October 15, 2011
Burnaby Lake Women 2nds vs. Ridge Meadows
Burnaby Lake Hangs On
With key members of the Burnaby Lake 2nds squad earning promotion to the premier team plus a number of retirements, injuries, pregnancies, work related moves, illnesses and other assorted challenges, the Burnaby Lake 2nds team has only been able to put together the bodies for 2 matches this year. While disappointing on one level (losing 20 players between two teams is never easy),
it is heartening to see the new players coming in and working hard as the team rebuilds.
The 10 players that donned the Blue and White on Saturday did themselves proud from the opening to final whistles. Congratulations up front to Jessica Tortoora, and Sandy Smith for their strongest outings to date for the club doing the kind of hard work up front hat secures the ball and gets us going over the gain line, and further recognition for winger Kathy Sum who carried the ball well
and fearlessly tackled players twice her size.
Devon Luca opened the scoring for Burnaby early in the first half, taking a superb angle on an Aly Govorshin pass to a gap. The Ridge Meadows cover could only chase in vain as Devon took the ball half the field to touch down between the posts. Becky Querido added the extras for a 7 – 0 lead.
Burnaby Lake debutante Pam Goddard, playing at Outside Centre, then began to make her presence felt with a number of move ending tackles, as the Burnaby slide and glide defense constantly forced the Ridge Meadows ball carriers into Pam’s bomb sights. Ridge Meadows contested well, but Burnaby’s defense would hold out for the remainder of the half.
Queue the second half, and Burnaby once again opened the scoring with Aly Govorshin crossing the line from a midfield break orchestrated from a set piece move. Aly dished to inside centre Devon Luca, who drew her defender to the inside while Aly looped around to take Devon’s pass at pace and on a good line straight up the gap. The try was unconverted.
Burnaby’s third and final try came from a good support run from Devon Luca (who had a player of the game performance) as she outpaced the cover to dot down 10 meters from the touchline. Again the try was unconverted.
Burnaby now led 17 – 0
Queue the Ridge Meadows comeback. At this point Larissa Chatt decided to impose herself on the game. Running everything from tap penalties and taking complete charge at the base of the set piece or breakdown, Larissa orchestrated two hard worked tries for Ridge Meadows with Dawn Granholme and Lindsay Hill touching down and Larissa converting the first score.
The second try was scored at the final whistle, and the game ended 17 – 12 for
Burnaby Lake.
Many thanks to Ridge Meadows for matching the numbers, and providing a body to us when a Burnaby player went off with an injury.
