South West two

Teign A 2

TAVISTOCK A hockey men were seconds away from starting the season with maximum points.

The home side started the brighter with fluent attacks and took the game to Teign from the start. Josh Walker and Barney Megicks looked dangerous for Tavistock and were threatening the visitors’ goal. 

Teign always looked dangerous on the break and nearly caught Tavistock out a couple of times with the long ball with a confident home defence pushing up. 

It was one of the linking moves between Anning, Honey and the attacking Hanson that gave Tavistock the deserved lead when Hanson controlled a deft pass and smashed into the net.

Without sounding like the England rugby, it was the home side’s errors that kept the game tighter than it should have been and Teign equalised with a long ball through a stretched defence.

The game was ebbing and flowing with the home side playing a much more controlled game and they should have put the game to bed, when a penalty was awarded but missed. 

Tavistock eventually took a deserved lead when following a good attacking move, Berry threw himself at the ball and reverse struck the ball past the keeper. With the game looking to be won, Teign just never gave up and pressured the Tavistock defence again and won a short corner, with the final whistle gone. It was the last strike of the game that gave Teign their second goal and a share of the points.