Horfield Home, 1sts
31-1 Remco Broekhuis (8), Chris Gubby (6), Angharad Morgan (5), Lee O’Sullivan (3), Joey Niblett (3), Amy Shillabeer (2), Josh Cockburn (2), Rachel Knight (1), Sian Hunt (1)
After two successive defeats, a game against a Horfield side missing several key players looked promising for getting back to winning ways, but the performance was better than could have been expected, with the shooting that had misfired so badly against Exeter being particularly good.
The key to the margin was that Dragons had almost total control of the post so could regularly put up multiple shots until one dropped. By contrast Horfield were largely restricted to one shot attacks which meant they failed to develop a rhythm and despite several near misses only one shot dropped in. Remco led the scoring with his shooting being the most accurate it’s been all season. Chris produced countless interceptions to go alongside his 6 goals and Angharad did superbly to bring her second division scoring record into the first team.
All credit to Horfield however, rather than settling for possession-based damage limitation, they kept trying to score and although they were never in contention the final score does do them some injustice.
Thanks to Jack for reffing, and to Natalie for risking RSI by doing the scoring.
Obnoxious gloating: The margin of victory was an EKL record. It’s tempting to say it was a cricket score, bud sadly it’s difficult to imagine England managing to score 31 for the loss of only one wicket. It also was too much for our scoreboard, which only goes up to 30.
Ten Highest Scores in EKL History (Horfield readers look away now)
Cardiff Dragons 31-1 Horfield (06-07)
Horfield 4-24 Cardiff City (03-04)
Bristol University 22-1 Horfield (03-04)
Horfield 8-22 Cardiff City (05-06)
Cardiff City 21-2 Exeter City (04-05)
Exeter City 21-6 Horfield (05-06)
Bristol City 21-8 Taunton (06-07)
Horfield 11-20 Bristol City (05-06)
Cardiff Dragons 19-10 Cardiff City (05-06)
Bristol University 19-9 Cardiff City (02-03)
