Burlish Olympic 7, Evesham Utd Ladies 1 (Abandoned after 78 minutes)

A SPELL of five goals in 20 first half minutes effectively killed the game as far as Evesham were concerned before Sunday's clash was brought to a premature end following an injury to Danielle Hemming.

The Air Ambulance was forced to land on the pitch to treat the injured Hemming who was later allowed home from hospital on crutches after x-rays revealed no break.

Nicky Bond rattled the Burlish goal frame early on but the hosts immediately went to the other end and opened the scoring.

It was 2-0 three minutes later as the Evesham defenders were having problems containing the strong running of the Burlish front pair and it came as no surprise when the hosts netted again.

Another simple goal added to United's problems and balls over the top proved their undoing as Olympic made it 5-0 at the break.

After this period of total domination, United started to get some sort of order to their game and, after Bond had seen an effort cleared off the line, she broke away down the left on the stroke of half- time to send a lob the home goalkeeper.

The second period started with a better performance from the Robins but they were unable to get the better of a physical home defence.

Their best efforts came in a two-minute spell around the hour mark when Becky Handy fired just wide and Lisa Tustin narrowly failed to hit the target.

Burlish scored again in the 67th minute before Hemming's injury caused a ten-minute delay after which Olympic netted for a seventh time before the arrival of the helicopter spared more the visitors more embarrassment.