A "home game" at Bedford resulted in a 9-4 score line. It may sound like a heavy defeat but the game was evenly balanced for most of the seventy minutes.

A ten man Cambridge South team took an early lead after Dave Maynard hammered home following a good flowing move. Bedford soon equalised after being awarded a penalty flick when a defender inadvertently was hit on the foot on the line. Stand-in goalie Geoff Butcher was left no chance.

The game was then fairly evenly balanced but a period of pressure from Bedford saw them take a three-one lead by half time.

At the start of the second half the rain came down. South played some excellent hockey and within five minutes had equalised the scores following two well worked short corners from which Dave Maynard and Steve Fleck scored. However, South then seemed to ease off and allowed Bedford to score five soft goals from open play and another goal from one of the few short corners that they won. CS picked themselves up and scored a fourth goal from Keith Davidson.

So an good effort from 10 men and the score should have been very different.