Women's 1s v Middlesex

Middlesex 2
LSE 1

It’s Friday morning (well afternoon) and it’s still proving pretty difficult to write this after the debauchery of Wednesday night but we will give it our best shot.

We arrived at the Trent Park campus to find a team of girls, well genetically speaking they were girls but they could easily have beaten the LSE gun club to a bench press competition. Memories of this match last year involve Chrissy running around to her birthday badge signing ‘get down on it’, Polly receiving a ball to her face and our favourite American Nat checking out 11 year old boys, so we were ready for some entertaining once more.

This all started in the locker room when new girl Jade decided to attach a bin bag to her head so as to save it from the torrential downpours that we had experienced en route. The game couldn’t really have started any worse with some big girl putting it past our solid defence within the first 3 minutes, so it was 1-0 Middlesex. After this who knows what could have happened, we have to admit we were surprised they didn’t put at least 8 past us!!! One thing we would suggest to them however is that they learn that waterproof mascara exists, or perhaps black streaks was just part of their scare tactics.

A special mention has to go out to our new favourite yank, Abby, who was running circles around the beasts, it looks like we may actually have found a replacement for Totty, don’t worry though that comparison stays firmly on the pitch. Captain Meenal took one for the team, after nicely stopping a ball from the Russian, with her leg, hope the bruising’s gone down Meenal!

Our other freshers put in solid performances, Ju and Louise proved that they were far fitter than the rest of us, as the thought of running around for 70 minutes was a little too much for some after a summer of pure laziness. A final mention has to go out to Sarah and her green socks, who lifted our spirits in the dying seconds with a beautifully skilful goal.

To be honest after returning from Oakwood resembling drowned rats, the LSE First XI Women’s Hockey team were extremely up for a night out. We all looked extra pretty in our bikini’s and Hawaiian shirts and that’s when the fun began. By the time some of our freshers arrived the rest of us were pretty tipsy (yes yes, notably Munchkin) so they had fun in trying to catch up. Our solid boat race team consisting of Ju, Louise, Sarah and Jade seemed to be the only non-cheats on stage.

To be honest the rest of the evening pretty much turned into a blur after that, time passed a little to quickly for our liking but then Walkabout beckoned. We’re not entirely sure who actually made it as certain 2nd years seemed to disappear, to where is anyone’s guess but probably the number 19 bus.

So once again another Wednesday night with a lack of memories, at least we have some sociable freshers this year who are sure to make their mark in the AU sooner or later. And as for the boys we’d just like to say that we really enjoyed seeing you throw up everywhere, thanks! Oh and that a certain fresher is definitely having double fines all year... sorry!