Netball: Bedfords 23 - QEGs 8

Weather = Wet / Cold / Raining / Freezing!

Positions played = WA x3 / GK x1

Skegness ladies hockey team secure their first win of the season - Skegness Standard

Taken from this weeks paper, regarding last weeks match.

SKEGNESS travelled to Lincoln this week with high hopes of their first win of the season against a struggling Lincoln's 2nds team.

Hockey East League
Lincoln 2nds 0
Skegness Ladies 5

Skegness dominated the first 15 minutes of the half, leading to many golden opportunities for the Skegness forwards, including a diving shot made by Amanda Black, which was just kicked away by the Lincoln goalkeeper. Unfortunately none of the goal attempts were successful, and Lincoln was able to pressure the Skegness defence with a few chances of their own; none of which got past goalkeeper Vicky Thurston.

Within minutes of being back on the pitch after half time, player of the match Amy Rutter opened the scoring after intercepting a Lincoln sideline pass, and leaving herself in a one-on-one situation with the goalkeeper, to which she struck the ball in the bottom right corner.

This goal provided Skegness with the confidence they needed, and five minutes later their second goal was scored by Abbi Emerson as she pushed the ball into the goal on receiving a pass from Rutter.
As Skegness began to dominate, Lincoln really felt the pressure and began to make mistakes; one leading to an interception by Skegness which was then passed to Black, whose first half efforts on goal were finally rewarded by a strike past the keeper, to score Skegness' third goal.

The fourth goal of the match came from top goal scorer Rutter, who on receiving the ball, quickly turned and hit it skilfully into the corner of the goal in one swift movement.

The final goal of the match was scored by defender Lara Potts who struck a fantastic shot past the keeper to secure Skegness' first win of the season.

Team: Keely Blakey, Chantelle Farrell, Amy Rutter, Olivia Stephenson, Kate Tyler, Debbie Skipworth, Amanda Black, Abbi Emerson, Lara Potts, Pauline Forman, Vicky Thurston, Emma Shelbourn, Jilly Robson.

Hockey: Skegness 1 - Bourne 2nds 2

Skegness battled at a cold home match against 3rd from bottom Bourne 2nds. After having a poor first half, Skegness dominated the second with many chances on goal. Unlucky result - we deserved at least a draw.

Skegness remain 2nd from bottom, with one match remaining of the first half of the season.

~~~~~~~~~ Match Report ~~~~~~~~~

Skegness pipped at the post in closely fought match

Skegness played at home this week against Bourne's second team buoyed by their first win of the season in the 5-0 thrashing of Lincoln 2nds last week.

From the first whistle the game was a close fought affair with Bourne only just taking the honours and establishing a measure of domination through the use of their very skilful attackers.

This high level of skill allowed for Bourne's first goal just 15 minutes into the half, when one attacker put herself into a good shooting position, allowing them to go 1-0 up after a powerful strike hit the backboard of the goal.At half time Skegness didn't feel as though a loss for them would fairly represent the game, and so went back onto the pitch with even more determination than before, in hope of changing the score. This attitude was evident as much more pressure was put on the Bourne defence and Skegness had many good chances all of which went unrewarded. The Bourne attackers however were not fazed by this and proceeded to go two goals up when another shot on goal got past the Skegness keeper.

Fortunately, Skegness were not dispirited and had not lost their desire, in particular player of the match Chantelle Farrell who scored Skegness' only goal of the match; sweeping the ball into the goal after receiving a pass inside the "D" from veteran Pauline Forman.

Skegness continued to press forward searching for their second goal, however this was not to be and the game's final score was 2-1.

Players: Amy Rutter, Abbi Emerson, Olivia Stephenson, Chantelle Farrell, Kate Tyler, Pauline Forman, Debbie Skipworth, Lara Potts, Amanda Black, Jilly Robson, Emma Shelbourn, Vicky Thurston, Lisa Cumberworth.

Skegness Netball League: Win

Bedford's (My Team) Win. Against ...... (Dont know!!! Hee hee) The red and black team! Results and more information to come!

Information from last weeks game.
K&S Alford 44 v Bedford 15

Player of the Match:
Paula Hill (K&S Alford),
Sarah Jane Smith (Bedfords)

Very embrassing - Alford only had 6 players!

Round 3 Deadline - Rowing

After the Round 3 Deadline. I am currently 9th out of 39. This month is the 5k distance. Not looking forward to next month with the 10k but it will be done.

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Skegness get first win of the season

Skegness 5 - Lincoln 2's 0
Goal scores - Amy x 2, Abi x 1, Amanda x 1, Lara x 1

Finally our first win in this league. Wasn't nice weather. Foggy and cold but we managed it!

5k indoor rowing time set

Had my first time at setting a 5k rowing time. It was very hard work. Mostly keeping away boredom!

Time set; 23:40.7

Not sure I'll try that one again!! Not looking forward to the Jan round - the gut buster - 10k!!

Rowing: 1 mile - Beat time

New mile personal best - 6:58.0
Very pleased to get it under 7 minutes - however it was hard work
Have entered it into the concept 2 challenge series and will have to wait to see were it puts me.

Skegness vs Lincoln 1st

Match postponed due to snowy weather

Skegness Ladies 0 - Cambs 2's 7

Dont think I need to say anymore!