Tournaments – Three of them

I have no idea whats going on here

Widnes/NTS/Warwick Tournaments

Apologies for the delay in writing much recently, everything seems to have got on top of me and as we change the team name etc i’ve also been preparing the new website. If i’m honest i should try and keep my large admin tasks to the winter and just try and keep this sight ticking over in the meantime!

Since I last posted we have been to three tournaments with results that can only be described as “mixed”. A tourney in Halton, The Bath NTS and the return tournament with our friends in Warwick!

Due to injury I missed the Halton tournament and no-one has come forward with a report so i’ll rapidly gloss over our slightly erm, rubbish results. I’m told the team actually played well but its difficult when we have to borrow ringers or players who havent trained with us, especially as the standard was so high at this one.

Our player of the tournament was Kate Edwards – making her debut for the team and playing like a champion. So i’m told anyway.

The last wear of the old kit - in Halton

Bath NTS

I’d recovered for this one, a little gutted that my training regime had gone to pot but glad to at least be there. We made a much better fist of this than we did last year. Did we win a game? No! Did we bother a few top teams? Yes indeed. Our thanks must go to our two South Walian based gogs by attitude Kevin Hobbs and Iwan Davies, who both played superbly.

The most pleasing thing about the day was how we stuck to what we had trained, even when receiving a hammering and how much we learned. I even made the effort to be vaguely social, though after my comments about crackling i’m sure a few of the team would prefer me to not bother next time.

There were scores for last years returning captain Nia, Gareth B got a couple, Hobbs got three and someone else score because we got seven on the day. Oddly enough I only ensure the scores are recorded when I get a load myself.

Player of the tournament – Gareth Barton, First tournament, talented ball player, nice bloke, good gun. Not fair

Hangtime in Bath

Warwick Touch Fest

In an odd fit of keeness the team announced at the NTS that they wanted more tournamenst and they wanted them soon. So we all travelled down to a tournament ran by our good friends from Warwick.

This was very very tiring, we basically played 6 games with a 5 minute break between each, the standard was mixed which is reflected in our results which ranged from a 8 – 0 thrashing of a team from Solihull to a good Oxford side beating us 6 – 1. But we made the show Semi-final which is always nice.

We also played a 2 lads 4 ladies split and its a reflection of how awesome our ladies played that we did so well.

Player of the tournament – Sarah Kelly. Our future England international has good hands, plenty of gas and an eye for a gap. Still only 18 too, Not Fair.

Non-player of the tournament – Me. I was a chump, sorry.

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