☀️ Queens 32-39 Jaguar 3 ☀️
Queens faced Jaguar 3 in our first match of the summer league this evening and WHAT a rollercoaster it was!
We sadly lost our fantastic Stace just before the match started due to an emergency so were down to 6 – I begged, borrowed and stole with the help of my good pal Lucinda, who helped to rope in Antonia to come and play for us extremely last minute – who EVER so kindly ditched her plans and arrived on court seconds before the match begun! 🙌🏼
The opposition was an extremely physical team with some not-very-clean play (shall we say?!), but Queens absolutely held their heads high and played their own game to the last second. 🥹
We even won the first quarter and played some of the last quarter with 6 when our fabulous new addition Donna suffered an ankle injury! 😢
Consistently strong play with moments of really slick movement and passing meant we played a close match and our connections on court are gleaming – even when many players were out of their first position, covered in other positions when we went down to 6, and got battered and bruised! 🤩
Player could have been awarded to anyone tonight – Frankie and Gemma were both shooting legends; Katie was a workhorse at C and got some great intercepts; Donna and Antonia (the hero of the night) worked the circle and the centre third brilliantly to win ball and bring it forwards, and Lucinda’s arms were everywhere, as always! But the well-deserved award went to Gemma, for tirelessly accurate shooting and wonderful movement. 🫶🏼
Well done Queens, I am immensely proud of this team tonight for pulling through and working together in a very tough evening, and that means more than taking a win. 🖤👑🥰
Written by Sophie – Captain
