PKC start with 24‑17 against KZ: Jordaan scores eight

In the previous meeting between the two, in February, KZ won 28‑21 in Koog aan de Zaan.

New coaches on both sides

Both teams began the season with a new head coach. For Mady Tims it was her first indoor home match as head coach of PKC. "It feels just as if I've never been away", she said beforehand.

For KZ, Michael Star was on the sideline as head coach. He received a call fairly late asking whether he was open to it. "Of course I never say no to that", he said.

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In defence, Tims wanted to "put a lot of pressure on as a collective". Star wanted KZ to vary "a great deal" in attack, "so that they are forced to follow us".

Star started with Marijn van den Goorbergh, Carlo de Vries, Anouk Haars and Zoë Engel in attack and with Alwin Out, Mikai van het Kaar, Isa Dik and Esther Cordus in defence. Marjolein Schenk was not yet available. PKC started with Olav van Wijngaarden, Bo Oppe, Jana Driesprong and Rosalie Peet in one zone and Arjen van Houwelingen, Jordaan, Fabiënne van Erk and Brett Zuijdwegt in the other.

Jordaan shoots PKC to 17‑10

PKC began with three long shots in a row, to 3‑0. KZ closed the gap in the 4th minute: Out converted a free pass and De Vries scored twice from distance, 3‑3. Jordaan put PKC back in front in the 5th minute, 4‑3.

With a run of five goals, PKC pulled away from 5‑4 to 10‑4 in the 12th minute. At 10‑4 KZ took a time-out.

Shortly afterwards Out missed a penalty, but in the same attack Van het Kaar scored anyway: 10‑5. Peet's free passes also yielded nothing for PKC in the first half. Van Wijngaarden scored once before half-time, but collected many rebounds in his zone.

De Vries scored six of KZ's ten goals before half-time, three of them from a free pass. With 23 seconds left before half-time, Jordaan won a penalty and converted it himself: 17‑10, his seventh goal.

KZ make changes, PKC stay ahead

For PKC, Zita Schröder came on for Zuijdwegt after half-time. KZ opened the second half with a goal by Cordus, 17‑11.

After the break PKC scored once until the time-out at 18‑12, through Driesprong. KZ had replaced De Vries in defence with Jelle Ekkes, who marked Jordaan closely, and later also brought on Rona Boer for Haars.

After Van Houwelingen's 21‑14, KZ took their second time-out. Star then moved De Vries to the other zone, alongside Out, and Haars also came into that zone. Engel scored 22‑15 in the 39th minute and 22‑16 in the 40th.

KZ got no closer than six after half-time. Niels Stuurstraat, new at PKC, made his indoor debut, and Jordaan then scored his eighth goal, 23‑16. Jari Leemhuis made it 23‑17, and Oppe scored the final goal of the match, 24‑17.

The second half ended 7‑7: after seventeen goals before half-time, PKC scored seven more after the break. Nine PKC players got on the scoresheet, six for KZ.

What they said afterwards

"KZ at home, we've struggled with that over the past year", said Van Wijngaarden, the PKC captain. "If you win it this convincingly, and a lot can still be better, then you can only be satisfied in the first match."

According to Van Wijngaarden, the group was truly together for the first time this week. "It should be clear that the bar has to be higher after last year", he said.

Van Wijngaarden was also pleased with how newcomers Driesprong and Peet defended.

Out, the KZ captain, felt his team had defended creditably. "In the end I don't think 24 for PKC is even that terrible. But scoring only 17 is just really too little", he said.

"We find it too hard to get to goals ourselves", said Out. According to him, the main message KZ got in the last time-out was "that we had to keep going full throttle".

KZ host LDODK on Friday 13 November at 20:30, PKC play away at Unitas on Saturday 14 November at 20:15.