http://www.brentwoodhandball.co.uk/index.phpHot News!enmonavaeremans@hotmail.comCopyright 2010 Frederic Vaeremans2012-01-24T20:55:07+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:56:59 +0000monavaeremans@hotmail.comNone2012-01-24T20:55:07+00:00http://www.brentwoodhandball.co.uk/news/files/01316003b9c4615a150bc2fe80b3be8c-24.php#unique-entry-id-24http://www.brentwoodhandball.co.uk/news/files/01316003b9c4615a150bc2fe80b3be8c-24.php#unique-entry-id-24On Saturday, 7th January 2012, Brentwood Handball Club travelled up to Oxford to take part in a tournament for mixed teams with Cardiff and Thames Handball Clubs.

This was the first opportunity for the female players of BHC to play competitive games since the Brentwood mixed tournament in summer 2011, and saw Jo Grant, Stephanie Wardow and Julia Mengin join men's development league players Mark Cory, Terry Ward, Ian Weir, Boris Pini, Sean Briscomb, Rob Grant and Duncan Whitfield.

Brentwood's first game was against Cardiff and Brentwood started the game strongly scoring 5 goals without reply at the start of the match. Cardiff then scored their first goal and the middle 10 minutes of the first half then saw both teams scoring 8 goals to make the score 13-8 to Brentwood. At the end of the half Brentwood increased their lead scoring 4 goals to Cardiff's 2 goals, making the score 17-10 to Brentwood at half time. The second half saw the experience of Brentwood increase their lead further scoring 13 goals to only 4 in reply by Cardiff making the final score 30-14 to Brentwood to give them their first win of the season.

Everyone played really well in this game with top scorers in the match against Cardiff being Rob with 8 goals and Ian and Julia with 6 goals each. Player of the game though, was Jo Cory in goal who saved 17 out of 30 shots on target and even saved a penalty.

After a very short break Brentwood were back in action against a very experienced Thames team. This experience soon saw Thames take an early 3-0 lead which they then extended to a 10-1 lead mid way through the first half. Thames with their large squad then used the fresh legs on the bench to their advantage to extend their lead to 18-6 at half time. The second half saw Brentwood put up a great fight back scoring 9 goals (3 more than in the first half) but once again the experience and large squad of Thames saw them score another 18 goals to make the final score 36-15 to Thames.

Top goal scorers in this game were Duncan with 5 goals and Julia and Rob with 4 goals each. Once again the goalkeepers played well with Jo saving 8 out of 26 shots in the first half and Mark Cory saving 13 out of 31 shots in the second half.

Following this game Thames took on and beat Cardiff in the last game of the day, refereed by Brentwood coach Hans-Jörg Küller Rabaça, which meant Brentwood finished the tournament in 2nd place.

The tournament was great fun for all players and all our players played really well in particular the ladies on the team Jo, Stephanie and Julia who played 2 games back to back with practically no break in between. Jo was excellent in goal saving nearly 50% of the shots on goal including a penalty, Stephanie scored 1 goal and was very good in defence, and Julia used her skill and experience to score 10 goals over the 2 games.

Top goal scorer over the 2 games was Rob with 12 goals. Also on the score sheet was Boris, The Everyman Olympian, who scored his first goal for the club from the penalty spot.

More details about this can be read on:
http://everymanolympian.blogspot.com/2012/01/handball-challenge-oxford-uni.html


The Brentwood Handball team now has one final league match to play on Saturday, 11th February, at their home ground in the Brentwood Centre and hopefully more tournaments for mixed teams to look forward to over the next few months.


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