Ashford VBL (Women) – Report 2023-24
By ATTC Webmaster on Feb 14, 2024 with Comments 0
- Sherwood Ladies
- Cleeve Park TTC
- Milton Keynes Ladies
- Ellenborough Ladies 2
- Foresters 3
- Sutton at Hone
- Northern Belles
First Weekend – 7-8 October 2023 at Derby Arena
For the first weekend the team was Lisa Sprackling, Gill Lesh, Diane Mclellan and new team member Hulya Humphries.
On the Saturday, after an initial loss, 2-4 to Sherwood Ladies, we won the next two – beating Cleeve Park TTC 4-2 and Milton Keynes Ladies 5-1.
Unfortunately we suffered two further losses on the Sunday – 2-4 to Ellenborough Ladies 2 and 1-5 to Foresters 3.
There were some good performances from Lisa and Gill in the first weekend and the results left us in joint 5th position at the halfway stage.
Second Weekend – 10-11 February 2024 at Derby Arena
For the second weekend the team was Lisa Sprackling, Gill Lesh, Diane Mclellan and Rachel Smith.
As a division of 8 teams we came into the second weekend needing to get up to 4th position or higher after the first two matches.
At this point, the division would then split into a top and bottom half.
It’s much better to be in the top half and not to have the worry of relegation – even if promotion looked a long way off!
We were lucky to start on the Saturday by playing two of the weaker teams.
We won our first match against Sutton at Hone 6-0 and followed that by then beating Northern Belles – also 6-0. Lisa, Gill and Rachel (returning for this weekend) won all their matches.
As well as our wins some other matches went in our favour and we finished joint 3rd and made it in to the top half.
Our first match after the split was against the top team – Foresters 3.
With Lisa winning both matches and Gill and Diane contributing one each, we beat them to move into 3rd place proper.
Sunday didn’t go so well – with losses of 0-6 against Cleeve Park (the eventual winners) and 2-4 against Milton Keynes Ladies.
We finished up in 3rd place, pleased with our improvement from the half way stage.
Results, Tables & Fixtures etc.
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