Men Crush UEA

27/01/2010

Cambridge won 25-1

As good as Portsmouth game had been, the next game for the Cambridge blues was against the University of East Anglia which was an entirely different affair. The game was never really going to be close as last time Cambridge had dominated 19-1. Before the game, Cambridge were in 3rd place in BUCS and needed a big goal difference to place second after all games had been played. Unfortunately, the game began fairly slowly with UEA managing to cut up the flow of the game while Cambridge failed to take advantage of a clearly inexperienced side.

Nevertheless, soon the scoring started and the first quarter ended 5-1 to Cambridge. In fairness, the ability of UEA to put a goal on the scoreboard does reflect their determination going into the game. They turned up hoping to cause an upset and it was to their credit that they took advantage of a Cambridge defence that had fallen asleep.

Unfortunately for them, it was to be their last real use of the ball in the Cambridge half all game. The second period was just a continued attack on the UEA goal and finished 10-1 to Cambridge. In the third quarter Cambridge managed to spread the goals around and while Phil Hall finished on 7 goals for the day, he was able to assist others to make the score 16-1 at the end of that quarter. By this point, the UEA team had, understandably, lost some of their former enthusiasm and the final quarter was a 9 goal washout. Highlights include the first two goals in a Cambridge shirt for man of the match Craig Murphy who had been unlucky not to score in the previous quarter.

The game ended 25-1 to Cambridge in a big final game for the BUCS league. Hopefully this will leave the Cambridge men’s lacrosse team 2nd in BUCS and 2nd in SEMLA, as well as being through to the Semi-Finals of the Flags competition. All point to a great build up in the few weeks before Varsity.

By Sam Spurrell