Some goals at last

Fri 9

We played South Australia today, with the loser being relegated to last and the winner playing (as it turned out) Queensland for 3rd place tomorrow.

The most dangerous play for SA is their centre half so Legs was assigned to mark her out of the game and we played a new system with 2 centre halves ourselves. It worked very well. Their player was shut down and we seem to have a lot of space to move the ball about. Everybody played well today and I was pleased with my own game.

Our first goal came from a bit of a mess up on the first short corner as often happens this can upset the defence more than the attack and when the ball was pushed back into the circle I was on the spot where I had a swing an a miss. The ball rolled onto the left post where Legs put it in. The goalie by this time was on the ground to block my non existent shot.

I scored also in the first half when a ball looped up from a defenders stick and was going across the face of goal. I knocked it down from about waist height and across the line. I had a good long run down the right and into the circle where I put it back on the defenders feet for a short.

In the second half. I had a couple of full-blooded shots at goal, which missed, before finally scoring again of a short corner. This time I put the ball in play with a drag and was waiting on the post for a pass and a shot into the far corner. We didn't core again but had a number of chances and kept the pressure on the goalie. The win puts us into the play off for 3rd tomorrow at 8. Considering I have the torn cartilage in my left knee and a torn right hamstring I thought I did pretty well.

I did get a message from the surgery confirming the op on Monday. I don't have to be there till 1-30 and can have an early breakfast but must fast from 8am.

We watched the 35s game before heading for the pool again. I'd forgotten to put in my tracksuit pants and had to go inside to warm up. It was only 10 degrees outside in the stands.

A number of our group watched the 50s play but I stayed in and caught up with some reports for the hockey and solved a few work problems. Our dinner was at the Telegraph Hotel again with the 50s team. Some one had booked which was good because it got quite busy.

On the way back we took some pics of the fairy lights in the trees along Salamanca with this being the best of them.

Our team meeting was tonight since we play at 8 tomorrow. Karen has been sewing everyday since we got here adding the breast cancer ribbons to the bows she made earlier for us to wear to the windup dinner.