Not only did we have enough players this time but was also able to help out the 2nd team with their last minute drop out.

Owen Vaughan opened the scoring after about 3 minutes from a simple tap-in after some confusion in the Ely defence, but Ely won a couple of shot corners and equalised from the second one with the help of a deflection.

South then scored almost from the push back with Richard Marley finishing off a series of passes. The flood gate then opened with Kevin Roland getting a first half hat trick and John Parker also got in on the act.

We then discovered that Ely only played with 10 players. That must have made the team eased off in the second half, but South struck early to make it 7-1. After that we started to lose our shape and Ely got stronger. South did miss a host of chances, some were due to good work from the Ely keeper and some were due to not very convincing finishing. Ely got 2 second from another deflected shot-corner and a third by very determined run by their striker.

South did use the opportunity to pass the ball around well and played some good hockey, but also need to learn to keep it tight even though we were winning by a big margin