The Women’s Varsity Hockey pushed back in glorious sunshine at half past three in front of a decent-sized crowd for a lazy Friday afternoon. Trent dominated the opening exchanges, looking dangerous on several occasions but it was Uni that struck first on 18 minutes, after some lovely build-up play sliced through the Trent defence and a perfect cross from the right wing resulted in a delicate lob over the hopeless Trent keeper. 1-0 to Uni and with that, the dynamic of the game completely changed, with the girls in green now controlling the play.
For the rest of the half, Uni remained in charge, but were guilty of over-playing and not testing the Trent goaltender enough, leading to much frustration amongst the spectators. However, the girls in white and pink still looked very dangerous on the counter-attack, but their shooting consistently let them down despite working several good breaks. With the score line still close at the end of the 35 minutes, it was anybody’s game.
