Premier Division Review Week Four

Reading maintain their top spot of the Women’s Premier Division with four wins out of four with another impressive 7-2 win over Sutton Coldfield at Sonning Lane where this week Mia Moore secured a hat trick.
East Grinstead failed to keep up their 100% record losing out to a 2-0 defeat at home to Surbiton with goals coming from Ellie Mackenzie & Meg Dowthwaite for the visitors.

Surbiton had also been the last team to beat East Grinstead in Oct 2023 with a score of 4-1.

Bowdon continued winning ways with a 3-0 victory over Wimbledon which is their second successive away win after beating Clifton Robinsons 3-1 a week ago.

While Hampstead & Westminster, secured their third successive win this season after their opening day defeat at East Grinstead (1-0) beating Loughborough Students 5-1 this is also the second victory at Loughborough for Hampstead & Westminster in successive seasons after a 4-0 win last season.

Struggling Clifton Robinsons secured their first point of the season away to Nottingham University with a 2-2 drew despite Nottingham University opening the scoring on 5 minutes with a field goal from Maddie Axford. Clifton responded 3 minutes later with Sarah Jayne Thorburn finding the net.

Clifton started the second half strongly to take the lead with another field goal from Rebecca Daniel on 47 minutes, but again Maddie Axford converted a penalty corner for the university side on 58 minutes. This is the second successive season these teams have drawn after 3-3 draw at Clifton last season.

Birmingham University won 1-0 at Holcombe, Lily Sokhi scoring the only goal in the 23^rd minute.

We will have a round-up of the other EHL Divisions on Tuesday, the Goals of the Week clips will be out on Wednesday and the EHL Premier Preview podcast, looking ahead to next Saturday’s games lands on Thursday evening.

Top Scorers:

Maddie Axford (University of Nottingham) 5

Biba Mills (East Grinstead) 4

Mia Moore (Reading) 4

Abbie Dixon (Reading) 3

Caroline Spence (Reading) 3

Hannah Pearce (University of Birmingham) 3

Issy Yonge (Surbiton) 3

Olivia Shannon (Holcombe) 3

Clean Sheets:

Mila Welch (East Grinstead) 2

Nicola Cochrane (Reading) 2

Amber Walton (Surbiton) 2

Evie Wood (Uni of Birmingham) 2

This week’s games
Saturday 19 & Sunday 20^th October

Saturday 19th

Sutton Coldfield v University of Nottingham 12.00

Clifton Robinsons v Loughborough Students 12.00

Bowdon v University of Birmingham 13.30

Surbiton v Hampstead & Westminster 14.00

Wimbledon v East Grinstead 15.30 

Holcombe v Reading 16.00

Sunday 20th

East Grinstead v Holcombe 13.00

University of Birmingham v Clifton Robinsons 14.30

Bowdon v Sutton Coldfield 14.30

Hampstead & Westminster v Wimbledon 14.30

Loughborough Students v University of Nottingham 15.00

Reading v Surbiton 15.30

Men’s Premier Division leaders, Old Georgians, continue to maintain their 100% winning record with another 5-2 win over Holcombe this weekend, Old Georgians are currently on a eight game winning streak against Holcombe in Premier Division, with Holcombe last beating Old Georgians in September 2020, with a score of 3-2 to Holcombe.

Surbiton were on the road to Cardiff & Met securing a 6-1 victory to give them a 100% winning record with a game still in hand, but it took them a time to get going, scoring five goal of their six goals in the fourth quarter after Cardiff & Met held the score to 1-1 until 55 minutes.

Wimbledon also with a game in hand following their Euro Hockey activity last weekend, saw Ed Horler score their first of four goals within the first minute of the game to secure a 4-2 victory over Southgate

Horler is the second player this season to score within the first minute of a game, Old Georgians Alan Forsyth was the first last weekend against Richmond.

Hampstead & Westminster secured their biggest away win since March 2018 by beating Bowdon 8-0. Five of their eight goals were scored from penalty corners with Matt Guise Brown on a hat trick & Tim Guise Brown on two, the other three goals came from open play two to Tim Cross & one to James Oates.

Richmond’s Scott Wall’s two goals were unable to make a mark on their league campaign losing 6-2 to East Grinstead which gives East Grinstead their second successive win for the season.

Beeston hosted Oxted which produced the first draw between the teams in eight Premier Division meetings ending in 2-2 draw. In an evenly contested game Beeston’s Henry Croft opened the scoring with a field goal on 12 minutes, two minutes later Jamie Batten, responded with netting another field goal for Oxted, followed by both teams scoring in the 58^th minute courtesy of Josiah Wood for Oxted and Gareth Griffiths for Beeston.

We will have a round-up of the other EHL Divisions on Tuesday, the Goals of the Week clips will be out on Wednesday and the EHL Premier Preview podcast, looking ahead to next Saturday’s games lands on Thursday evening.

Top Scorers:

Sam Ward (Old Georgians) 10

Struan Walker (Surbiton) 6

Tom Carson (Old Georgians) 6

Alan Forsyth (Old Georgians) 5

Tom Carson (Old Georgians) 5

Henry Croft (Beeston) 5

Matt Guise-Brown (Hampstead & Westminster) 5

Clean Sheets:

James Mazarelo (Surbiton) 1

Ore Ogunlana (Wimbledon) 1

Toby Reynolds-Cotterill (Hampstead & Westminster) 1

This week’s games
Saturday 19^th & Sunday 20^th October
 

Saturday 19^th
Oxted v Cardiff & Met – 16.30

Richmond v Bowdon – 17.00

Wimbledon v East Grinstead – 17.30

Old Georgians v Beeston – 18.00

Southgate v Hampstead & Westminster – 18.00

Holcombe v Surbiton -18.30

Sunday 20^th

Cardiff & Met v Richmond – 14.00

Oxted v Old Georgians – 14.00

Surbiton v Beeston – 14.00

Southgate v Bowdon – 14.30

East Grinstead v Holcombe – 15.00

Hampstead & Westminster v Wimbledon – 16.30