Game 5 in the HOB league saw us away to Basingstoke. The sun was out and the conditions were great, the game started at a frantic pace with both teams play not much structure or shape but the Basingstoke pack was knocking holes in the Bracknell defence and soon found themselves 17 nil a head. Bracknell managed to sort just before half-time to finish the half 17- 5 down.
The message at halftime was stop playing their game and play our. The girls came out of the blocks and were soon running in some tries and soon the score was 17 all. Basingstoke bounced back with 2 more tires to make the score 31- 17 and once again the Bracknell girls needed to dig deep and scored 3 more tries with the last one being scored with 1 minute to go backing the score 34 - 31, Bassingstoke came straight back a Bracknell and turned the ball over and were on the attack again. The girls dug deep and the pressure from the defence forced a mistake from Basingstoke and the final whistle was blown. It was a nail-biting game and we all needed to sit down after that performance,