Sonning Veterans v. Reading Uni

Grateful thanks to AJ for umpiring this game at the last minute.

The first league game of the Vets season saw them playing a strong team from Reading Uni. It was obvious that Sonning were in for a tough game after just a few minutes as there were unrelenting attacks from the Uni forwards. At half time the Vets had fought hard but were 0-2 down.
A good rallying half-time talk by the team manager Jan Hepplewhite got the second half off to a good start producing one or two chances for the Vets to get themselves on the scoreboard. Once again the Uni's superior strength and fitness led to on-going pressure on the Vets defence and in spite of an outstanding performance by Sue Hicks in goal the Vets conceded a further two goals which were well engineered by the Uni team. The result of 0-4 was a disappointing one for the Vets first league game.