Wandsworth A vs. Fairlands A: 39 - 64 (by Rach)

Q1: 11 - 20
An early 9.30am start for the A's this week and the ever present struggle of whether to wear long sleeves/leggings/ neither under our dresses was upon us once more. (author's personal note: very important to say leggings here and not pants as this means something different in the UK which I found out the hard way). We were slow to start with Fairlands getting a few goals up on us straight off the bat. Some good passages of play by WNC but also many unforced errors on our part, not helped by a slippy court surface and ball.

Q2: 20 - 35
Again some nice play with good mid court feeding in to the circle and accurate shooting when we had the chance. Our defence were putting up a good fight and turning over some great ball with the man-on-man three foot guard but we struggled to convert these turnovers. I was on the sideline at this point and lost about 5 minutes of my life thinking about the literal phrasing of Laura Mc yelling 'well in' when Leanne intercepted and tipped a ball well out of court ...

Q3: 28 - 50
Not a lot to say here - we struggled against their defence and made some silly errors ourselves which was frustrating. The boyfriend bench were suspiciously quiet and probably regretting their decision to come along to Cheam on a Saturday morning (shout out to Adam and Yousef - you da real MVP's).

Q4: 39 - 64
Some nice turnovers from our circle defence were moved well through the mid court and converted down the attacking end. A solid shooting game by Tabs saw her deservedly get both PP and POM. We lost this final quarter 11 - 14 and were happy to have held strong in the final 15 minutes.

Roll on next week!