Mitcham and Balham had their first home games of the season together at Sacred Heart School and won both their games. Mitcham won 17-5, while Balham claimed their first clean sheet with a 13-0 win against Supernova 4 and 5 respectively.
Mitcham
Mitcham set up with Maisy Wainwright, Matt Norman, Alex Chaffey and Paul Franke in attack and Nicole Williams, Tom Greeves, Edwin Huijberts and Frankie Neil in Defence. Matt Norman opened the scoring and Supernova 4 quickly equalised. Edwin scored, with an assist from Frankie to make it 2-1 but the division soon swapped back with another Supernova equaliser. Alex Chaffey, with an assist from Matt, got Mitcham back in the lead. But then Supernova equalised. Nicole scored Mitcham’s 4th, before Supernova equalised.
Matt Norman and Paul Franke scored two to swap ends. Mitcham made their first substitute, bringing on May Shakespeare and taking off Nicole. May scored a penalty, followed by a goal from Tom Greeves to make it 8-4 at the break. Two more substitutes followed, as Nicole came on for Maisy and shortly after, Maisy went on for May.
The second half saw Mitcham wearing their scoring boots, with two goals each from Matt Norman, then from Tom Greeves, then from Nicole, then from Tom to make it 16-4. Nova got one back, before May got her second just before the final whistle to make it 17-5.
Balham
Balham set up with Will Reed, Ellie Jaffray, Sam Wood and Sarah Broadberry in first attack, with May Shakespeare, Sam Loader, Dulcie Keeley and Charlie Corfield in defence.
Sam Wood opened the scoring after 20 seconds with a running in shot, with Sarah Broadberry scoring a distance shot shortly after. Sam Loader scored a distance shot before Balham’s first set of changes. Rachel Biddle came on for Ellie Jaffray and Charlie Johnson for Will Reed.
Sam Loader scored another distance shot, forcing the change of ends so that Sam Wood could score a distance shot and a runner. Supernova called a time out and Balham made some more substitutions. Will Reed came on for Charlie Corfield and Ellie Jaffray for Dulcie Keeley. Will quickly scored two running in shots just before half time to make it 8-0.
At half time, Sarah Broadberry came off and Dulcie Keeley came back on. Charlie Johnson scored a runner and a distance shot to make it 10-0. Will Reed and Sam Loader scored their third goals with Charlie Corfield rounding off the scoring with a distance shot to make it 13-0.
Thanks to Tom Greeves for refereeing the Balham game.
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