Saturday January 14th 2006

Cambridge League Div 2

Market Deeping Ladies (3) v March Town Ladies 3rd XI (0)

Deeping’s ladies remain top of Cambs Div. Two after March 3rds conceded a 3-0 win.

East Div 3NW

Long Sutton 2nd XI (1) v Market Deeping 1st XI (5)

Everything went right on the day for Deeping as they recommenced their East 3NW campaign at Long Sutton. Apprehensive about their powerful opposition, Deeping were nonetheless buoyed up by the unexpected presence of Darren Heatherington and Andy Kind. But their ace in the hole was the sometime second teamer Henry Winfield-Chislett who took two chances superbly.

Deeping fielded a side with frightening potential pace and rattled Sutton from the start. After a dominant five minutes a glorious Heatherington through ball set up Winfield-Chislett one and one on the keeper and he duly scored. Deeping then made a string of chances which they failed to take, before a mis-hit Chris Mann effort somehow bobbled through the Sutton keeper and Paul Tancred pushed it into an open net. Sutton’s skipper then scored a superb goal against the run of play, roofing a crossed pass past keeper Jason Purllant. Purllant was then called on to make some sharp saves in the following period of Sutton pressure. Then a hotly disputed short corner ran loose to Heatherington and he slotted it home from the top of the D.
Sutton’s heads went down and they lost concentration.

The second half continued at frantic pace with the sprinters – Ali Rowledge, Andy Kind, and Winfield-Chislett constantly rattling Sutton – and the solid defensive performance of Simon Wilmot and Richard Woods giving Sutton nothing.  Then Wilmot came up for a Deeping short-corner and crashed it home into the corner. Sutton also had their own short corner goal controversially disallowed. Then, with five minutes left, Winfield-Chislett bravely scored another almost identical one-on-one with the Sutton keeper.

Deeping stay third but pick up a point on Peterborough Town in second place. 

East Div 5NW

Market Deeping 2nd XI (1) v Long Sutton 3rd XI (1)

Deeping again failed to finish off Long Sutton, but at least after letting a two goal lead slip into defeat at the start of the season they took a valuable point from the game.

After a five week break and the disappointing result at Peterborough Town the pre-match talk concentrated on keeping the ball, playing the game at a high tempo and scoring goals.  The first half of the game was strangely subdued, with few highlights, other than a well-struck goal from Magnus Windsor, and a deft back stick flick from Ben Walden which just drifted wide.  Market Deeping were on top at half-time, with keeper Ray Isaacs only called into action the once when saving a one on one with Long Sutton’s promising young centre forward.

The second half started well, with Windsor firing a shot just wide of the post following good work down the right by Ben Walden and Mike Gregson. The Long Sutton goalkeeper made some fine saves and had the assistance of the post from a penalty corner. Despite the home team’s dominance they couldn’t get a second decisive goal, and with time running out, an injury to Will Winfield-Chislett reduced the home side to ten.  Within a minute Long Sutton forced a penalty corner, which was converted with a well struck shot into the corner of the net.

Deeping were left bitterly disappointed with only one point to show for their efforts and slip from second to fourth in 5NW on goal difference.

East Div 7NW

March Town 5th XI (3) v Market Deeping 3rd XI (4)

Deeping enjoyed an excellent pre-league friendly at March, well-umpired and played in good spirit. With calls from the higher XIs depleting them Deeping took the chance to give a game to some of their irregulars, using veterans Paul Van Den Bent and Tim Barnacle. Deeping rolled their team around, tried players in different positions and generally had a ball. That was just as well, as they didn’t have much luck in the first half.

They took an early two nil lead after a clever deflection pass from newcomer Trelawney set up the unselfish Jack Seaton. His fine pass let Tom Allam christen a new stick with its very first touch. Seaton then had his reward when he pounced on a goalkeeping error to score from close range. Deeping were handling March pressure with little trouble until two deflected balls in the D dropped perfectly for March forwards to score, but they  regained the lead from Kevin Baker’s cleverly-placed shot.

Halftime saw defensive changes and Deeping lost shape, conceded an equaliser, then gradually got their act together. They were indebted to good keeping from former 1st team keeper Steve Allam – more often seen as a full-back these days. Simon Taylor won the game for Deeping late on when his short corner shot rebounded from a defender and he flicked it home.