Nigel Stonham

Chippenham 2, Firebrands 3

CHIPPENHAM suffered a disappointing defeat in their last league game of the season.

With their usual goalkeeper Howard Simons unavailable, Nigel Stonham played for the first time in goal.

It was the visitors who opened the scoring early on following a scuffle in the D. Good tackling from Thomas, Morris and Hamilton in the centre could not prevent another counter-attack from Firebrands and after the initial shot was saved, the rebound was put away with ease for a second goal.

Chippenham pulled a goal back when the skills of Knight broke through the defence down the right hand side and smashed the ball into the bottom corner. Morris then equalised with a hard, fierce shot from the top of the circle.

After the interval, the home team looked stronger but could not find the goal to take the lead. Further strong tackling from Bean, Heartford and Sampson could not stop Firebrands breaking down the right hand side and an excellent stick save from Stonham rebounded out to a free forward in the D who scored the third goal for the visitors.

The score remained at 2-3 right up until the final whistle when Chippenham were awarded a penalty corner. The ball came out to Knight who drag flicked over the goalkeeper but an excellent save on the line gave Firebrands the three points.

11:00am Wednesday 19th March 2008

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