Tunbridge Wells Foresters vs Cray Wanderers – SCEWFL Premier – Sunday 15th September – Match Report
Tunbridge Wells Foresters Ladies 3
Cray Wanderers Women 7
(Jackson (4), Kulishko, Gregory, Blanche)
Report courtesy of Claire Willicombe
Cray Wanderers Women continued their great start to the season and made it back to back league wins to begin the SCEWFL Premier after a thrilling game at last season’s runners up Tunbridge Wells Foresters to go top of the table on goal difference.
Tunbridge who won their opening two games in FA Cup and league scoring fifteen goals in the process and took the lead after just two minutes.
However, Cray had a purple patch and Millie Main and Olivia Gregory shot over the top. Then Cray levelled when Emily Symonds won the ball and found Hrystyna Kulishko who exchanged passes with Kiera Syms to set up Katie Jackson who slotted home a cool finish.
Straight from the kick off it was 2-1 when Kulishko won the ball and found Jackson who played a ball through to Kulishko won finished well for her second of the season.
It was soon 3-1 when Symonds found Jackson whose shot was saved and the rebound and turned in the rebound.
Shortly after Syms won the ball and played a pass thorugh to Jackson to complete her hat-trick and make it eight for the season all before half time. Cray also came close through Ellie Cole, Jackson, Symonds and Main but Foresters had chances too and hit the post twice.
HT: 1-4
Foresters came out the second half laying siege to the Wands goal and pulled a goal back to make it 4-2 as the game was going from end to end.
Sam Sharp had to make two excellent saves before Orla Leech made it 4-3 from the edge of the box.
Cray had to defend stoutly to withstand a couple of Foresters corners cleared by Lauren Henry but Cray regrouped an restored the two goal advantage when a long ball by Hannah Gilmour found Jackson who set up Olivia Gregory who cut inside on the right to curl a fine shot into the net.
Jackson came close twice and had the ball in the net disallowed for offside but made it 6-3 when Ellie Cole on the left found Jackson who ran into the corner and flashed a ball across for Annemarie Blanche to score.
Cray then controlled the game with the home side resorting to shots from distance with Sharp outstanding although Foresters hit the post late on.
Finally, in the last minute of a breathless game, Jackson scored a fourth to make it 7-3 to complete a prolific scoring start to the season.
In the end Cray came through a tough game with flying colours and with ten goals in two games have set down a marker for the season in a match that could have had even more goals.
Next Sunday (22nd September), Cray return to FA Cup 2QR action as we host Comets WFC at Flamingo Park, KO: 2 pm
Cray: Sharp, Henry, D’Urso, Webster, Cole, Symonds, Syms, Kulishko, Gregory, Main, Jackson – Subs: Gilmour, Blanche, Smith, Goldsmith, Chenery
Tunbridge Wells Foresters: Fothergill, Rabbitt, Lippiatt Durnell, Smith, Allen, Bliss, Moran, Carter, Underhill, Stokes, Leech: Subs: Evershed, Stapleton, Gibb, Baker, Flach
