Street is hat-trick hero as 2's earn home win

Petersfield II 3
Southampton III 1

With two very evenly matched teams the game could have gone either way. Petersfield took the early initiative driving hard into Southampton’s half and were rewarded with a number of consecutive penalty corners. Southampton’s strong defence denied Petersfield’s opportunity to convert their pressure. Southampton responded and the play was hard fought end to end hockey with Petersfield also having to defend hard under pressure. H Plewes and Cornelius showed real commitment to keep the score 0-0 at the break.

Southampton broke the deadlock early in the second half to put the visitors 1-0 ahead. Petersfield settled after a change in formation and promptly countered with a swift ball out of defence up the right hand side with sharp passing through Cleife and J Cooke-Priest to T. Cooke-Priest who drove around the back of Southampton’s defence and setting up Street for the finish.

With two goals in quick succession the match pace turned up a notch and Petersfield, buoyed by the swift equalizer were on the front foot. King picking up a loose pass drove up the centre of the pitch and released to Street to slot pass the Southampton keeper for his second.

Southampton countered and again the play was end to end with combinations of short sharp passing mixed with lengthy aerial through balls from both teams. Petersfield having to defend numerous penalty corners with Broadmeadow proving resilient and acrobatic in goal.

Having had a barrage of well defended shots on goal, Petersfield were awarded a penalty corner late into the second half. The injection was stopped by Cleife for King to drag the ball into the D and slip right to Harris who took the shot. which was saved by the keeper, only for Street to tap in the deflection for his hat-trick.

An excellent match for the spectators, with Petersfield coming out on top.