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Croydon Girls 35 Vs Central Wield Dragons 0 at Crawley
Croydon turned out to play Central Wield, eager to continue their wins. The team was in good spirits and seemed prepared, but Central Wield hadn’t planned on going down without a fight.
With Croydon girls receiving the kick off the game had begun to a slow start, with the Central Wield girls chasing the ball right from the kick and holding up the Croydon attack with good defence. Croydon unable to break through Central Wield with use of its forwards, started to spread the ball wide and stretch the Dragons defence. With some good handling and spreading of the ball, Croydon managed to break down the wings and score their first try.
This became the game tactic with two more tries following. Central Wield finally wised up and kept their defence spread out and Croydon were now unable to break down the wings. But with some words of wisdom, Croydon now instead, started to utilise their forwards and started running close to break downs and finally punch through leading to another try. Croydon repeated this process in which another try was put down against the Dragons.
At half time the score was 25-0. Croydon proving their dominance in the scrums meant that the Dragons went uncontested. This in turn allowed our scrum half much easier ball to pass out to the backs attacking from good depth and pace, through good running lines and well timed passing Croydon managed to get another two tries down. Through fierce defence of Central Wields try line they managed to hold up three more tries. With the final score being 35 – 0 to Croydon.
Croydon played from start to finish with the determination they needed to win, and Central Wields made sure they worked extremely hard for every try Croydon managed to ground, keeping their heads up right to the final whistle.
I would like to thank Ian Golding for coming out of retirement to ref for us, as we know, no game would be possible with out the officials to run them.
