Reserves
Crockenhill 1-9 Gills Ladies Reserves
Published by Gillingham Ladies Media on March 29, 2010
The reserve teams’ fantastic form just goes on and on as they hammered opponents Crockenhill 9-1 on Sunday afternoon.
With this win they consolidated their position at the top of Division One East as they head into the final games of the season.
Goals on the afternoon came from Kirsty Goodall who scored a brace, Kylie Overton who got yet another hat trick for the reserves. There was also a brace for new signing Megan Cavell and one a piece for Gemma Ridge and Chloe Jamieson.
Report by CHRIS DICKETTS
Manager Sean Edwards named shuffled his pack once more as new signing made her first start of the season, after impressing in recent weeks as a substitute. Gemma Ridge was the player who made way in the starting line up.
One sour note from the afternoon was the nasty looking injury sustained by Lauren Harris who has been in fine form in recent weeks. She had to be carried off on the hour mark with what looked like possible ankle ligament damage.
The Gills were on the back foot in the opening couple of minutes as Crockenhill won two early corners but failed to convert either half chance.
The Gills were ahead after five minutes though when Megan Cavell latched onto a through ball from Kylie Overton and slotting home.
Just minutes later she came close to adding to the score line when she saw a fine header crash back off the post.
In the 12th minute Kirsty Goodall worked the ball down the right wing and found Cavell, she repaid th favour to Overton, by sliding in a pint point pass and Kylie made no mistake with her shot finding the back of the net for 2-0.
In the 25th minute Overton got her second goal of the game as Kirsty Goodall turned provider for the striker to score her 13th goal of an impressive season.
With the half time whistle approaching the impressive Cavell netted her second goal of the game after a well worked team move.
That is the way it stayed heading into half time on a pitch that resembled more of a ploughed field than a football pitch.
Half time 0-4
Sean Edwards made one change at half time handing Ruth Jackson her senior debut in goal to ensure she got some game time before replacing Jessica Nunn between the posts next week.
In the 53rd minute the result was put beyond any doubt when Leanne Stevens whipped in a pin point cross that Kirsty Goodall got on the end of to make it 5-0.
Goodall then got her second goal of the game just after the hour mark when she tucked away a well taken shot into the bottom corner.
The game got a little bit heated just a minute afterwards; Cavell went in on a Crockenhill player and was rightly booked. However the Crocks player retaliated was also rightly sent off for lashing out at the Gills striker.
Substitute Chloe Jamieson had been on the pitch for seven minutes when she lashed the Gills seventh goal into the back of the net.
Goal of the game was saved until last when in the 72nd minute Gemma Ridge cut in from the left wing and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner from 25 yards out.
Bizarrely in the 80th minute Crockenhill found themselves down to nine players when whilst getting a talking to from the referee and a yellow card, she just walked off inexplicably.
Crockenhill got a consolation in the 87th minute when a lapse in concentration on the Gills defence let in the Crocks who tucked away their one real effort on goal.
The Gills were not finished and rounded off the scoring in the last minute when Kylie Overton slotted home their ninth of the game and her hat trick.
With rivals Ashford and Milton and Fulston only playing out a draw on Sunday afternoon the title is very much up for grabs and the Reserves have their fate in their own hands.
Girl of the Match: Megan Cavell
Gills: Nunn (Jackson, 45), Bolden (c), Foster, Lester, Scott, Goodall, Russ, Stevens, Cavell (Jamieson, 63), Harris (Ridge, 60), Overton