0-0 giving them 5 points and a place in the 7th and 8th play-off. Team 2 also played in three goal less draws. Their high spot came when the goalkeepers were rested and they knocked in three goals against Team 5 who replied with one of their own. Ben Lipfriend cleverly jinked his way around defenders to claim two of them. Chris Tomlinson, having injected a short corner, picked up the ball when it ran loose to him and worked his way past a couple of defenders to slip the ball in. Team 2 finished unbeaten on 6 points to go forward to contest the 3rd and 4th place final. Team 3 had an identical record to Team 2, with three 0-0 draws, whilst their win was by 1-0 against Team 4 when Peter Ratcliffe netted. They qualified for the 5th and 6th place final. Team 4 were the winners of pool 1. They won 2-0 against Team 1 with Terry Watts and Penny on target, 1-0 verses Team 5 when Richard Beesley notched the only goal. Bees was carrying a sore foot from stopping the ball on the sideline in the very first game, forgetting he was only wearing his flip-flops and not heavy duty Doc Martins! A 0-0 draw with Team 3 meant that despite losing 1-0 to Team 3 they had sufficient points to reach the final. Team 5 earned a 0-0 draw with Team 3, and despite having an equal part of the game against Team 2 they finished losing 3-1. Their matches against Teams 1 and 4 ended in single goal defeats. Pete Murphy and Jon Jarvis shared the goal keeping duty on the sand and the paucity of goals was down to their goal keeping skills with many fine saves made and a few pounds of weight shed during the course of the day.

Pool 2 on the water Team 6 had a mixed bag of results. Ed Minchin scored when he poached the only goal of the game from a goalmouth scramble in the 1-0 win v Team 8. Owen Kemp struck from the edge of the D to equalise verses Team 7 in a 1-1 draw. They also shared the points with Team 10 in a 0-0 draw, but fell to a solitary goal in the match with Team 9. Their 5 points qualified them for the 7th and 8th place final, but had they avoided defeat against Team 9 they would have made the final, a reflection of how close this pool was in terms of results. Team 7 drew three of their games. 1-1 v Team 6 when Phil Cockram scored a follow up from a short corner, flicking the ball in at the right hand post after worming his way past several defenders. They fell to a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Team 8 to finish with three points and a place in the 9th and 10th play-off. Team 8 won the pool with two wins, a draw and a defeat. A 2-0 win v Team 7 came courtesy of goals from Terry Watts and Penny., They earned a 1-0 win in the deciding game in the pool against Team 10. A short corner strike from Michelle Jacobs deciding the issue. They drew 0-0 with Team 9 and lost 1-0 to Team 6 and had a total of 7 points to top the pool. Team 9 lost their opening game verses Team 10 with Max Longden getting a late goal in a 2-1 loss. A 1-1 draw with Team 7 thanks to a Chris Cutts tap in and a 0-0 draw with Team 8 was followed by a late goal from Justin Chave who volleyed in at the back post a team mate's looping shot. They reached the 3rd and 4th place final with 5 points. Team 10 opened with a 2-1 win against Team 9. Gary Roper scored a break-away goal and Sarah Griffiths hit a short corner, a sort of 'bouncing bomb' that cleverly deceived the defenders on the line. Then came two 0-0 draws against Teams 7 and 8. Their final game needed just a draw to get to the final. This close pool finished with them losing 1-0 to Team 6 which put them in the 5th and 6th place play-off with 5 points. Special thanks to the two ladies who kept goal and excelled themselves with some excellent saves.

The play-offs saw a lot of tired legs, but still a lot of good hockey and hard work. It was good to see a great turn out by senior men and ladies, but the bonus of the day was the young players who supported the day, some like Harry Jepson, having their first games in adult hockey.

9th & 10th place: Team 7 edged this game with a single goal from one of their ladies against Team 5

7th & 8th place: Team 6 fell behind to an early goal. Alistair Jacklin said they threw 'caution to the wind' in their efforts to get back in to the game and conceded two more goals. Team 1 the Captains' Team wrapped it up with goals from Dave Wornell, Pete Farrell and Duncan Ogilvie. Duncan did contrive to miss a sitter (the source of this information was Alistair), which would have made him leading scorer on the day!

5th & 6th place: The opening goal for Team 10 came when Martin Palmer slapped in a right wing cross, much to the disgust of Jon Jarvis in the Team 3 goal! Duncan Armsby squared the game midway through and then had a chance to win it, but his half volley was blazed high and wide, when scoring a goal looked the easier option! In the final seconds Sarah Griffiths thumped a short corner onto the post and Mike Harvey, who had injected, pounced to turn in the winner for Team 10 seconds before the final whistle blew.

3rd & 4th place: Team 9 claimed the third place spot when Alex Yuill scored the only goal of a closely fought game.

Final: Teams 4 and 8 slugged out the final like two heavy weight boxers, or maybe two base line tennis players. Chances were at a premium, and when it looked like a goal was going in Carol covered her keeper by clearing off the line. On the whistle the score was 0-0 and both sides settled for finishing joint first.

Once again Club Day was a massive success. Thanks to Dave Wornell for organising the day and to everyone who umpired to make the day thoroughly enjoyable. The comedy umpiring award must go to Mssrs Openshaw Senior and Junior, with young Openshaw sitting on dad's shoulders and at one stage blowing his whistle for him! Well done to everyone who took part, with a good turn out of other halves and children to make it a family day.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 27/3/10
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
Veterans	v O Bristolians	H	Friendly	3-2	Millman S Webster Palmer M
Mace's Maulers	v Tezza's Terriors	H	Friendly	0-0
Tezza's Terriors	v Mace's Maulers	H	Friendly	0-0
Mace's Maulers	v Slidder's Sluggers	H	Friendly	0-1
Slidder's Sluggers	v Mace's Maulers	H	Friendly	1-0	Chave
Tezza's Terriors	v Slidder's Sluggers	H	Friendly	2-2	Minchin E 2
Slidder's Sluggers	v Tezza's Terriors	H	Friendly	2-2	Chave Wanklyn
Match comments
Veterans: The Veterans had their return game against O Bristolians at Coombe Dingle. There was a lot of quality about the early movement of players and the ball, despite s few sore heads from the night before. Tony Webster engineered the opening goal, his pass was converted by Steve Millman in a 'full on' dive (like footballers do when they score). Steve made contact with the ball at the end of his slide to divert it in. O Bs countered with an equaliser. Pete Farrell made the Champaigne moment of the game with his superb pick up of a flighted 50 metre pass that arced through the air. One or two passes went astray, but there was still good pressure on the visitors goal. Alan Sparks made great efforts to control an underpaced pass to the right. The O Bs defender recovered the ball, turned and made a perfect pass on behalf of Alan to the unmarked Tony Webster, who drilled the ball past the exposed keeper. Tony called for improved consistency in the passing in the second half. The comedy moment of the game came at the start of the second half when the Westbury centre forward hit the ball to the opposition on the restart, but cleared all the defenders with a huge hit for a 16. Umpire Steve Puetz gave a comedy green card for unsportsman like conduct! There was a lot of effort from both sides with chances being created at both ends. A Steve Millman right wing cross found Martin Palmer at the near post, but he failed to make contact with a huge gap at the near post inviting a goal. John Ludley was lurking at the back post and his shot hit the inside of the left post and rolled to Martin who had a simple tap in to atone for his error mere seconds before. O Bs in contrast had hit the post once in each half, but the ball ran both times to Westbury defenders. O Bs did score on a breakaway to make it a tense last fifteen minutes. There were several very good scoring chances for Westbury to wrap the game up, but each time the O Bs goalkeeper pulled off great saves. The final whistle blew for a deserved and hard earned Westbury victory. Thanks to Steve and Tom Counsell for umpiring.
Mace's Maulers v Tezza's Terriors was the first game of a post club dinner triangular tournament, for the sturdier club members, able to wield a stick after the excesses of the night before. The game was fought mainly in the midfield and a 0-0 draw was the final outcome.
Mace's Maulers v Slidder's Sluggers: Game two (each game being 25 minutes in duration) was a well contested game, with a lot of good play from both sides. Paul Clark playing in an unfamiliar left back role, pulled off the goal line save of the game (and proably the season). With an open goal at his mercy Nathan Walkey having gone round the keeper flicked the ball goalwards. Paul appeared from nowhere and having a 'good eye' batted the ball away denying Nathan a certain goal. With the match heading for a second 0-0 finish, Justin Chave showed his class with a well struck winner for Slider's Sluggers.
Tezza's Terriors v Tezza's Terriors: The final game saw Tezza's Terriors score the first goal, well taken by Ed Minchin following up a team mate's shot to score. The game swung the other way when first Justin Chave scored for Slider's Sluggers, and then Justin rounded the keeper, flicked the ball at goal and Josh Wanklyn edged it in from centemetres out just to make sure (a lad with that predatory instinct in front of gaol)! Tezza's Teriors wouldn't give up and deservedly snatched a late equaliser from the stick of Ed Minchin. 33 players took part and it was good to see Paul Mason, Terry Watts, Duncan Armsby encourage the next generation of young players in David Parry, Zeyn Mulla and Pete Ratcliffe. With Dave Dineley, Max Longden and Ed Minchin who have all played first team hockey this season, the younger lads can see what can be achieved. Well done to everyone who took part. NB these intra-club goals have NOT been added to the goalchart!

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 20/3/10
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Exeter Univ III	A	Premier 2	3-3	Thomas J 2 Roper
2^nd XI	v Bristol Univ II	H	North Div 1	5-5	Moon 2 Haslett Hutton Armsby
3^rd XI	v Mendip	A	Avon Div	4-2	Hill Beesley Walkey Millman S
Wanderers	v Yate II	H	Br & NW Som Div1	1-2	Sammes
Wizards	v Weston-Super-Mare II	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	3-0	Pope Ratcliffe P Glorney
Warriors	v Yate IV	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	5-5	Hewitt 2 Goodman 2 Parker
Widgets	v Yate II	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	4-3	Webster 2 Harvey Alger T
Badgers	v Bristol & West	A	Bristol Badgers
Match comments
1^st XI: A battling first team performance saw them share 6 goals with Exeter University and come home with a point to finish 6th out of 12 in Premier 2.
2^nd XI : Neil Moon was under tremendous pressure to pass the all time second team goal record. He needed 2 goals against runners up Bristol University to pass Phil Curnock's long standing 102 goal record. At 4-0 down any chance of a result was looking increasingly slim, but the seconds stuck at it and Phil Haslett struck a short corner just on the stroke of half time. Neil then bagged his two goals to achieve his personal milestone and give the team the belief that they could match their promoted opponents. The score was at this stage 5-3 to the students. The last 15 minutes saw great Westbury pressure and Chris Hutton snapped up a chance from close range to make it a one goal deficit. With time nearly up a short corner was neatly deflected by Duncan Armsby to equalise. A stirling effort from the seconds who must now regroup in Division 2 North and look to bounce straight back.
3^rd XI : The thirds closed their season with a win at Mendip by 4-2. They too will be playing in a lower division next season and will want to return to the Avon Division where they have had a good late run, but suffered relegation as a result of early season defeats and the difficulty in reaching the safety threshold in a division where too many teams are demoted because of issues in higher divisions! Rich Hill, Richard Beesley, Nathan Walkey and Stve Millman shared the goals.
Wanderers: The Wanderers were also playing a promoted Yate team and fought hard to get a result. Yate had all the opening play, but then came a spell when Tom Sammes, Pete Farrell and Tom Colquhoun were denied goals by good goalkeeping. At half time the game was still locked at 0-0. Yate scored twice to put them in a strong position. Tom Sammes banged in an excellent goal and Yate had to work hard in defence to prevent Westbury from gaining an equaliser.
Wizards: The Wizards rounded off their season with a fine win at Weston-Super-Mare. James Pope, Pete Ratcliffe and Liam Glorney were on target as the Wizards finished in 4th place. f they hadn't taken the 3 points on offer in this game they would have been three places lower and Weston would have leap-frogged them, so that achievement shows what a good result this was.
Warriors: The Warriors opened up an impressive 3 goal lead against a Yate side who looked the team more in control of the game. Simon Hewit turned in a James Goodman pass for number one. James then had two successive shots at the keeper's pads, before volleying in the third rebound for a great goal. Sam Parker then made it three with a well taken goal. The call was to protect the lead in the second half. Yate however had other thoughts and scored a minute into the second half and then not long later. Yate took over the game and apart from James Goodman, the midfield were stretched to running and covering. Yate scored twice more to lead 4-3. The Warriors then stepped up their game and a clever dummy by Duncan Ogilvie fooled the Yate keeper and the ball ran nicely for Simon Hewitt to tap in for 4-4. Then came more goal mouth action and and Andy Parsonage had a shot that rebounded off the pads to James Goodman, who slotted it through a crowd of players for 5-4. The final action of the game was a Yate short corner and to the delight of Yate and the disappointment of the Warriors they scored to make it 5-5. Joe Petch played well in goal including one stop with his helmet that bounced back to the edge of the D.
Widgets: Dave Holliday reports: What a way to end to the season!! Yate "B" already Winners of our League ended their season with just 2 defeats and we beat them both times!!! Truly great performance by the guys. Team:- Jon Jarvis, Chris Tomlinson, Simon Johnson, Brian Nichols, Phil Simon, Austin Sheppard, Tim Lawrence, Dave Holliday, Tom Alger, Gareth Nichols, Josh Wanklyn, Peter Thompson, Tony Webster, Mike Harvey. 3 - 0 up at half time, pegged back to 3 - 2, then 4 - 2, finally 4 - 3. Scorers Webster 2, Harvey, Alger. Highlight - Jon Jarvis finding imaginary patch of ice for his Bambi impression - fortunately Tim on hand to prevent Yate scoring an easy tap in. Prior to that Tim made brilliant run into their D to set up Mike for our first goal. In fact all our goals were following slick moves around the pitch; great to see everyone keen to receive the pass and lay it off. Loads of enthusiasm, brilliant team effort (again), and once again a thoroughly enjoyable game to play in. Thanks to Chris Cocks and Tom Sammes for umpiring (very well). AND thanks to everyone who has played some part in making the Widgets season so enjoyable and successful. We ended up 5th in the League (out of 11); Played 20, won 11, lost 9, goals for 49, goals against 49, points 33. Probably the highest position in the league the Widgets have ever attained but more importantly the team provided the basis for the proper development of our youngsters with several who started the season with us now playing higher up the Club, just reward for a massive investment of time and effort by many people to ensure that this principle was to be achieved. Thanks then to all, brilliant season, massively enjoyable and fun. Great to see hockey being played with smiles. Big celebration next Friday then we start all over again with Summer League Devils and winter Badgers looking to provide further youngsters who will be the backbone of the Widgets for next season. The Widgets for the first time ever, finished higher than the Warriors. The late Yate equaliser in the earlier game enabled the Widgets to overhaul their points total in the last match of the day.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 13/3/10
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Exeter Hornets	H	Premier 2	1-3	Thomas J
2^nd XI	v Lydney	A	North Div 1	5-1	Longden M Cockram Smith Haslett Moon
3^rd XI	v N Wilts	H	Avon Div	0-4
Wanderers	v Firebrands V	A	Br & NW Som Div1	3-2	Sammes Mulla Taylor T
Wizards	v O Bristolians IV	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	2-3	Green Sparks
Warriors	v Yate III	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	0-4
Widgets	v S Glos III	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	6-1	Newington 2 Parker Sheppard Webster Thompson
Badgers	v O Bristolians	H	Bristol Badgers	2-0	Mulla Pardington
Match comments
1^st XI: The 1sts staged a come back from 2-0 down with a Joe Thomas goal at home to Exeter Hornets, but finished losing 3-1 with a late goal from the visitors.
2^nd XI : The seconds recorded their best result of the season winning 5-1 at Lydney. Max Longden, Phil Cockram, Reston Smith, Phil Haslett and Neil Moon were on target. Neil's goal was his one hundred and first for the seconds, having reached his ton in a losing game a couple of weeks ago. He is now one goal behind all time leading second team scorer Phil Curnock. Can he score next week to reach this milestone?
3^rd XI : The thirds had a double disaster less than 2 minutes into the game. N Wilts had a two on one with goalie Martin Hicks, they scored and Martin went to ground in agony. A paramedic wa called and took him to A&E. Nick Coates took over in goal and the thirds were 2-0 down at half time when I left. Result to follow!
Wanderers: A 3-2 win was secured against Firebrands couresy of goals from Tom Sammes, Zeyn Mulla and Tom Taylor.
Wizards:
Warriors: The Warriors second half of the season has mirrored last season when they lost only once to top to champions O Bs. This time it was table topping Yate who were the opponents and again the final score was 4-0. Yate secured the championship with their closest rivals losing. It was always going to be a tough ask to get a result. The defence worked hard throughout the game to keep out a very skillful side. For twenty minutes it was a very even contest in midfield. Andy Pound was called into action several times and made a great diving stop to keep Yate from scoring. Ten minutes either side of the interval, Yate took control of the game with two goals before and two after the break. It was fifty minutes into the game before Westbury had their first shot at goal from Liam Glorney. Playing four across the middle, there still didn't seem a lot of space for the midfield to prise open the home defence. Mike Harvey's trickery up front went unrewarded. The team kept going and despite a lot of home pressure held them to a respectable four goal advantage. If heads had dropped it would have been many more.
Widgets: Dave Holliday reports; Won 6 - 1. Scorers Newington (2), Parker, Thompson, Webster, Sheppard. The Widgets used to be a "Youth Development" team. Notwithstanding the obvious difficulties of getting the juniors to play when they have school commitments which take priority, we are fast becoming the "Temple Meads" side of Westbury Hockey Club - a place where complete strangers often meet on a Saturday afternoon!!! Once again a much changed team with 3 guys playing for us for the first time and several others "passing through". Thus on Saturday we put in a very un-Widget like performance. With lack of familiarity amongst the players, gone was the crisp passing at pace, the one-twos', the running into space to receive the ball, the vision, the team work. Instead, against a very poor South Glos team, it was often down the middle dross, with no imagination, vision or efffective passing. Enough said, a win is a win after all with several highlights. Simon Johnson played well at emergency right back, Austin Sheppard was magnificent actually calming people down when tempers got frayed , Tony Webster celebrated his 800th!!! game for Westbury with a goal, and Peter Thompson scored his first goal for the Club with a screamer into the roof of the net. Last League game next Saturday - against Yate "B" - we will need to get back to our best and hopefully end the season on a high.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 6/3/10
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Swindon	H	Premier 2	1-0	Hancock
2^nd XI	v Yate	A	North Div 1	2-4	Cutts Hutton
3^rd XI	v Swindon II	A	Avon Div	2-2	Beesley Taylor M
Wanderers	v Bristol UWE III	H	Br & NW Som Div1	1-4	Taylor T
Wizards	v Imperial	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	3-3	Whitehead 2 Sparks
Warriors	v S Glos III	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	5-1	Ogilvie 4 Colton
Badgers	v N Somerset	H	Bristol Badgers	0-1
Match comments
1^st XI: Probably as hard a game to play as we have had all season. Again we were completely dominant from the word go, controlled play yet somehow managed to let our heads drop in the first half. Everyone held together well and we went in 0-0 at half time with our guests under no illusions that they were not on top. A quick reminder that we had to keep cohesion in the beginning stages of the second half in the shape of a few short corners from Swindon, well dealt with by a Westbury team growing slowly in confidence. The game progressed and became more open in spells then reverting to type as both teams became cagey, not wanting to be the team to allow the other the break that would settle the match down. Then we decided we had better get the game back and spent 25 minutes camped in the Swindon 23. Nothing came and nothing came, umpiring decisions came and went. Finally after about 3 hours, and with a seeming 3 hours still to play, Tim Hancock managed to convert our millionth attack and Westbury recieved the rewards for 60 odd minutes of continued pressure and faith in their abilities. Massively satisfying to see us grind this result out, these are the wins that define champions, it was not pretty, it was not flowing, but it was 3 points. We cannot win every game 5-0. Excellent.
2^nd XI : The seconds lost 4-2 at Yate with Chris Cutts and Chris Hutton getting the goals..
3^rd XI : The thirds earned a point from a 2-2 draw at Swindon. The talking point after the game was Matt Taylor's goal. As Matt described it he hit it hard, it caught the edge of a defensive stick, that shifted the ball upwards, hitting a defender on the shoulder before finding the top of the net.
Wanderers: Pete Farrell writes: Unfortunately a 4-1 defeat caused pretty much by disjointed play and too many of us trying to win the game on our own. Not enough short sharp passing, holding onto the ball too long (myself included) and attempts at playing the killer pass meant that we turned over possession far more often than was healthy. We started brightly and took a 1-0 lead from a well executed short. Tom Taylor finding the top of the backboard with a fizzing strike. We thought we had secured a second in similar fashion that would have made it 2 zip, Tom wheeling away, arms aloft but as his celebratory "Yes!" echoed round the Dingle it became apparent that it had been disallowed for crossing the line above 18 inches. Umpire Krebs on the ball with his micrometer ruled it out with not a sign of dissent from the Wanderers, though this was not matched by our disappointment. Decision accepted we got on with the game. Bristol UWE put together some good hockey but it was disappointing that they scored with such ease, partially due to the big hole that had started to appear in our midfield. This is not a criticism per se as at times we had 6 forwards on the pitch some of whom were pressed into action in the middle of the park. Our natural instinct to get forward was matched by our equally natural instinct not to make it back into position when play broke down, and to a certain extent this made the counter attack relatively easy for the oppo. That said they did what we failed to do, and passed the ball simply around us to the player in space. A learning point for all of us! In the second half we had opportunities to score but couldn't quite find that little bit of space in open play to make them count. Next week Firebrands D - always a keenly contested affair and something to look forward to! Bring it on!
Wizards: The Wizards shared six goals at Imperial and came back with a point. Alan Sparks notes: A 3-3 draw. A game that the Wizards had the possesion and potential to win comfortably, but in the end it needed 2 goals in last 10 minutes to salvage a draw from 3-1 down
Warriors: The Warriors were well worth their win playing some good hockey against S Glos. Duncan Ogilvie celebrated his new job, by scoring four times, having one disallowed and hitting the post. The first came when Simon Hewitt whacked a first class cross from the right that Duncan clipped goalwards. The goalkeeper saved, but Duncan used good footwork to reposition himself to tuck in the loose ball. His second came from a Martin Palmer cross come shot from the right, Duncan tapping in at the back post. The third came from a ball banged into the D and a clever deflection eluding the keeper. The Warriors lost Martin Palmer to a torn calf muscle as Duncan made it three. The second half saw the Warriors using the wings well with Mark Crofts and Andy Cooper using the ball well. Andy Parsonage in his second game was finding his touch. Mark Colton scored number four from a short corner that he topped, but had enough movement on the ball to deceive the defenders on the line. Duncan added his fourth from another intelligent ball into the D, again clipping it past the keeper. S Glos did get a goal when Mark Crofts couldn't unleash his shot from a Westbury attack and the visitors broke away with a four on none - well jsut Jon Jarvis to beat. Jon did his best to shut all four out, but a slip to the left led to an inevitable goal. The quality of hockey was a big improvement on the last game and takes the Warriors to a seven game unbeaten run.
Bdgers: Duncan Ogilvie reports of the game at N Somerset.: In terms of possession and territory, Westbury should have come out of this game comfortable winners. With Zeyn terrorizing the opposition down the right with his pace, good link play in midfield and composed defending, surely there was only going to be one winner. It was therefore a surprise to go in one down at half time thanks to a powerful lob from a short corner that flew by the keeper's head. Still the mood was positive and the second half started with a belief that the goals would surely come. However a combination of last ditch defending and a tendancy to push the ball onto the last defenders stick, meant that the goal that would surely open the flood gates never came.

Goal Chart: After 27/3/10
19	Webster,
18	Taylor T,
16	Thomas J,
14	Palmer M,
12	Cutts, Moon, Walkey,
11	Ogilvie, Goodman,
10	Brown, Mulla, Parker, Millman S,
9	Thomas P, Chave,
8	Sparks,
7	Yuill, Pearce-Smith, Harris Dave, Tucker, Newington,
6	Poulsom, Cooper Andrew, Roper, Beesley, Pope,
5	Holmes W, Wanklyn, Nichols G, Farrell, Taylor M, Longden M, Hewitt, Colton,
4	Richardson, Cockram, Armsby, Sammes, Alger T,
3	Puetz, Kemp, Clark P, Holiday J, Holmes N, Watts, Edworthy, Fishley, Colquhoun, Butt, Blake, Crofts, Haynes P, Green, Haslett, Hutton, Ratcliffe P, Glorney,
2	Minchin E, Woodward, Dineley, Harris Dom, Barnes, Oldfield, Ash, Cooper Andy, Wornell, Hancock, Whitehead, Hill,
1	Cureton, Weale, Cranfield, Griffin, Greenslade, Smerald, Maydew, Harris Dave, Parker, Rees, Ludley, Slater N, Lipfriend, Frost J, Catchpole, Coates, Mason, Enderby, Ratcliffe D, Jepson, Elms, Geddes, Sheppard, Thompson, Pardington, Smith, Harvey,

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