Hinckley E played Griff & Coton C away at the weekend. Hinckley worked well at the start to take an early lead finishing the first quarter 7–4 ahead. The second quarter continued with Hinckley’s defence intercepting many loose balls and always getting the rebounds when Griff’s shooters failed to score, Griff only managed 3 goals this quarter and at half time Hinckley had increased their lead further.Hinckley remained in position, whilst Griff made changes to their team, but in the third quarter Hinckley’s attack were tremendous. Some fantastic movement from GA Lucy Ibbetson coupled with great long range shots by Anna Poulson at GS they scored an amazing 15 goals this quarter taking the score to 30–12. In the final quarter Hinckley continued with the same spirit and stormed ahead to take a 37–16 victory. Player of the match went to GD Heather Fraser for the second week in a row.
With Hinckley G currently unbeaten and sitting at the top of the league, their match against Stockton on paper looked to be in their favour. However, a mix up over player availability put Hinckley on the back foot as they had to play the match one player short. It was not a high scoring match, with Hinckley finding it tough going to move the ball through the mid court where the opposition’s extra player swamped them. However, solid turnovers from the defensive duo ensured that Stockton were unable to score at will and with the Stockton defenders both dropping onto Hinckley’s GS, Tracey Pallet at GA had enough freedom in the circle to feed accurate passes to her shooting partner who duly converted. However, having worked tirelessly to establish a 17-11 lead in the last quarter, Hinckley’s GA fell badly on her ankle and the match had to be abandoned.
Meanwhile mid table Hinckley H, took on second placed Highway. An evenly matched first quarter was followed by a confident performance by Highway to push themselves out to a 16-7 lead by half time. However, Hinckley came back fighting in the second half winning the third quarter and drawing the fourth. Although the final score line favoured Highway 28-21, it was the H teams strongest and most positive performance so far, notably from two of the youngest players; POM Maddie Trickett at C and Milly Hemus at GS.