SDFL division two

Foxhole 1

There's a saying that you can only beat what's put in front of you, and when Foxhole arrived with only nine players due to the curse of the Christmas party, it would have been easy for Bees to lose their focus.

As it was, they showed their opponents the utmost respect, never rubbing it in, gloating or showboating.

The game was only three minutes old when Tim Bromfield met a corner from brother Ben to volley home at the back post.

Foxhole battled for everything and it took a further 10 minutes before a neat interchange of passes between George Boehm and Mike Dennis presented Lee Morgan with a simple tap-in.

Within seconds a slack pass from the restart saw Morgan run straight through the visiting defence to round the 'keeper and make it 3-0.

Twenty minutes gone and it was 4-0 when the Foxhole 'keeper tried to throw the ball out from the edge of his area, but the swirling wind took it straight to Boehm, who scored his first goal for Beesands with a shot from 25 yards. Morgan then completed his hat-trick, steering home a Dennis cross-cum-shot on 24 minutes.

Sixty seconds later Rob Niblett scored his first for the club, ghosting in behind the defence to lob a Dennis throw-in over the advancing 'keeper.

Goal number seven saw Paddy Wellens shoot right-footed across the 'keeper from the left corner of the area and Morgan completed the first half scoring, flicking the ball home from Tim Bromfield's pull-back.

Playing the second half with their backs to the strong wind, Foxhole's tactics were to knock the ball down field and hope that Beesands would struggle to get the ball out of their half.

For 15 minutes the tactic worked until half-time replacement Gus Hayward, on for the injured Rob Greenwood, set up Morgan to score his fifth of the game.

Hayward then took the score into double figures, driving Ben Bronfield's cross into the roof of the net, before the returning Jed Tucker came on for Wellens.

Man-of-the-match Morgan completed his double hat-trick minutes later, clinically finishing a slide-rule pass from TJ Lang, before Niblett evaded two challenges in the area to fire left-footed into the top corner.

Foxhole scored a consolation with 10 minutes remaining when a wind-assisted clearance saw their lone stroker outstrip the Bees' defence, giving 'keeper Carl Hoare little chance.

In fairness it was probably deserved as they never once threw in the towel, despite the one-sided nature of the game.

Lang completed the scoring just before the end after his powerful run from midfield left him one-on-one with the 'keeper.