28th Mar - Cup results!The 1st team march on in the cup, although by default after Abingdon called off their game. The 3rds, in their first ever OKA game, gave Oxford City 3 a scare but went down 16-10 and will now go into the plate.21st Mar - Demo time!Ourselves and MK City did a demonstration at the Sport Milton Keynes awards last night, and showed korfball to a whole new audience!
18th Mar - 100% record!Our 1st team completed the league season with a 100% league record! We finished in style by beating Oxford City 17-7. The crucial 2nd team match against Didcot has been postponed and we will post on here as soon as we know the new date. Didcot did play the 3rds in a friendly, which we won 9-7.18th Mar - New videos!New goals on the video page, take a look! (I do have footage of about 8 more 2nd team goals, but getting the camcorder to release them is proving tricky at the moment...)10th Mar - Narrow defeatThe 1st team narrowly lost a nail-biter friendly match 14-11 against a Cambridge City team.5th Mar - League MK set for tight finishDoodles' Poodles threw League MK wide open by defeating an understrength MK Spandau, who would have sealed the title with a win, 12-3. In the other match, MK Hotshots and MK City drew a thriller 8-8.25rd Feb - Storming 2ndsThe 2nd team's best performance of the season saw them demolish Oxford City 3 16-3 to do the all-important goal difference wonders in the neck-and-neck race for the OKA Division 2 title. Match report23rd Feb - Cup Relief!The first team, despite missing several regulars, avoided a potential banana skin by defeating Oxford City 1 11-8 in the OKA Cup first round, but the second team went down 16-9 in a difficult draw against Oxford Uni 1. Match reports12th Feb - Champions Again!Our 1st team are Oxfordshire League Champions once again! We made it a mathematical certaintly by beating Basingstoke 19-7.
The 2nd team kept the chance of a league double alive by coming back from 3-0 down to beat Abingdon 2 8-6, and the 3rd team played their first ever game, beating Reading Uni 5-3. 8th Feb - No TrainingSnow = Courtside closed = no training :-(4th Feb - League MK ResultsAfter two tight games, the league's leading two sides both came out with wins, MK Spandau beating MK Hotshots 7-5 and Doodle's Poodles beating MK City 7-4.28th Jan - Double wins!Tonight, the first team made sure the league was all but sewn up, with a 22-16 win over Abingdon, while the 2nd team were involved in yet another nail-biter in their must-win game against Oxford City 2; a last-minute penalty from Mark secured the 12-11 win! Match reports here.23rd Jan - Spandau top League MKMK Spandau remained unbeaten in League MK at the halfway point with a 15-7 win over MK City, while Doodle's Poodles edged a tight game 11-9 against MK Hotshots.16th Jan - A Close ShaveIn the team's closest league match of the season so far, MK1 came through a tough test against Oxford Uni 1 to finally come out on top 10-8. Then, MK2 managed a 7-7 draw with Oxford Uni 2 after a late equaliser. 1st team match report here.16th Jan - Cup DrawThe OKA Cup draw has happened, and the first matches for our teams (we have also entered a third team!) are:18th Feb - Oxford City 1 vs MK1 18th Feb - Oxford Uni 1 vs MK2 25th Mar - MK3 vs Oxford City 3 7th Jan - Balls!We went on the first club social of 2007 on 5th Jan to watch a very exciting MK Lions basketball match, and Specky, Nov and Katie decided to have a go at the half-time shooting challenge (£1 for one shot from the free-throw line, keep the ball if it goes in). Three perfect shots later, this is the result... 31st Dec - Christmas pics!Some pictures from the Christmas do at Spice Lounge are now online!27th Dec - 2007 fixturesThe fixtures for the remainder of the OKA and League MK seasons are now online!18th Dec - Merry Christmas!We are now having a break for Christmas, so there is no training on Dec 21st or 28th. We will resume on January 4th!18th Dec - League MK resultsThe second round of League MK matches took place on December 17th, with wins for two of the Bucks teams. MK Hotshots came out on top against new club MK City, and then MK Spandau won the inter-Thursday clash against Doodle's Poodles.11th Dec - No luck in the cupDown in Epsom, despite much of the match being very close, a six-goal haul from Specky wasn't enough to keep the first team BKA cup run going, as the team eventually went down 11-20 to an experienced Nomads 2 team.3rd Dec - Great league resultsIn the final OKA games before Christmas, a solid first team performance saw off Basingstoke 15-2 to keep the 100% league record going, while goals from James and Paul in the last five minutes secured a very hard-fought 8-6 win against Oxford City 3 after the whole match had been neck-and-neck.26th Nov - Record win for 1stsThe first team picked up their biggest ever win in the club's history, demolising a six-player Abingdon team 30-4, with Steve scoring eight (yes, EIGHT!) goals on his MK debut. Unfortunately the seconds then found it tougher going against a strong Oxford City 2 team, going down 12-4.20th Nov - Two more winsThe first and second teams pulled off a double win against Oxford Uni first and second teams last night - the firsts, while never quite reaching the heights of the cup and Oxford City wins, still produced an impressive margin of victory 14-7, while the seconds scored plenty of goals to win 12-9.16th Nov - More VideosThe video gallery is now up and running! (Links to BKA Cup goals also added to that match report)14th Nov - VideosWe now have the facility to put camcorder footage on the site! BKA Cup action from last weekend will follow soon, but in the meantime, here are some of last season's goals from Clive, Amanda and Caz. (Windows Media Player files, all about 1meg so broadband recommended!)12th Nov - BKA Cup Success!Two great performances by the 1st team this afternoon saw us through to the second round of the BKA Cup for the first time ever, seeing off tough opposition in National League team Invicta 2 and South West&Wales champions Cardiff Dragons. Big big congratulations to all who played. Report here6th Nov - Nail-biters in League MKThe 2006/07 League MK started last night, with a couple of very close matches indeed. Team C held off Team B 9-7, while Team A were also involved in a two-goal win, 10-8 against MK City. (This will be updated when the teams are given proper names!)30th Oct - Winning start for 2ndsIn their first competitive match of the season (after the previous fixture was called off), the second team ground out a hard-fought 5-3 win last night over Didcot Dragons.25th Oct - Social newsThe social calendar has been updated.22nd Oct - Friendly winWe put out a team to face new club MK City for the first time, and came away with a 10-5 win, with Jon, who regularly trains with both teams, choosing to play for the purple side of MK and scoring not only his first goal in a match, but, in fact, a grand total of 5 goals!16th Oct - Great first match!Our first team produced a great performance in the first OKA league match of the season, to start the title defence in style. Expecting a tough battle against Oxford City 1, a superb all-round team performance saw us extend a 6-2 half-time lead to win 16-6. The second team's first match was unfortunately called off after Abingdon 2 could not field a team.9th Oct - MK1 leave it lateA goal from John T with literally four seconds left on the clock gave the first team a hard-fought 7-6 win against Highbury 1 on 8th October in our final round of preseason friendlies. The second team then defeated Highbury 2 5-1, followed by wins for each club's first team agains the other club's seconds.6th Oct - Social newsSome of us are going to cheer on the MK Dons tonight, then we're going out again on 14th October to celebrate Jon P's quarter-of-a-century birthday.1st Oct - Friendly winWe played our first preseason friendly, sending a mixed-ability team to play away to Basingstoke Bulls. We won a very close match 12-11, with Nov top-scoring with five goals including a last-minute penalty (although the referee had the score wrong at the time so we only worked out afterwards that it was the winning goal!)1st Oct - Home in the CupIn the 2006/07 BKA Cup draw, we will resume battle with Cardiff Dragons once again, but this time we get the be the hosts, as we got the home draw we were hoping for. The third team in the pool will be tough Kent opponents Invicta 2 (second team of the club ranked second in the UK!). Matches will be played on November 12th16th Aug - Tournament winners!We survived the rain in Kent to win the Club Sandwich beach korfball tournament!! Congratulations to all who played in both MK teams. Full report and photos to follow...1st Aug - Mighty Buccaneers at the CountiesMK supplied most of the players for the Bucks (and Beds/Herts/Northants) team at this year's British Korfball Association County Championships in Norfolk from July 29th-30th, and finished 10th, our highest position so far! And, at the fifth attempt over the last two years, we finally beat Devon! Update 7th Aug - Now with some more pictures!. Results to follow...17th July - MK nearly outlast the Vodka!At the Cambridge tournament (July 15th), we smashed our record for highest-finish-in-a-tournament for the second time this summer, drawing the final 4-4 with perennial champions Vodka, and after an initially tied penalty shoot-out, only being a sudden-death penalty away from our first ever tournament victory! Oh so close....26th June - Croydon tournamentWe beat last year's finish of 20th, this time coming 15th (and there were more teams entered as well!), and even beating Bec 1 along the way! Full report to follow...18th June - Success in LuxembourgDespite not winning a match on the first day, our first ever international tournament in Luxembourg came to a successful conclusion as three wins on day 2 left us finishing in 13th place and the second highest British team! There was plenty of fun off the pitch as well!Full report here... 21st May - 3rd in tournament!Indoor korfball for 2005/06 is now finished, so on Saturday 20th May, we competed in the first tournament of the outdoor season, in Oxford, and it was a successful day all round!Tournament report... 14th May - LEAGUE AND CUP DOUBLE!!!!We have now retained the Oxfordshire Cup to add to the league title!
In our last indoor match of the season, a very tight match against a strong Abingdon 1 team saw us 5-4 up at half-time, but we gradually built up a lead to win 14-8! (Yes we know the OKA Cup looks nothing like the World Cup, but it was the best clipart we could find, and it seems quite appropriate, given the timing!) Match report... 8th May - Tigers claim League MK titleIn the final winner-takes-all game in League MK, Tony's Tigers overturned a 1-0 halftime defecit against MK Kestrels in a very low-scoring game, to take the honours 5-2 and win the first season of the new league, with a total of 10 points from their 4 games. The Kestrels themselves finish runners-up with 9 points, with MK Hotshots close behind on 7.More players (either individuals or teams) are wanted next season to expand this league! Find out how to get involved. 23rd April - We are the Champions!Milton Keynes 1st team are 2005/06 Oxfordshire League Champions!
We sealed the title with an 18-10 win over our nearest rivals Oxford Uni, storming into a 6-0 lead and then maintaining it. This is such a great achievement considering it's only our second season!! MK 2nd team won their final league game 8-4 against Oxford Uni 2 and could make it double success - we now need the students to defeat Abingdon 2 if we are going to win Division 2. 11th March - We hosted the BKA Inter-Area CompetitionThe tournament ran all day in Stantonbury Campus main sports hall on March 11th. It was a great day, and Anglia TV also came along to cover the event! The teams were: London, Oxfordshire, British Students, Norfolk, Wales, South West, Scotland, Kent and Central England. Pete, Jon, John, Ali, Katie and Suzanne were all selected for the Oxfordshire team, and played some great korfball against tough opposition; we couldn't quite make the final (it was London and Central England who qualified) but a good time was had by all.Inter-area competition website... As Heard On Radio!We now followed up the TV appearance with a slot on the radio.Read more... Unofficial sponsors of the Concrete Cows |
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