Dirty Dark Blues’ sour win

Mel Addy on a fierce hockey battle with Oxford

The hockey girls narrowly miss out on a win TOM Porteous

by Mel Addy

Friday November 9 2012, 3:00am

Wed. 7th November - Home
Cambridge: 0
Oxford: 1

Cambridge hoped to use their home advantage to claim their first win against Oxford in seven years, at Wilberforce Road on Wednesday. Having scored, Oxford deliberately broke down play to slow the Cambridge attack, resulting in a yellow card for a particularly obvious foul.

Frustratingly, the Light Blues couldn’t make their superior play and numerical advantage tell: despite dominating possession and territory in the dying minutes of the game, the match ended with a slightly sour 1-0.

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