Santa comes twice!

South London Korfball hosted Supernova 3 and 6 on Sunday 15th December and won both matches.

Mitcham were missing stalwarts Matt Norman and Frankie Neil and set out with Paul Franke, Sam Wood, Sarah Broadberry and May Shakespeare in attack, with Alex Chaffey, Maisy Wainwright, Tom Greeves and Edwin Huijberts in defence. Paul Franke opened the scoring, but Supernova quickly equalised. With the switch of ends, Maisy Wainwright and Edwin Huijberts both scored to make the scores 3-1. Supernova won a penalty, but Sarah Broadberry scored under the post to make it 4-2. Sam Kilburn came on for Edwin. Alex Chaffey scored a free pass before Supernova got one back to make it 5-3. Paul Franke scored from a rebound just before Edwin came on for Sam Wood, but then Supernova got one back to make it 6-4. Kitman Wong came on for Alex Chaffey. Maisy scored just before half time to make it 7-4.

Alex Chaffey replaced Sarah Broadberry at half time, shortly followed by Sarah replacing Kitman Wong. Sam Wood came on for Sam Kilburn. Tom Greeves scored a penalty to make it 8-4. Supernova responded with a long shot before Edwin scored under the post and Maisy scored from mid distance. Supernova got the next two to make it 10-7. Paul Franke scored another off the rebound to make it 11-7. Supernova got one back, but Mitcham went on a 3 goal streak with Sam Wood (distance), Edwin (penalty) and Paul (distance) took the scores to 14-8. Sam Kilburn came on for Tom Greeves. Unrelatedly, Supernova scored two goals to finish the game 14-10.

Balham set out with Sam Kilburn, John Wilson, Kitman Wong and Lizzie Evans in attack with Sam Loader, Charlie Johnson, Eleanor Rickenbach and Rachel Biddle in defence. Supernova 6 quickly went into t 2-0 lead through a penalty and running in shot. Sam Loader got one back, but Supernova scored another runner to make it 1-3. Supernova scored again before Balham got back in it through Kitman Wong to make it 2-4. With the change of ends, Sam Loader scored a long shot and Charlie scored a runner to make the scores even at 4-4.

Sam Kilburn got the next two, with a mid distance shot and a runner to make it 6-4. Eleanor stepped up and scored a penalty followed up by Charlies’s running in shot to make it 8-4. Supernova got one back before Kitman scored a runner to leave the scores at 9-5.