Report: 2nd XI Ladies vs Cambridge South 3 – February 01, 2025

On a bright sunny Saturday Spalding Ladies 2’s travelled away to face Cambs South 3’s. The game started with Spalding having most of the possession but unfortunately after 10 minutes the home team broke through Spalding’s defence to make it 1-0.  

MOM Amy Naylor worked tirelessly in the middle, linking well with Tabby Green and Lauren Spenceley and just before half time were rewarded with a short corner, Grace Hodgett stepped up for the strike but was unable to convert,  Cambs South mounted a counter attack and were awarded a corner which they put away to make it 2-0 at half time.

Spalding started well again , but unfortunately despite Freya Lee pulling off some incredible saves and excellent defending from youngsters Holly Gleave and Honor Pearson ,Cambs scored again . 

Spalding kept the majority of possession in the second half but Cambs increased their lead by converting two more penalty corners.

Spalding never stopped working and 6 minutes from the end Vicky Worral attacked down the wing into the D with a reverse shot on goal, the shot was saved by the keeper and the Cambs defender ended up on top of Vicky with cramp and the umpire awarded a bully just outside the D. Luckily Vicky was one of the few on the pitch old enough to know what a bully was and expertly took it and won it! Her first shot was saved by the keeper but on the rebound Vicky expertly slotted it in the bottom right corner to give Spalding there first goal. The game finished 5-1 to Cambs but spalding should be proud of themselves as the score didn’t reflect how well they played.