UKC Beach Tournament 21/8/11
Korfball on the beach?? Why not – a lesser known variant of Korfball involves swapping the normal indoor courts or grass for the soft sand of the beach. With a single post and only 4 a side, its a fun but incredibly tiring version of the sport. Reading teamed up with local club Basingstoke for a day out on the Sunny Kent Coast for the University of Kent Beach Tournament.
Sun, Sea and Korf
After a week of torrential rain and distinctly autumn-like temperatures, the sun came out and gave us a perfect weather for a day on the beach. We got off to a slow start and facing some strong teams we couldn’t put away the goals needed to keep up. However, by the 3rd game cobwebs had been shaken off and goals were going in from all over the beach! A comfortable 9-2 victory over Supernova did much to lift the team spirit and we built on this to wrap up the rest of the morning unbeaten.
Despite feeling fairly sleepy after eating a true athletes lunch of chips and flapjack, we pushed on in the afternoon and dispatched our next 2 opponents in similar confident style. After narrowly losing out to the hosts we finished up with a draw against Highbury to round off a fantastic days play.
Overall we topped our afternoon pool and finished 6th out of the15 teams, one better than last time around!
Team: Lucy, Stu, Sam (Reading) Dave, Lucy Matt (Basingstoke).
Everyone contributed to the goal tally including a number of bonus 2 pointers for a long shot from the corners of the pitch. Such was our deadly accuracy that even the cheeky, food stealing, overweight, rats with wings (also known as seagulls) got what was coming to them!
You missed the main scores of the day – 2 hits on a seagull stealing food, one from over 10m distance