Cambridge South Ladies, sponsored by PwC, bounced back well after their defeat last week, despite looking nervous for the first few minutes. Having left Cambridge bright and early they were on the pitch, before the home team, warming up under the guidance of Harry Potter complete with magic purple book.

But as ever things didn't quite go to plan initially. Bourne were awarded a short corner early on in the match (reminiscent of last week). The ball was missed by the lady at the top of the D but was retrieved by the foot of the player backing up, who passed it into the D where it was shot a goal. Reports of what happen next vary depending on who you ask. Ball few past Loopy only to be stopped at waist height, on the line by Jodee who cleared the ball OR ball flies straight into the goal. Unfortunately for South the umpire saw the ball in the goal and South were 1 - 0 down.

But unlike the previous week, their heads didn't go down, indeed it had the complete opposite effect: South were determined to right the wrong. There followed a period of play where South push forward, Hayley in particular had some great weaving runs, demonstrating some excellent close stick control which rattled Bourne so much so that they felt the need to hook her back by the ankle. Unfortunately the resulting short corner was fired just past the left post.

Undeterred, South got the goal they deserved after some fine interplay by the midfield and forwards Tash tucked the ball home. Moments later along came the second goal; Gemma picked the ball up in the middle of the park ran forward, slipped the ball to Tash who dinked it past the keeper and South had a second.

It didn't stop there, the first half contained lots of short corners for South and many shots of goal. One such shot from Hayley was initially saved for the keeper but in the mêlée that followed Tash managed to poke the ball home for her hat trick. So South were looking good and had adapted well to their new look line up, with players out of position due to Tuesdays demonstration that keeping you head up is a good idea.

The second half was again dominated by South. Hayley was unlucky not to score after her short corner, which flew past the keeper was ruled not to have come out of the D. Despite having amazing vision for infringements at short corners the umpires did nothing about the extremely physical game being played by Bourne until Sarah had had enough of being barged off the ball and turned to face the Bourne player and asked if she could "stop pushing people …. please". Just goes to shows how polite South are.

Anyway South finally scored the fourth after Liles shot at goal only for Tash to save the goal but, thankfully, in doing so directed the ball into Julie's path for her to get her second ever goal. South well deserved to win the game and the margin reflected their possession and dominance over Bourne. South find themselves in third going into the Christmas break.