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WOODLEY UNITED started the year in style by smacking nine past Carterton without reply.
Fielding an unchanged side from their last outing five weeks previously, Woodley showed no signs of rust as following the home team kicking off, Mollie Haines opened the scoring after 25 seconds reacting first to Maddie Sawyer’s blocked shot.
On a narrow bumpy pitch United used the width well and forced home keeper Lynsey Burdock to save twice before Haines extended the lead in the ninth minute when she received a long pass form Michelle Quinn to run at goal and score inside of the bottom of Burdock’s right hand post.
Haines was denied her hattrick on the quarter hour mark for offside but did net her third in the 23rd minute when she converted a penalty kick following a foul on Sarah Lawrence.
Despite Woodley’s possession, keeper Sophie Cheadle having little to do in the first half and May Hamblin being denied by Burdock in the 40th minute, it was not until three minutes being half time that a fourth was scored when Hamblin fired in to the top corner a clearance from Ellen Surtees’ free kick.
A fifth was denied on the stroke of half time when Leema Galloway scrambled a goal bound shot of her goal line.
United were slow to start the second half, allowing the home team their best attacking spell of the game which saw Zoe Pugh have Carterton’s first shot on goal from the edge of the visitors’ penalty area that Cheadle comfortably caught.
However, when a cross field pass from Sophie Measham to Lawrence on the right wing allowed the winger to run and goal and score inside the far left hand post for United’s fifth goal on 57 minutes, the match reverted to that of the first half and Woodley attacking at will.
Haines scored her fourth with a thunderous drive from close range following a Holly Wilkins seven minutes later and Wilkins also supplied cross from the left flank, with a quarter hour remaining, that found right back Charlie Evans unmarked to tap home from close range.
Wilkins was to be denied by a double save from Burdock before Surtees extended the lead to eight with nine minutes remaining when she received the ball just inside her own half from Cheadle’s free kick and ran at goal before shooting over Burdock and under the cross bar.
The scoring was completed in the 88th minute when Steph Slann passed to Surtees to draw the advancing Burdock and pass sidewards for left back Wilkins to score her first goal in nine years.
Woodley United: Cheadle, Evans, Wilkins, Quinn (Measham), Simms, Surtees, M Haines (Routledge), Sawyer, Hamblin, Messitt (Slann), Lawrence
Goals: Mollie Haines x4, May Hamblin, Sarah Lawrence, Charley Evans, Ellen Surtees, Holly Wilkins
