up against the Apes Hill 1 team and it was somewhat of a family
affair with fathers and sons on opposing teams.
Phillip Atwell playing for Apes Hill 1 was at number one, whilst his
son Danny Atwell was at number four for Buttals. Meanwhile in the
other father/son combo Richard Deane was at number four playing for
Apes Hill 1 whilst his son Adam Dean was playing at number two
for Buttals.
There was no love lost between these two teams and both teams rode
onto the field with purpose, but it was Buttals that got off to the
blazing start with Philip Tempro opening their scoreline . An equalizer
was averted after Richard Deane sent a diagonal ball across the goal
mouth and Pablo Crespin, only needed the slightest of touches to put
it away, instead he missed the ball completely. The Buttals lead was
further increased to 2-0, as Danny Atwell made no mistake with a 60
yard penalty.
Under pressure, Apes Hill 1 tried to respond, but not very emphatically,
Jamie Dickson was escorted to the goal by Adam Deane who was
unable to get around to the right side of Dickson to make any serious
challenge on the ball; he ended up instead giving away a 60 yard penalty
and a chance for Apes Hill 1 to equalise. However it was not to be as
Dickson’s penalty shot struck the goal post and deflected out. Atwell
however made no such mistake, when it was his turn and scored the
penalty to give his team a 3-1 advantage at the end of the first chukker.
In comparison, the second chukker was a low scoring one, a number of
close misses featured in this chukker until Dickson cleaned up behind
a missed shot by Richard Deane who moved the ball from inside his
own half to dangerously close to the opponents goal, but he missed the
final touch, and Dickson followed up nicely for the one and only goal
of this chukker.
Seemingly inspired in this third chukker Apes Hill 1 pushed ahead
with goals from Pablo Crespin and Dickson. Two deflected penalties
showed that the teams were still giving their all as the ball was picked
out of the air or deflected as it rose
above the heads of the players; the first
Adam Deane and Jamie Dickson
was Danny Atwell deflecting Dicksons’
both vying for the ball
penalty, Dickson then returned the
favour minutes later by deflecting one
of Atwells’ penalties. Whilst this tit for
tat went on, it was young Adam Deane
that stole the show, and just before the
final bell went for the end of the chukker,
he put one through the uprights to level
the scores. With the light quickly
fading the f