Burnside Causes Women’s Hockey Upset

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31991, 19 May 1969, Page 16

Burnside Causes Women’s Hockey Upset

\oung players dominated . play in Saturdays round of matches in the senior women's hockey competition The upset of the day was the defeat of the joint leader, Rawhiti, by the youthful Burnside. University now has a clear lead after drawing with Digbys. while Carlton and Harewood moved up to challenge University after beating Aranui and Teachers’ College, respectively. Results: Digbys 1, University 1. Harewood 5, Teachers* College 0. Burnside 3, Rawhiti 1. Carlton 1, Aranui 0. Points:—University 3. Digbys, I i Carlton. Rawhiti and Harewood 2J. Burnside 2. Aranui 1. | Teachers’ College 0. Harewood v. Teachers' College Harewood quickly moved into attack and looked purposeful It spent a large part of the game in Teachers’ College territority and only good goal-keep-ing by .1. Mohr prevented the score from being higher Goals by L Bayliss,, L. Rutledge and J. Siebeck gave Harewood a 3 0 lead at half-time but it was unable to attack with the same purpose later. In the second half, play deteriorated and Harewood was camped between Teachers' College 25-yard line and half-way. i Harewood's passes began to go astray and College defended doggedly and sent its forwards on occasional raids. E. Oxley (Teachers’ College) ran well on the right wing, but her centring passes found none of her forwards In position. Teachers’ College was weaxened t>y the loss of J. Fright in the backs. Mohr worked hard in goal and kicked strongly to clear, but too often she was faced by unmarked Harewood forwards in possession. P. Hulme, playing her I first game of the season, had I some good patches. ] Rutledge netted both of Harci wood’s goals in the second half, j Umpires: Mesdames M. I McGregor and N. Powell. Carlton v. Aranui Neither team showed real ' supremacy in this game until Carlton put on the pressure in the later stages, in the first half, both forward lines had chances to score, either from open play or penalty corners. For Carlton, M. Bruhns, right-1 back, had her best game of the season. She tackled surely and cleared accurately for her forwards to move oh to attack. Carlton’s inside forwards showed an over-eagerness to I score and were bunching in I Aranui’s circle, making it easy | for one Aranui defender to; mark two opposing forwards. J. Witte, playing her first game as centre-half, closely supported her forwards on attack. She had several shots at goal which narrowly missed. A. Judson ran strongly and was quick to seize scoring chances in the circle, but these chances went wide. A. Howman showed better form, but held possession too long at times. Aranui’s forwards showed better passing combination than in the past. Players were looking for gaps in which to place their passes. J. Ormandy had some fine

runs on the right wing but she was too slow to centre the ball. S. Cowles, usually too fast to be closely marked, met her match in Bruhns. She was forced to distribute the ball rather than run on her own. Although being awarded several penally corners. Aranui’s forwards failed to utilise these scoring chances. A. Ruston, centre-half, sup ported her forwards closely on attack and had several shots at goal, none of which was fruitful. J The pressure was really on for both teams in the closing stages of the second half. Late in the match Carlton was awarded a penalty corner. Jud ; son hit the ball to G. Coull, who put everything into her I shot to score. Umpires: Misses N. Beale and G. Bowyer. Digbys v. Univarsity Digbys took the early initiative and attacked through its right flank combination of J. Hardie and B. Turbott. Turboit managed to score early but although Digby's had most of the possession and territorial advantage it lacked the sting to press home its superiority in the absence of J. Burkett* and J. Fookcs. University was without the high scoring Rutherford sisters, but S. Smythe was in good form. Near half-time she weaved through the Digby s defence to score. The second spell settled into a pattern of solid mid-field play Digby’s still had the edge on possession but did not make the most of it. Passes continually went astray. Univers ity had the same trouble. Umpires: Mesdames M. Gray and J. Fifield. Burnside v. Rawhiti This was the brightest game of the day. Rawhiti scored early but the goal was disallowed for off-side. Burnside quickly mounted a fierce barrage on the Rawhiti goal, mainly from its left flank. J. Whiteside (Rawhiti) did some grand blocking. Finally, relief came in the form of a free hit, and Rawhiti lost no time in sending M. ‘ Bennett, its right-wing, into action. She centred across (he , goal area and R. Carroll, the ;centre-forward, scored. i Burnside came back deter Iminedly on its right flank, and /from a centring pass from A. ;i Johnston. the left-wing, P Rushbridge, netted. Excitement i now mounted as play evened out, but the half-time score re jimained one-all. . j In the early stages of the r jsecond half Rawhiti worked to , cut Burnside's centre-half. S. 'Comer, out of play, and sue- ' ceeded. Rawhiti maintained its [ attacks on the wing flanks, re- » lying on centering passes for , scoring chances. Burnside re tailiated with the same mode [ of play. The vital goal to put r Burnside into the lead came > from Rusbridge. Shortly afteri wards, A. Johnston made it I three for Burnside with a sure hit into the corner of the net I Then came Rawhiti’s chance. A i serious error cost Burnside a ■ penalty bully, but Carroll was : unable to capitalise on it. Umpires: Misses N. Beale and : G. Bowyer.