AECC Rugby v Netball Round 2 (Feb 2011)

NETBALL MATCH REPORT

AECC Netball Girls 13

AECC Rugby Boys 26

On the afternoon of Saturday 5th February, the annual Charity Ball sporting challenge was held when the AECC Netball girls took on the all-conquering AECC rugby boys... AT NETBALL!!!

The girls prepared with years of experience and a full season of very successful netball, while the boys prepared with a short whiteboard session in the Toggler’s Arms approximately an hour prior to tip-off (or whatever it’s called).

Fanatical spectator Stroon Broon has handed me a notebook with 12 pages of lovingly prepared hieroglyphic notes on every move of the game for “processing”, but I think I’m gonna stick to the nice summary at the end. Basically the boys won (again), and the girls still won’t play them at rugby (boo!).

Goals for the boys

Matt Bateman 12

Nathan Chilton 10

Ricky C Davis 3

Jonny Coller  1

Fouls for the boys

Jonny Coller 13

Sindre 9

Scott Gimby 7

Matt Bateman 7

Alex Horne 7

Nathan Chilton 5

Dominik Jaskulski 4

Tom White 2

Ricky C Davis 1

Iain Crombie 1

Line-up: GK – Sindre, GD – Horne, WD - Dom Jaskulski, WD – Coller/Gimby, C – Cromsy/Gimby, GA – Ricky/Chiltern, GS – Bateman/Ricky.

Sadly no stats exist for the girls because Stroon does not like looking at girls.

Reaction

Captain Matt Bateman said this:

“We obviously had no idea what we were doing, running around, fouling, and we still just dominated them. It was embarrassing.”

Whilst Stroon was more philosophical when asked what he thought about Netball

“It’s like the college bar: no, bantering, no hitting and if you do something mildly objectionable, you’re temporarily out of the game and have to say sorry. And if you do something really bad everything gets locked up and nobody has any fun.”

All in all, a most enjoyable experience that, should anyone read this, will probably never happen again.