Ladies 5th XI Vs Sidmouth & Ottery 3rds

A mid morning push back saw Exe 5s visiting Ottery St Mary to play Sidmouth and Ottery 3s.

Sidmouth and Ottery set up camp in their offensive half for the first 25 minutes of the first half.  With all players forward they pushed hard and only valiant defence on the part of Exe kept the scores level.  Exe did start to take a little more possession towards the end of the half with some nice darting runs out of the defence finding their way through, but nobody was able to break the deadlock. 

Half time: 0-0

Sidmouth and Ottery again started the second half strongly and Exe clearly were clearly suffering from the hard warm conditions as they tired.  The first goal of the game came from a short corner, Exe finally succumbing having successfully defended several.  In the middle of the period a scrappy few minutes found Exe goalie Jane Bailey stretched on the floor but still managing to keep the ball out, until a defender finally thought to lift it over.  In the final seconds the ball snuck in at the post to leave the score 3-0 to the home side. 

Full time: 3-0

Player of the match: Votes were split between Daisy Keyte and Jojo Bannister.