the wellington college year book 2010/2011
128
T
he original plan was to
play College 2nds and 1sts
but with only one team
available from the pupils it
left the aged ows plenty
of reinforcements on the bench. In order to
stretch out the match and make the most of
our situation we played three thirds again which
seemed potentially in our favour given the
ows have been unbeaten in that format so far.
In the first third the ows started fresher
than a set of newly-starched linen. As has
been the case in the last few years we took an
early lead and held on to win the first period
3-0. Goals came from Tom Curry, Mac ‘The
Poacher’ Nicoll and Will Newland.
So, 3-0 up we were heading into the middle
third when College came back to win the
period 2-1 with Maughan putting in the only
goal for the ows.
The final third saw more drama, not least of
all from Rob Easton’s dummy aerial ball?—?what
a dummy?! College clawed another goal back
to add to the pressure on the fatigued ows.
Then a foul was committed right in front of goal
by none other than Ricky Page whose newly
found commitment to the ha Fair Play Award
culminated in him triggering only 86% of all
whistle blows on the day. A rumble around
the umpire ensued that El Hadji Diouf and
Emmanuel Adebayor would’ve been proud of.
Not even Jon White (Common Room) could
do his best from having a crack at the authority
figure that was our very own injured Hugo
Shepherd who decided on a p-flick to College.
Despite the remonstrating the decision
stood. Goalkeeper Simon Bayliff made an
instinctive save and victory was in sight. To
close it off, Lachie Trentham converted our
own p-flick and the day was a resounding
success for the now weary ows: 5-2.
As ever Rob Easton has put in a request for a special mention. Apparently
he provided an enormous amount of assists preferring to give up his many selfmade opportunities to score for the sake
of his usually less prolific peers. Well done
Rob for such sportsmanlike behaviour.
hockey