02-Apr-05

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A rare sunny afternoon in early April and the touring season was officially underway. Not that the paint on the 'End of Season' sign was dry yet, in fact some teams were still playing re-scheduled league matches and a spattering of cup matches. Still, the Dragons have always had strength in depth and managed to pull together a world class team from around the... ah... world. The Spencer 7s are a strange event... three grass pitches with not quite enough goals, nearly enough teams and nowhere near enough alcohol all nestled sweetly in a converted scout hut in deepest, darkest Earlsfield.

The Dragons had been here before, no stranger to Spencer, grass hockey or being and playing drunk. The competition was split off into three pools the winner of each pool and the best runner up over-all contested a semi " final for the honour of having won the competition - a feat that would have been remembered for hours. This year was to have a slightly new format as the Dragons were the 2nd best runners-up and promptly introduced a plate competition against the 3rd place runners-up which they just as swiftly lost.

Still that aside, it was a welcome start to the touring season... a nice friendly day of hockey, next to the bar that enabled the league season and touring season to seamlessly pass from one to another without anyone really noticing.

The results were as follows:

Match	Result	Scorers
Pool Game 1	L2-3	MJ / Vicky
Pool Game 2	D2-2	Tom / Beth
Pool Game 3	W3-1	MJ / Linds / Loz
Plate Final	L1-3	Nick

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Team: Jeremy Porter (GK), MJ, Tom Alexander, Nick Jacobs, Loz Mockery, JT, Lindsey Mclaren, Anna Stuttard, Beth Little, Vicky Wright & Maurissa Allen

Mascots: Simon Riley & Rebecca Ridgeway