With players playing out of position and playing when not really 100% fit it was a case of battle away and do what you can for the team and luckily for Barton it paid off.
Lauren Care who had a good game on the left wing opened the scoring after 6 minutes with a fine shot fired past the new Hamptons Keeper. Sinead Barry made it 2-0 on 25 minutes, her initial free kick hitting the wall but she fired the rebound into the right hand bottom corner. It was by no means all one way traffic though and Hamptons drew one back on 28 minutes when they were awarded a penalty for hand ball.
Lauren Green playing as stand in keeper saved the spot kick but the Hamptons player was quickest to the rebound and although the keeper got a hand to the second shot she could not prevent it ending up in the net.

Half time 2-1

Barton were reduced to 10 in the second half as one of the midfielders picked up a back injury. Hamptons were pressing for an equaliser and working the Barton defence hard but they held out well.
Debutant Naomi Dauncey scored Bartons 3rd on 55 minutes after running onto a long ball played over the defence by Caroline Kendhammer and beating the keeper. Barton then had to re-shuffle the pack again with midfielder Haylee Loe, who had been ill all week with a chest infection struggling to run,forced to swap with the Keeper. Hamptons then tried to test the new keeper and finally found a way through on 80 minutes. Barton saw off the game in the 89th minute when Katie York headed in a corner swung in by Lauren Care.