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Contact – Netball!
The things you can see on the way to the pub on a Saturday afternoon can be most entertaining particularly if the sight is one of your favourite pastimes. I was walking to the pub to watch the rugby on Sky when I came across another sporting fixture that caught my eye. I was passing the local sports centre where there was quite obviously a sporting competition taking place with hockey, football and netball tournaments in full flow. My attention was drawn to the latter as one team was making its entrance resplendent in white sweatshirts and claret coloured gym skirts. The girls were gentle jogging around the court. My eyes were drawn as across their backs were a series of single letters spelling out the County of origin of their college. They were obviously university students aged between 18 and 22, ten in total. Their opponents were not quite as uniform in their kit although the skirts were all black but a variety of tops were worn. They were identified as a City polytechnic that had recently been bestowed with the university status in their name.
There was obviously a little needle between the two groups and a quick word with a spectator revealed that this was the final of a national competition and the new entrants from the City polytechnic were regarded as a cheap imitation by their opponents and should not be in the contest. The County set had won through to the final in convincing style winning their other three matches quite easily where the City team had won two matches quite easily, but the semi-final against the traditional finalists of the last few years had been quite close and quite bad tempered.
I was close enough to hear the last minute team talks of both teams and the tone of those meetings set the action that was to unfold over the next twenty minutes. First I heard the City team talk. “Looks like a right group of stuck up rich bitches to me so get into them, little shove here and dig there will sort them out,” muttered a tall blonde who was identified as the captain. “Yeah, remember that slag from London in the last match she had to stop after you kneed her in the twat,” giggled a brunette before she continued, “give these posh tarts a dig and they fall over. We can take them.” The captain concluded, “This whole thing has been a set up to put us down so let’s win it and rub their noses in it.” They stripped off their various tops to reveal their halter-tops; red bodied with white short sleeves all ten revealing shapely figures with bare midriffs. The seven starters pulled on white bibs with red letters to identify their positions and the three replacements pulled on red sweatshirts on the sideline obviously the only three they had between them.
I moved up to the other end of the court as the County team finished an impressive looking aerobic warm up before forming a circle for their team chat. A tall brunette led the briefing with a confident clipped voice she issued her instructions, “Right then this is it these girls think they’re hard cases but they’ve no ability, keep the ball moving and work for each other as normal. We have not been troubled in any other matches and it’s a pity that London lost as they would have been good opposition and after they beat us last year I wanted some revenge. Never mind that now though we are going to thrash this lot and go for a record win, Ok?” The others all nodded vigorously before a well tanned blonde asked, “We’d better watch out for the big blonde, Tracy something she gets a bit physical, she put Louise out of the semi final apparently she kneed her in the groin, behind the umpire.” “Don’t worry about her. I’ll keep an eye on her,” replied the leader and then she added, “We can play it rough as well but we don’t need to, we will win in style.” They stripped off their tops to wolf whistles and cheers from the sizeable crowd, each wore a lycra tank top in matching claret that was moulded to the upper body of its wearer like a second skin the matching claret bibs were slipped on top as the three replacements put their white sweatshirt back on. Each girl’s top I noted had their name embroided on the front, the three girls on the side were: Sarah, Diane and Laura.
The umpire arrived a tall powerful looking woman with shoulder length brown hair tied back in a pony tail she looked around thirty wearing a well cut tracksuit that emphasised her lovely long legs. She called the captains forward for the coin toss. The blonde and brunette stood virtually eyeball-to-eyeball as the umpire gave her instructions and tossed a coin for choice of ends. There was no handshake just a smouldering level of hostility as the teams lined up. The game started with a toss up of the ball in the centre and the first clash of this so called none contact sport as the two centres dug in with their elbows in an effort to get the ball first, the City girl winning and swiftly moving the ball up the court. As she passed the ball forward drawing everybody’s attention to the orange projectile’s flight into the opponent’s d shaped area she slammed her elbow back catching the County team’s centre right between the eyes. The girl tottered back tears welling as her face suddenly throbbed from the blow her little squeal attracting only a look from her team mates, not the umpire. “That’s just for starters bitch, touch me again and I’ll smash your face in,” hissed the assailant.
Attention switched swiftly to the County team’s area of the court as the ball bounced on the ground and four pairs of hands reached for it. The City team’s Goal Shooter Sharon, identified by the GS logo on her bib, grabbed the prize and straightened to shoot for goal; she took careful aim and delivered the first score of the match. The game followed swiftly from end to end for most of the first period with the score quite even at 16 each at the end of the session there had been three or four little incidents with elbows thudding into soft flesh. The period break saw the City team gather around the blonde Tracy for a team chat. “We’re well placed girls they can’t deal with the rough stuff so step it up in the next session, if the umpire is at the opposite end stick one on your opposite number like Suzy did to the centre at the start.” “Yeah nailed the bitch she’s scared shitless of me now I’ve hit her three times, look at her left eye I’ve given her a shiner,” giggled the brunette who had delivered the first blow of the match. At the other end of the court Rebecca the imposing blonde captain of the County team was rallying her team, “Come on girls snap out of it they are just being physical we can deal with it we can stuff them, Karen if that snotty little centre hits you again smack her back and I’ll be right there for you Ok?” “Ok” mumbled a sorry looking blonde her right eye clearly marked from the first session. “You three on the sideline keep an eye out for any dirty stuff and call it, hopefully the umpire will sharpen up and sort out the dirty play but even if she does not we can win easily, play our normal game,” demanded Rebecca as the umpire called the start of the second session.
The players lined up and the ball was thrown up and the two centres clashed again swatting at the ball and each other with the City girl delivering a crisp right hook to her opposite numbers jaw in the melee as the ball bounced to the ground. The County girl sat down heavily cupping her throbbing jaw, “Bloody bitch,” she cried. “Sorry it was an accident,” protested Suzy arms outspread as the umpire blew her whistle. “Settle down girls I believe it was an accident but free throw to County.” The game resumed and as the ball moved away Suzy hissed at Karen, “Got you bitch and there’s more if you win another ball.” “Get lost,” snapped Karen and suddenly the two were exchanging slaps and pulling at each other’s hair as the three County subs yelled for the umpire. The umpire stopped the game and swiftly parted the warring women and gave them a stiff telling off blaming the County player for the fracas before restarting the game. Suzy sneered at Karen, “Good job your mates arrived or I’d have creamed you.” “Get real you cheap slut and play the game,” snapped Karen now nursing a throbbing nose to go with her black eye. Rebecca ran past at that moment and hissed, “Start it again slut and I’ll sort you out.” “Fuck off,” snapped Suzy, “You’ll get the same thing.”
The game continued relatively peacefully for a few more minutes with the County team developing a slight lead 32 – 28 although action on the sidelines was starting to hot up. The three City substitutes had moved closer to the County girls and began to bait them over their pleas to the umpire increasing the tension on the edge of the court as well.
The second session was drawing to a close when the next spat developed the County team had extended the lead to ten points and the elbow digging had started again as the City team struggled to stay in the match. The ball was moving swiftly up court, Karen was faced by Suzy and passed quickly to Chloe, the GS, as Suzy lunged at her jabbing her hard in the stomach. Before the brunette could add to her opponent’s woe Rebecca stepped between them, “Come on then pick on me if you want to fight.” Suzy never needed a second invitation and cracked the taller blonde with a wicked left hook to the face and received a similar blow back in kind and suddenly both teams piled in fists flying. On the sidelines almost in synchronisation the three City replacements piled into the County substitutes each grabbing a handful of hair and pulling an opponent’s head down into a rapidly rising knee crumpling the three smartly turned girls to the concrete and adding to their woes with a swift kick to any exposed part of the body before they were pulled away by various people.
Meanwhile on court the umpire along with a number of teachers and representatives had slowly pulled apart the seven brawling hellcats from each team with exception of Suzy and Tracy from the City Team and Suzy and Rebecca from the County Set who were still ripping at each other’s heads pulling hair and slapping at faces. Karen was on her knees as Tracy beat her around the head tugging her rival from side to side by the hair while Rebecca was in the ascendancy over Suzy. The blonde was holding the shorter brunette by the hair and punching her hard in the stomach as she bent double gasping for breath. The umpire and two spectators eventually pulled the protagonists apart and the two teams lined up staring daggers at each other. The umpire pulled the two captains to the front and gave them a severe lecture on their behaviour with each young woman blaming the other. The umpire finished with a final stern warning, “Now calm your teams down or I will abandon the match, got that?” The two women nodded and pulled their teams into a huddle to pass on the warning. The City girls were losing by 14 points and Tracy’s chat was way off the umpire’s brief. “Look girls this is over they are too stuck up to fight it out let the game restart and on my call of “Countdown” thump the nearest one right between the eyes.” The girls all nodded their agreement and slapped hands as they returned to their positions, Tracy reserving her highest praise for the girls on the sidelines, “You did the business over there if you get a chance do them again.”
The County team similarly moved back onto court confident that the match was all but over and expecting the umpire’s warning to have quelled the City team’s aggression. The match restarted with the City team quickly adding to their lead and there was only two minutes left when Tracy gave her call and all seven members as one clenched a fist and slammed it straight into her opposite number’s face. Instantly there was uproar as the seven County girls reeled away clutching at their faces and the umpire blew her whistle abandoning the match as helpers piled onto the court to keep the teams apart and also on the sidelines getting between the substitutes. The match was awarded to the County team as the City girls stalked off to the changing complex. The City girls received their prizes before retiring to their changing room to shower and change for the journey home.
Rebecca led her victorious team into the changing room and a celebratory bottle of champagne, “Well we showed them cheap tarts, pity they stopped the fight I was knocking lumps out of that mouthy trollop who hit Karen.” The team congratulated themselves sharing experiences from the match and who was thumping whom as they slowly stripped and drifted into the showers. The door suddenly burst open and in piled the City team led by Tracy, “Right bitches, time to pay, get them girls.” Twenty young women were quickly involved in a complete free for all the City girls still wearing their netball strips the County team in various states of undress. Tracy was the first into battle swiftly kicking the blonde Chloe in the groin and as she folded forward lifting her knee into her face, throwing the woman over a bench to the floor and out of the battle. Rebecca was naked in the shower when the invasion began but quickly entered the fray making her way to the big blonde leader from the City.
She did not quite get there before Suzy leapt on her back intent on some revenge tugging at the blonde’s hair and slapping at her head as her weight caused Rebecca to drop to her knees, where Sharon joined Suzy in slapping at the big naked blonde. Across the room the County girl Sarah who had been one of the reserves was battling with her opposite number Carol holding the other woman’s long black hair while slapping her face, “That’s for earlier, bitch.” Likewise Diane and Laura had paired off with the other City substitutes Mandy and Linda, all four were slapping and kicking at each other. Tracy was turning her attention to another County girl having demolished Chloe she grabbed at a girl called Dawn, identified by the sweatshirt she was wearing on top but naked below the waist. The big City blonde grabbed the woman by the short and curlies and pulled her around as Dawn squealed in discomfort. Tracy shoved her viciously into the wall causing the shorter woman’s arms to drop to her sides as the big blonde butted her in the face. Dawn’s nose exploded and she slid unhappily down the wall as her hands flew to her nose now disgorging blood freely down her chin. Tracy let her fall kicking her twice in the stomach for good measure to remove her from the fight.
Karen meanwhile had avoided most of the battle after suffering on court for most of the match. She was looking for a way out when she identified the smallest member of the City team hanging back from the brawl and decided she would fight her to try and stay clear of some of the more brutal battlers scrapping in the confined room. The girl was called Liz and indeed she was the smallest of the City team but could hold her own if threatened but she knew most of her team mates were better fighters and it was only because Tracy liked her that she had not been a bullying victim herself. Liz saw the small brunette eyeing her and she turned to face the threat beckoning the woman on with visibly more confidence than she felt possible as the fight raged. Karen ducked around Sarah and Carol’s battle and rushed at the short brunette. They locked hands and started shoving each other around. Tracy turned from flattening a second member of the County team in time to see her team suffer a loss as her friend Mel was grabbed around the neck by a girl called Alison who ran her into the tiled wall of the shower block. Mel slumped to the floor at the feet of the naked redhead rendered unconscious by the impact and out of the battle. Alison turned around just in time to meet Tracy charging her at full pelt and they both hit the floor and rolled across the wet floor of the shower space. “You’ll suffer for what you did to Mel,” hissed Tracy as she dived on top of the redhead. Alison rolled with the blonde and shoved her across the tiles, “Right, you and who’s army?” she snapped rising to her knees.
Laura meanwhile was despatching Linda to dreamland, the County girl had learnt to box and was slowly hammering the City girl backwards a final combination of left to the belly and right to the chin knocked the woman out laying her flat across a bench. Diane was having equal success against Mandy although her skill with her fists was less professional she had backed her opponent into the corner and was pounding her without mercy. A left right left to the belly denied her victim air and then a follow up of a left and right to each breast drew her opponent upright allowing Diane to step in close and grab her foe’s shoulders before lifting her knee into the struggling woman’s groin twice. She then rendered her hors de combat with a swift right hook to the chin that knocked Mandy to the floor. The other fight between the substitutes went to the City girls as Carol managed to demolish Sarah grabbing her by the hair and whipping her on to a table. She swiftly mounted the table straddling the woman and slammed her head hard into the wooden surface. Sarah started to go groggy as her head slammed into the unyielding service and she was unable to resist as Carol grabbed her breasts and twisted the full orbs viciously before a final slam of the head rendered another fighter out for the count. Carol had little chance to gloat as suddenly a tall brunette grabbed her around the waist and hurled her across the room knocking her from the table. “Get her Amanda,” cried the brunette as she pushed Carol towards an equal tall blonde who turned as her name was called to deliver a straight jab to the approaching woman’s belly. Carol folded over the invading fingers into a side headlock, “Thanks Melanie this one’s mine now,” called Amanda taking control of the woman.
The only other protagonists were Maxine and Kate two girls from the City team who had been slapping at Karen and Amanda but had been pushed apart as various melees had spilled around the room. The two girls now moved together spotting a victim the unwitting Melanie who had her back turned as they approached. Rebecca was still on her knees with Suzy and Sharon slapping at her but she had regained her breath and was about to get back into action, she suddenly ducked forward throwing the unwitting Suzy over her shoulder on to the tiles. A vicious backhand cracked into Sharon’s face knocking her down on her behind as Suzy rolled over and turned sharply straight into a spitting snarling hellcat as Rebecca leapt at her fists flying.
The short brunette stood no chance and was pounded backwards by a brutal onslaught Rebecca smacking at her face then her breasts and belly before finishing her with a clubbing right hand that almost took her head off succeeding in laying her flat out on the floor. Rebecca turned to face Sharon climbing to her feet and delivered a perfect roundhouse kick to the side of the woman’s head. As Sharon brought her hands up she received another snap kick to the belly folding her forward. Rebecca grabbed a handful of hair and dragged the woman across the floor and lifted her knee into the woman’s breasts to straighten her up. A low punch to the centre of the woman’s netball skirt caused Sharon’s mouth to form a perfect “O” of surprise that stifled the scream as another punch piled in lower than the first and an uppercut knocked her out of the fight. At the same time Melanie was slipping to the floor the victim of a twin assault from Maxine and Kate who had grabbed her and turned her around before destroying her with a series of punches. Each woman piled blows into her belly and breasts then alternated knee lifts into her body as she fell forward before an elbow between the shoulder blades dropped her to the floor and out for the evening.
Amanda meanwhile had not had everything her way and she had lost her grip on Carol as she slipped on the wet tiles and the suddenly released woman used her street fighting skills to good effect swiftly sweeping the blonde’s legs from under her causing her to crash to the floor in an untidy heap. Carol grabbed Amanda’s left leg pulling it up from the floor and spreading her legs wide before stamping hard on the wide-open crotch below her. Amanda screamed and sat up straight into a sharp kick to the face that put her out of the fight and flat on her back where Carol stamped on her again vindictively. Rebecca turning away from her latest victim saw Maxine and Kate finishing Melanie and congratulating each other with high fives, which she rudely interrupted by grabbing each woman by the hair and slamming their heads together. The two women brought their hands up but to no avail as Rebecca slammed them together again with Maxine taking the worst of the impact. Her eyes glazed and her knees buckled if it was not for Rebecca holding her hair she would have collapsed to the floor, the tall blonde held the woman up as she then backhanded Kate across the throat causing her to totter a few paces backwards. Rebecca turned her attention to the woman kneeling next to her and punched her in the face before she realised she was out for the count and let her slump to the floor. Kate came back at her and grabbed the blonde’s long hair but help was at hand as Diane came to the aid of her captain and pulled Kate’s head back by the hair. “Grab her arms, Di,” called Rebecca as she started to strike at the City girl. Between them they reduced the City player to pulp as Diane held her arms in a full nelson while Rebecca freely punched her in the belly and breasts. Kate was reduced to wild kicks at her attackers and one of these produced a swift end for her as Rebecca caught her wildly swinging left leg and held the limb captive. “Oh dear what shall we do now?” cooed Rebecca as she held onto the woman’s leg. “What do you think, Di?” she added. “Smash her sex in,” hissed her teammate from behind the now wildly hopping City girl. Rebecca followed her instructions perfectly snapping her right foot swiftly and viciously into the woman’s crotch three times. Kate whimpered and gagged as her body was assaulted and she collapsed to her knees from where Diane finished her off by slamming her bodily to the floor. Rebecca looked around to assess the state of battle and was satisfied that her team was now well on top with a large number of the City team beaten out of the fight she could only see three of their opponents left Carol, Liz and most dangerous of all Tracy.
The big blonde was still in the shower area brawling with Alison the two were fairly evenly matched the redhead from the County was the team vice captain and not far behind Rebecca in fighting ability. The two had been at each other viciously in the showers. Tracy had started in full netball strip but had lost her top in the battle and her skirt was coming apart her lacy red bra still held her firm good looking breasts while the redhead was naked. Each had a handful of the others hair and they were punching at each other; each was marked on the face and around the body where blows had landed. Rebecca made a swift decision directing Diane to help Karen and taking Laura with her to confront Carol gambling that Alison could survive for long enough to allow them to get to her aid. Carol was getting well into the swing of battle having removed two of the County girls from the fight and having just destroyed the blonde at her feet was looking for her next victim when Rebecca prodded her in the back. “Hello bitch,” called Rebecca as the surprised woman turned towards her, “now let’s see if you can fight a real woman.” Carol turned to face her questioner and was ready for a one on one fight when Laura joined in swinging her foot in a tight arc to the woman’s belly. Carol whooshed out air as her stomach collapsed around the kick and she fell forward into a rapidly rising left hook from Rebecca that cracked into her right between the eyes. Carol was knocked upright her head spinning as Rebecca closed in and kneed her firmly in the belly, doubling her up. This allowed Rebecca to lock on a side headlock, which she used to good effect as she sat down, slamming the trapped woman into the floor putting her out of the fight.
By the door Diane’s arrival tipped the most even battle in the favour of the County girls. Liz and Karen had been pushing and shoving and kicking each other in the shins with the occasional bit of hair pulling. Diane slipped behind Liz and slipped her arms around the shorter woman’s neck and clamped on what could best be described as a sleeper hold as Karen looked on stunned. “Hit her then,” screeched Diane as Liz started to kick wildly. Karen slapped at the captive but it was the sleeper that put paid to the City girl as her struggle slowly subsided and she drifted towards a state of unconsciousness. Liz went limp as Karen slapped her across the face and Diane released her letting the woman slump to the floor. Meanwhile in the shower space Tracy had gained ascendancy and was astride the naked Alison mauling her breasts after stunning the redhead with a head butt, each woman was marked around the face. Tracy had a trickle of blood from a split lip while Alison had a steady stream flowing from her nose. The big blonde was now well on top though and was twisting at her opponent’s breasts before she grabbed a thick handful of red hair pulling the woman’s head up allowing her to punch her in the face. Alison flopped to the floor beaten after a long brutal battle as Tracy slid forward to sit on her face and enjoy the moment. “Get off her you dyke,” echoed Rebecca’s voice across the shower area. Tracy turned to the source of the voice rising from her victim as she did so to face her foe. “Want some come on then?” she sneered at the blonde leader of the County team. Tracy was confident that her girls were holding their own and so charged at the other blonde expecting this to be the end of the contest. As the two locked arms she then saw how wrong she was as the rest of the County team stepped forward to support Rebecca. Karen, Diane and Laura flanked their leader and as the two strong girls locked arms they moved forward menacingly to offer their support. It did not take long the four women set about knocking the fight from the woman as Rebecca held her hands each delivered telling blows to her stomach and she slumped to her knees before them. “Well bitch it’s over,” sneered Rebecca as she drew her knee back and ended the contest by slamming it into the woman’s face knocking her out. Rebecca slid astride her final victim and sat on her face her nakedness rubbing on the beaten woman’s mouth and nose. “Right girls throw the rest of those sluts out then let’s go celebrate, we beat them on court and here, check the others are alright while I enjoy this.” With that she slapped at the battered face of Tracy until the blonde stirred before she slid back over her mouth. “Now you whore kiss my arse then you can take your sorry butt and those of your so called team back home.” Tracy was completely beaten and suffered complete humiliation at the hands of the County team as Rebecca relished in her team’s success.
THE END