It was great to be back to playing hockey after a restful half term break and the girls were keen to get going again.
The seniors played a block fixture against St Ronan’s whilst the junior girls had their last inter-school matches of the season against The Mead.
1st Team Hockey
On Wednesday the 1st Team girls travelled to Marden for a tough away fixture against St. Ronan’s. The game was a closely-fought contest, with both teams creating early threats, but it was St. Ronan’s who first broke the deadlock following two unfortunate deflections from a short corner. Another short corner at the beginning of the second half saw the ball deflected into the top corner and Holmewood were down 2-0, but a change in structure saw them creating much more in attack and they soon made their way onto the scoresheet thanks to a superb through ball from Rosie and the usual excellent finishing by Saoirse. Francesca then scythed through the home defence to make it back-to-back goals and tie the game up at 2-2. The game was an end-to-end affair after this with both teams creating opportunities and Holmewood narrowly hanging on after two more penalty corners, but in the final seconds they earned on of their own and a good strike from Francesca was deflected off a defender’s stick over the head of the goalkeeper to snatch victory from the home side and leave Holmewood 3-2 to the good. A superb second-half performance from the Holmewood girls and a fabulous game of hockey for any neutral observers. Player of the game was Francesca. DB
2nd Team Hockey
The team displayed their very best hockey drawing 1-1 with strong St Ronans team. Our girls had many chances, attacking the goal with all their might, but we were kept out! We went into the first half a goal down. Piling on the pressure in the second half, it eventually payed off with a great goal! A great team performance girls, well done! DG
3rd Team Hockey
The 3rd team took a trip to Marden hockey club to face St Ronans. In a fiercely competitive game, we controlled the first half scoring 2 well worked goals. The second half saw us take our foot off the pedal, inviting a lot of pressure and allowing the opposition to score. The game ended 2-2, with strong performances all round. Well done girls! DG
4th Team Hockey
What a great game for these girls, they are an absolute delight to coach and always give 110% effort. They got the ball wide beautifully and kept attacking down the wings with the rest of the team making sure they were then getting themselves in the right positions by the goal for the pass into the D. We scored 4 great goals and were dominant throughout the pitch which was helped by making quick decisions. Huge well done to them all. TB
U11A Hockey
Following our match against a very strong St Ronan’s at the IAPS earlier this term, the girls knew it would be a battle and that we would have to pull out all of the stops against them. Well, the girls
really lived up to that expectation and fought incredibly hard to stop St Ronan’s play. The opposition scored a couple of soft goals early into the match, but as time went on our play improved and we really restricted their opportunities and had some great moments of attacking play. Although 3-0 down at half time, the girls held their heads high and were determined and positive at the start of the second half. We continued to battle and the play was more even. A mistake in defence gave them another goal, but Pippa made some fantastic saves throughout the match and we had chances, but just couldn’t convert them. It was a fantastic team effort with real passion and much improved from earlier in the term. Millie was nominated as girl of the game. Very well done girls as we look ahead to playing Hazelwood next week. SP
