Surbiton Women crashed out of the ABN AMRO EHL FINAL8 on a day to overlook within the Wagener Stadium in Amsterdam on Friday morning.
Surbiton misplaced 2-1 to Belgian membership Gantoise, however can be pissed off after conceding a penalty stroke within the first minute, having to play with ten gamers for the final 9 minutes resulting from Steph Elliott being proven a purple card after receiving two yellow playing cards and hitting the put up from their solely penalty nook.
The one actual spotlight was Darcy Bourne’s beautiful equaliser from the sting of the circle within the eleventh minute.
Gantoise took the sport to Surbiton from the beginning with Sabbie Heesh referred to as into motion after simply twenty seconds, however worse was to observe after Leah Wilkinson was caught in possession by Ambre Ballenghien, who was fouled when working in direction of objective in a one on one state of affairs to present Gantoise a penalty stroke.
Stephanie Vanden Borre dispatched the ball into the underside left nook to present Gantoise a lead after simply 58 seconds.
Surbiton had been then put below heavy strain with Noa Schreurs firing previous the left put up after Emilie Sinia arrange the prospect; Marie Lanckneus forcing a save from Heesh and Stephanie Vanden Borre’s shot going huge of the correct put up, all within the first eight minutes.
Eloise Stenner nullified Gantoise’s penalty nook menace, breaking apart the Belgian membership’s first award within the ninth minute.
Having weathered the early storm, Surbiton levelled within the eleventh minute, Bourne discovering the backboard from the sting of the circle to again up her standing as the highest scorer within the Vitality Girls’s Hockey League Premier Division.
However a group in by no means as weak as after they have simply scored, with Gantoise proving the purpose in emphatic style, Sinia sending the ball into the roof of the Surbiton internet a minute later to revive the Belgian membership’s lead.
Surbiton had been struggling by making a number of errant passes and so they had been practically made to pay within the twenty first minute when Robyn Collins’ go led to Ballenghien taking pictures over the crossbar.
Issues went from unhealthy to worse within the third quarter when throughout a sequence of 4 Gantoise penalty corners, Gantoise stored their referral following a foot question however Surbiton misplaced theirs when a shot was not judged harmful when hanging Wilkinson’s hand.
Surbiton survived however the sequence of penalty corners began on account of Elliott’s foul on Ballenghien which noticed her obtain her first yellow card and was to result in her leaving the sphere completely for the final 9 minutes and eleven seconds following a foul on Lara Oviedo which earned her a second yellow card and consequently a purple card.
Within the fourth quarter, Stenner struck the left put up from Surbiton’s solely penalty nook of the match and though Georgie Twigg had a shot saved by Gantoise goalkeeper, Pauline De Ryck and Surbiton, despite being a participant down, put strain on Gantoise within the dying minutes till the Belgian membership lastly managed to expire the clock.
Surbiton pays both Pegasus or ‘s-Hertogenbosch within the Rating Match at 1030 BST on Saturday.
Colin Pike - Surbiton HC
