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Ladies Second XI Hockey
Harrogate Ladies 2nds play in the Yorkshire Premier Division and are a fun team with a mix of ages. The 2009/2010 season brings flexibility and fluidity between all teams and the 2s look forward to supporting the 1s in their bid for national league status.
The 2008/2009 season was a successful one with a 6th place finish. It was a season for bringing on the youngsters and players like Helen Swarbrick, Emma Dobson and Georgie Stocks flourished under the opportunity. Captain Catherine Higginson did a brilliant job managing the team and playing for two teams in a weekend.
The 2009/2010 season sees another new captain, Rachel Smith. The new season looks a promising one with lots of new players showing their talent in summer league, in which has been very successful.
This season may be a challenging one with the loss of Georgie Stocks and last seasons player of the season, Ashley Pickford but it gives an opportunity for new players to fill the void.
The aim for this season is to enjoy playing for the 2s and play with the same fit attacking hockey that has made summer league such fun to be part of. This season an improvement on last years 6th place finish is what we will strive for but with the new rules to adhere to it could prove a challenge.
Captains info- Rachel Smith email- rchl.smith2@googlemail.com mobile- 07877002176
Match report 7th november vs LA carnegie
After some awesome team bonding games lead by legend rach b on tuesday the 2s were well up for the game. Some may find that surprising considering we were sitting bottom on 0 points, but we knew we had the players and it was only a matter of time before things turned for the better. We started the game slowly attempting 15 minutes keeping the ball and stopping the other team attacking, this lasted about 2 minutes and resulted in us giving away a flick. Help was on hand however in the form of smithy making an awesome save to keep out the flick. This should have given the team a lift, when in fact we let in a sloppy goal not long after, with an adel player managing to run the back line and cross the ball for a player to tap in. This was a bad goal to conceed but it seemed to give gate some momemtum. We dominated posession for long periods but still went into the break 1 nil down.
We rode our luck for periods in the second half and also wasted chance after chance but eventually a short corner resulted in beth giving us the goal we deserved. Some excellent defending followed by both teams to prevent further goals and the game finished 1 all.
A draw was probably a fair result and will hopefully be the catalyst for better results. Using our new team motto of "in one ear and out the other" I believe we will improve. Congrats to MOM Rach b (even if there was birthday votes given) Lets get a win now against thirsk :)