Ladies 1st XI Vs Sidmouth & Ottery

Tavistock v Sidmouth and  Ottery 7-5 - Player of the match Laura Armstrong 

The game started quickly with Tavistock putting immediate pressure on Sidmouth, it didn't take long for Tavistock to seek their first opportunity with an unfortunate disallowed goal. Sidmouth hit the home sides defence quickly and opened up the score sheet with a 1-0 lead. With great work across the midfield from Scott, Bassett and Armstrong led the ball to Lamb who took a firing run up the pitch, played a square ball across the D to Gaspar who slotted past the keeper to bring Tavistock back into the game. Sidmouth came back with a second goal and then immediately put further pressure on the home sides defence, the ball was saved off the line by Mills-Hicks but unfortunately Sidmouth took it to 3-1 past keeper Viggars. Tavistock once again came fighting back with Colston making her trademark runs up the right hand side, slipped across to Armstrong who then set Lamb up nicely for her first goal of the game. With another goal taken by Sidmouth, this saw the 1st half closing with Tavistock on the back foot. Tavistock ladies came back into the second half looking strong after a stern half time talk from coach Fenwick and the late arrival of Nevin in the midfield. The home side opened up the second half with a well worked short corner from Lamb and Armstrong to reduce the deficit to just one goal. Shortly after this saw the forward line applying the pressure on the Sidmouth defence once again with a great run from Mount Kelly student Lindsay who took it passed two defenders and into the D which set Armstrong up with her second goal of the game. With Tavistock in high spirits this soon saw them looking dangerous once again in the D and a beautiful top corner shot from Lamb took them into the lead. Tavistock then followed this up with two more goals from Nevin and Donnelly to put the home side into a 3 goal lead. With only minutes remaining and both sides tiring it was Sidmouth who got the last goal in of the game to close the score at a 7-5 win for Tavistock. This win now takes Tavistock through to the semi finals of the Devon cup.