It was a late start under floodlights in Cambridge and Bourne Deeping hoped to build on a win the previous week.
Although they lost, this was agreed to be possibly their best performance of the season. The squad including so many rapidly developing youngsters, led by the experience of Brewer, Watkins, Slack, an inspired Kind, and Portlock between the posts, played some of their best hockey, and with energy and purpose.
The opposition were, as usual, a more experienced unit but they were met with determined defence, at times all under 19 years, prepared to transfer the ball to explore attacking opportunities.
In midfield isaac is building an understanding with Slack and Watkins allowing Andrew Kind to be an easy outlet right.
5-0 down at half time, the dragons consoled themselves that had it not been for an unstoppable PC dragflick specialist, it would have been closer.
To move on in the second half as a unit and not only restrict the home team to just one further goal but to continue to search in attack is a measure of the maturity of messrs Garner, Saunders, Mountain, Brill, Moisey & Moisey and the togetherness of the squad.
This season may not necessarily be about winning, but in that aim it is about progress, solidarity and moments within games, of which there were many, that those members should rightly celebrate with pride as reward for their huge effort.
MOTM Roddy great defensive cover and composure and some good passes out from the back