Rover Oxford Ladies will be out to make history when they play a third-round WHA Cup match away to Richmond on Sunday (November 17, 12.30pm).
Lorraine FurneyThey will not take Surrey Division 1 side Richmond for granted and will be keen to move into the fourth round of the cup for the first time.
Zimbabwean Caro Brebner joins the squad for the tie together with Kate Vincent, Alessa Bock, Lyndsay Petersen and Roz Bray.
The game is the second part of a double-header for Rover this weekend, as they have an English League Division 2 match at home to Poynton tomorrow (12.30pm).
It promises to be a high-scoring affair, with the division's top four goalscorers all playing. Last season, the two games between the sides produced no fewer than 13 goals.
Rover are still without skipper Ruth Tuthill, while Lorraine Furney is carrying a calf strain. Rover Oxford (v Poynton, home, Saturday, 12.30) from Say, Griffiths, McVey, Cockshott, Furney, Norton, Mankelow, Hayden, Cooke, Malden, Williams, Cook, McKenna, Brebner, McCulloch.
Rover Oxford (v Richmond, away, Sunday, 12.30): from McCulloch, Griffiths, McVey, Cook, McKenna, Brebner, Vincent, Cockshott, Furney, Bock, Petersen, Bray.
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