What a difference a week makes. The delayed start on a bitterly cold evening only encouraged the Cambridge South team to warm up more enthusiastically and run around faster for longer. The result was probably our best hockey of the season, against a decent Wisbech team who played much better than their lowly position suggests.

Cambridge South dominated from the start, with Barton playing the target role in the opposition's twenty-five. Our first goal came through him, as he held off the defenders in his usual bristling style after a long clearance before slipping it to Lewis, who thumped the ball in from distance. We benefited from having a number of attacking options apart from the straight down the middle one. Man of the match Agarwala consistently bamboozled Wisbech with his skills and speed before releasing the attackers. Korstanje was never far from the action and a steady stream of decent crosses arrived in the D from Greaves on the right. We seemed to be learning to make the ball do the work with some great (by Division 6 standards) passes and sensible runs.

The second goal came from Creed, sent on his way by Agarwala on the halfway line. With the defence distracted by our forwards he proceeded unhindered into the D and unleashed a corker past a shocked Wisbech keeper. Our own keeper, Poole, was much less occupied, apart from a spell of six or seven short corners, all kept out by the defence led by Benedikz and Roux. At least Poole was able to show off his sparkling new bright yellow kit during this phase. The third goal, again assisted by Agarwala, arose from his pass to Barton who sidefooted it to the waiting Dijkstra. As he was winding up to shoot, Lewis took the ball and crashed it into the net for a deserved three-nil interval lead.

The second half was more of the same, with more Greaves crosses sadly unconverted and some excellent attacking moves from all angles. The occasional Wisbech attacks were cut out by our well placed and calm defenders, including the stand-in captain Sutcliffe, who controlled things expertly, and left back Matt Jones, playing his best game yet for us keeping the opposition right wing quiet. Poole was called upon to make one fingertip save, which he did confidently - so confidently that he had completely forgotten it by the end of the game. The final and best of the Cambridge South goals was a classic move down the right wing, bypassing the defence with incisive passes to Greaves who dribbled to the corner and crossed hard straight to the well-positioned and unmarked Korstanje, who placed the ball into the net from five yards out whilst all around could only watch in awe.

There were further chances but we were well satisfied with a confidence boosting away win, with no weak links in the team and an encouraging level of commitment and effort continuing right to the end.