Honours even for Arran Hockey Ladies and Glasgow Academicals

Captain Lynda Fenton led out a full squad with Suzi Haddow in goals, Helen Thomson, Kaitlyn Haddow, Marie Craig and Lee Reid in defence. Lynda was in mid-field with Mia Walker and Susie Murchie. Anne Watts, junior club player Eirlys Bowen and Delyth (Del) Mair Jones took position as the team’s attacking forwards. Another junior club player, Connie Watts, waited for her turn as the substitute, playing in the second quarter.

Winning the coin toss, the visitors took first pass back and put the Arran mid-field and defence under immediate pressure. The Arran Ladies stayed calm and repelled the attack, reclaiming the ball and sending it back up field to the forwards. Both teams showed great passing, defensive blocks and accurate tackling - allowing the ball to move continuously back and forth on the pitch. Half way through the first quarter Mia set up to take a sideline ball and seeing a wall of Glasgow Accies players in front of her, executed a superb aerial lift, over the heads of the opposition, to drop the ball in front of Del who sprinted into the Accies goal area and shot a sideswipe ball past the keeper and into the goal.