Carlisle Ladies Firsts have found it tough going so far this season and they had a stern test with a visit from Golborne and Prescott Firsts.
It proved exactly that, and with Carlisle’s defence under pressure from the start the visitors eventually ran out comfortable 8-0 winners.
Right from the opening two minutes Carlisle saw the power of the visitors and Anna Thompson did well diffusing two dangerous attacks.
However, after ten minutes Imogen Kelly struck for the visitors, somehow managing to get her shot away as she lost her footing and fell, her shot just beating the diving Christine Walker-Small in the Carlisle goal.
Prescott then had a couple of short corners awarded to keep the pressure on the home team, the second of these cleared by the defence to give Thalia Kasiera Carlisle their first real chance. Running into the D she was only to be stopped by two defenders teaming up well.
On 15 minutes Hannah Wales scored Prescott’s second from another short corner while Carlisle’s keeper Walker-Small made a couple of good saves.
One of them saw Prescott’s Kelly try to hook the ball into the net, but Walker-Small had the nous to knock it up in the air with her glove before clearing it.
On 34 minutes Eve Bolton made a run from just inside her own half into the D and shot home to give the visitors a 3-0 lead at the break.
Any thoughts Carlisle had of staging a second half comeback were ended during the first seven minutes of the second half.
On two minutes Ally Midlam scored Prescott’s fourth, with a spectacular shot for which she dived full length to get her stick to the ball. Some 90 seconds later Charlotte Midlam added number five and after seven minutes Bolton scored the sixth.
On 15 minutes from another short corner Midlam scored her second and her side’s seventh.
Even though the scoreline didn’t reflect it, Carlisle were playing some good hockey with Abbie Smith and Katie Walker-Small running at the visitors and causing them problems. It was Walker-Small who saw Carlisle’s best chance go just wide on 25 minutes from a short corner.
The scoring was rounded off on 33 minutes, as the hard working Kelly was rewarded for her afternoon of non-stop running with her second.
