The Matamata Women's Soccer Team traveled away to Te Awamutu this Sunday and after a difficult game last week against Cambridge in the Uncle Toby's Tournament it was back to business.

Matamata were hoping to dominate the game from the start but this would not be the case. It took a long time for the team to settle into a groove, with a lot of the play being made by the Te Awamutu team. They held their positions well and were physically aggressive towards Matamata, which is one thing that we are not used to.

Although Matamata had a lot of attempts at goal none of them were on target, which seemed to frustrate Matamata even more. The Te Awamutu frontline always sent the ball out wide to cross over but Matamata managed to hold them out with some great running cover defence.

So for a good 30 mins of the first half everyone was running around in circles as the majority of the game was played in the centre of the field.

With 5 mins to go in the first half , Nat Gaskell was brought on and the Matamata Swifts Football Club's top goal scorer did what she does best and finally got one past the Te Awamutu keeper. It was almost like a switch was turned on and Sarah Monteith scored again for Matamata pretty much straight away.

With the half time score at 2-0 and a good talk about changing the game plan, Matamata came back on to the field as a new side.

Matamata slowed the game down and brought it back to basics. With plenty of passing and communication to one another, so this in turned gave the strikers up front more ball to work with.

Serena Jenkins scored 2 brilliant goals that just seemed to glide over the top of Te Awamutu keeper's head and Nat Gaskell added 2 more to her tally with some fancy foot work to beat the Te Awamutu defence and put the ball away into the back of the net.

Over all it was another great game of soccer played by the Matamata women but in the same instance it was also a very frustrating game.

Goal scorers were: Nat Gaskell - 3, Serena Jenkins - 2, Sarah Monteith - 1 and a own goal by Te Awamutu.

Matamata Car Painters player of the day was sweeper Jenn Wild, who managed to get ball to foot every time and clear it out of the danger zone.

Next Sunday Matamata play at home at the Domain with kick off at 11am. The game will be a top of the table clash against Waihi. So come along and support the girls!