Hockey: Prescott Men's Seconds 0 - 8 Rochdale Men's Seconds

Rochdale Men's Hockey Seconds Man of the Match was Peter Ransome

Rochdale men's second team made a the journey to Prescott to play the reverse fixture from earlier in the season, and repeated their previous win.

From the pushback Rochdale took a stranglehold on the game and pressed high allowing the midfielders to push up, causing problems for Prescott.

The constant pressing paid off when Bjorne Brauns opened the scoring with a well worked goal.

Prescott struggled to get in the game at any point during the first half, leaving the Rochdale defence with little to do.

Rochdale's second goal came from a great attack down the centre; the ball was passed around in the D and and Niam Willis scored a scruffy goal to double Rochdale's lead.

Prescott did venture into the Rochdale half on occasion, and on one such, Dean Close failed to retreat the permitted five yards given for a free hit. The second quickly taken free hit, saw Close once again not retreating, resulting in him receiving a green card and a two minute suspension. With a quick reshuffle Rochdale absorbed the pressure and Prescott failed to capitalise on the player advantage.

Once Rochdale were back up to a full complement of players they piled on the pressure and scored a third goal courtesy of Graham Broadley, who with a spectacular strike found the bottom left corner of the net.

Before the first half finished Luke Rosebury added a fourth for Rochdale.

Rochdale did not let up in the second half, the defence playing as overlapping wingers was proving to be effective.

A strike from the top of the D hit the Prescott keeper and fell to Broadley who on the reverse popped it over the keeper.

A Rochdale short corner was quickly injected to top D and Broadley waited for the Prescott defenders before he offloaded to Brauns who struck on the reverse to make it six.

With each attack Rochdale were pressing the Prescott D. A cross from Peter Ransome to Close, who was completely unmarked, resulted in the ball in the back of the net.

The last play of the game saw the final goal, and a first for one of the younger players in the squad. Rochdale's most improved player last year, Peter Ransome found the back of the net to score his first senior team goal.

Captain Karl Wynn: "Overall it was a good performance but did also highlight areas we can work on. An aim at half time was to push for more goals and get keeper Brian Robinson his first clean sheet of the season."

The Atticus Promotions man-of-the-match was Peter Ransome.