The long road trip to Moama for the Kyneton Rangers women’s Div 2 team was not in vain, as they battled out their opponents, Strathfieldsaye Colts.
As the Moama winds howled across the pitch causing havoc, and at times reaching 40km/h, the women did their best to keep the third opponent at bay across the 90 minutes.
Kyneton took good advantage of the wind, opting to shoot with it in the first half after captain, Bec Cole, won the toss.
In a finals match-up where keeper, Jo Mitchell, was expecting to be on the ball a lot, she was held out the back between the posts with little challenges from the opposition’s forwards.
The backline, Lucy Hebborn, Simone Hooppell, Kim ‘Dicko’ Dickins, Lucy ‘OG’ Campbell, made sure they maintained a solid defence and worked with the wind to carry balls up the pitch.
In the midfield, coach Ron Cole rotated around Emily Gloyns, Miranda Minson (1 goal), Beth Houghton, Rebecca Cole, Lenka Thompson, Remy McTaggart, ensuring there were fresh legs on the park to help move the play around.
And the stellar forward line were relentless in their passion to get scores on the board to advance the team to the next round. Sian Hooppell (6 goals), Isha Kuyateh (1 goal), Molly Wilding (2 goals), Samara Gelbart shared the goal scoring love around and made good of most of the passes and assists coming from the rest of the team ensuring a whopping win against the Strathfieldsaye Colts 10-0.
Kyneton’s women’s team now advances to the semi-finals against the Border Raiders next Sunday September 8, 11am.
