The Dragons couldn't nail a goal

Full of confidence from last week’s victory Bourne Deeping headed to Kettering with a youthful looking team full of promise. Bourne started strongly as usual with strong running from Teesdale, Baker and Goode across the middle, supporting Hotchkin and Kisiel up front, but for all their hard work opportunities were hard to come by but in defence the youthful back line of Jackson, Willmot, Dacre and Curtis sharpened their elbows and working hard against the increasingly mobile Kettering forward line to keep the scores level at half time. The second half started much like the first with Goode fashioning some good chances that all went begging, even a rare couple of short corner opportunities didn’t change the score line although this may well have been more to do with Curtis’s 5 day jolly, sorry work trip, than the short corner routine. Just as Bourne began to believe a well deserved point might be a good result from a trip to Kettering a pass from the goal keeper hit a clumsy foot on the baseline, a goal from the resulting short corner gave the points to Kettering leaving the Bourne side slowing considerably and hamstrings ever tightening to look to the next game and being glad for a week off.