First Game of a double header

WITH MAGPIES SITTING PRETTY AT THE TOP OF THE LEAGUE AND THIS BEING A LOCAL DERBY THERE WAS A LOT AT STAKE TODAY FOR BOTH SETS OF PLAYERS. MAGPIES TOOK THE GAME TO IWADE FROM THE START AND CREATED 2 EARLY CORNERS THAT WERE DEALT WITH BY THE IWADE DEFENCE AND THEN ON 7 MINUTES NATHAN YATES FIRED JUST WIDE FOR IWADE FROM THE EDGE OF THE AREA.

ON 10 MINUTES A MAGPIE FORWARD BEAT THE OFFSIDE TRAP AND RACED ONTO GOAL BUT PUT HIS SHOT WIDE OF THE GOAL.THEN ON 15 MINUTES A MAGPIES FREE KICK WAS WELL SAVED BY IWADE KEEPER CHRIS HOGG. ON 17 MINUTES A LONG THROW FROM IWADES DEAN ROGERS CAUSED HAVOC IN THE AREA AND SHANE LAWRENCE SHOT JUST WIDE. 2 SAVES FROM IWADE KEEPER CHRIS HOGG ON 17 AND 20 MINUTES KEPT THE SCORE AT NIL NIL AT HALF TIME IN A TIGHT MATCH.

IWADE STARTED BETTER SECOND HALF AND WENT CLOSE FROM NATHAN YATES IN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES AND THEN SHANE LAWRENCE FROM A DEAN ROGERS LONG THROW WHICH HIT THE MAGPIES POST ON 7 MINUTES MAGPIES PUSHED AND A HEADER FROM A CORNER WENT JUST OVER THE IWADE BAR

BOTH TEAMS WERE COMMITTED AND WHEN A MAGPIES FORWARD WAS CLIPPED ON 15 MINUTES OF THE SECOND HALF IN THE AREA A PENALTY WAS AWARDED. UP STEPPED THE MAGPIE FORWARD AND PLACED HIS SHOT LOW AND HARD TO THE BOTTOM LEFT HAND CORNER BUT CHRIS,THE CAT, HOGG FLEW ACROSS AND PUSHED THE BALL ONTO THE POST AND IT WAS CLEARED TO SAFETY BY IWADES JOE LEE.

WHILE MAGPIES WERE STILL REELING FROM THE PENALTY SAVE IWADE ATTACKED DOWN THE RIGHT FLANK AND A SHOT FROM LUKE BARNEY WAS ONLY PARRIED BY THE MAGPIES KEEPER AND FELL TO NATHAN YATES WHO SWEPT THE BALL INTO THE MAGPIES NET TO PUT IWADE 1 NIL AHEAD. MAGPIES HAD A COUPLE OF HALF CHANCES BUT IWADES DEFENCE HELD ON FOR A 1 NIL WIN IN THE FIRST OF 2 GAMES.

IWADES MANAGERS PLAYER OF THE MATCH AND PARENTS PLAYER WENT TO KEEPER CHRIS HOGG WHO WAS SUPERB THROUGHOUT.