St Austell 1

PROMOTION-chasing Bude headed down to St Austell to face the leagues bottom side, and in the end recorded a comfortable 6-1 victory.

St Austell started brightly, but Hannah Maloney, Cara Phillips, Grace Chan and Jemma Ball stood up strongly and were quick to move the ball out of defence and into the midfield.

Emily Shepherd and Katharine Muller distributed the ball to both flanks while Heather Mathews and Charlotte Prime had the Saints defence at sixes and sevens with their pace and skill.

Mathews opened the scoring when she beat two defenders before slotting the ball past the onrushing goalkeeper.

Shepherd quickly added the second but the Saints still tried to push Bude back, and were rewarded when an error in defence allowed them to halve the deficit.

Coach Alan Muller’s stern words from the sideline had the desired effect when Prime smashed in the third before half-time.

The second-half was all one-way traffic, and it wasn’t long before they went 3-1 up as Erinne Bickle picked up a cross from Zara Higham and slapped it into the net from close range.

Bude were now playing slick hockey and scored twice more through Prime and Mathews.

Trelawney Division One

Bude 5

Plymouth Marjon III 0

BUDE’s march towards promotion shows no kind of slowing down as they hammered Plymouth Marjon’s third team at Budehaven School.

Having drawn with Marjon before Christmas, Bude were expecting a tough game, and so it proved, as the visitors started the stronger, although the home defence denied them.

Katharine Muller and Emily Shepherd were again running the midfield for Bude, passing the ball out wide for Charlotte Prime and Tammy Snowsill-Messenger, who’s runs into the opposition half were causing problems for the visitors.

Prime opened the scoring with a mazy run past three defenders before clipping the ball over the advancing goalkeeper.

Marjon attacked Bude at speed, and would have been on level terms but for good goalkeeping from Jo Timmins.

Bude settled themselves and doubled their lead before the break as Snowsill-Messenger drove down the left before firing the ball across the D for Erinne Bickle to reverse stick the ball into the net.

The second-half was all Bude. Prime was unstoppable on the right as she created plenty of chances by herself, two of which she converted to earn herself a hat-trick.

There was time for a fifth goal of the afternoon when Shepherd fired in after Zara Higham’s shot was saved.

This was Katharine Muller’s last game in charge before she heads off to New Zealand travelling.

Thanks were expressed to her for all the hard work looking after the team and the ladies vowed to continue to play exciting, attacking hockey as they aim for promotion.