Across the EHL | Week Thirteen

Open/Men's Division One North front-runners Repton saw their lead at the top of the table extended to three points after a win plus a draw for nearest rivals Bowdon. Repton beat Olton & West Warwicks, who are bottom, 7-0 including five corner conversions by Si Claris. Bowdon were held 3-3 at Loughborough Students. Having been 1-0 down Bowdon led 2-1 with eight minutes left before a quickfire pair of goals from Lucas Smart and Montgomery Neave turned the game round. Carlos Dolado-Hollyman hit an equaliser with four minutes left, his second goal of the game, but there was no late winner. Harborne took the town v gown honours beating Birmingham University 4-3 at Bournbrook with Jake Litchfield and Cameron Pearce both scoring twice. Deeside Ramblers stay three points from safety in ninth after a 3-3 draw at Durham University. Finn Leonard gave them the lead with just four minutes to go but Kristofer Watt’s  second levelled things up within a minute. Timperley, who are just above Deeside, also earned a point, drawing 2-2 at Nottingham University. They too were denied three points at the death, Zak Buck slotting home a 70^th minute corner for Nottingham.  Note that the Olton – Nottingham University game on 7 February has been revised to 0-5 in line with league regulations where the home team fielded a player who had received four yellow cards and not missed their next game. 
 
There were five close games in Division One South with leaders Exeter University the only team to win by more than an a goal, triumphing 4-2 at Canterbury. This gives them a six point lead at the top as second placed Guildford were held 3-3 by Teddington, needing a 69^th minute goal from William Tristem to get even the point. Old Loughtonians and Sevenoaks were unable to take advantage as they drew 2-2. Havant moved out of the bottom two thanks to a 2-1 win at Indian Gymkhana. Canterbury are now ninth. Surbiton 2s remain bottom but picked up their first win beating Richmond 3-2.   
 
Leeds’ lead at the top of Conference North was cut to four points. They were held to a 0-0 draw by third placed Lindum whilst second in the table Neston won 2-1 at Durham University 2s, James Gardiner netting both their goals. Newcastle University moved out of the bottom to thanks to a 3-2 win at Didsbury Northern. They are replaced by Ben Rhydding who went down 4-3 at Sheffield, Daniel O’Toole scored the winner in the last minute. Oxton stay bottom but picked up a point in a 1-1 draw with Doncaster.  
 
It was a good day for Clifton Robinsons in Conference West. They saw off local rivals Team Bath Buccaneers 3-2 to stay unbeaten and saw Chichester, second placed going into the weekend, lose for the first time. 4-1 at Marlow, Callum White and Tom McKinlay both scoring twice as the Buckinghamshire team take over in second, six points behind the leaders. At the other end of the table Sam Barnett scored four times in a 5-2 win for Exeter University 2s at Isca that sees them jump above their Devon rivals into ninth. They are now three points from safety, behind Fareham and Bristol University who both lost. Fareham 6-1 at Ashmoor, Bristol, 4-1 at home to Cardiff & Met 2s. 

There was no change in Conference East where the top three all won. Leaders Hampstead & Westminster 2s won 5-2 at Wimbledon 2s who stay ninth.  London Wayfarers remain second with a 4-3 win at fourth placed Old Cranleighan which dented the home team’s hopes of a title challenge. Holcombe 2s in third beat Southgate 2s 5-3.  Brighton & Hove are still bottom but did pick up a point in a 1-1 draw at Spencer that puts them six points off safety.  Bromley & Beckenham won 5-3 at Chelmsford.    
 
A second successive 2-2 draw for Conference Midlands leaders Leek means that their lead at the top has been halved to four points in the past two rounds of games. They needed a 69^th minute goal from Kieran Smith to keep up their unbeaten record at Norwich City. Oxford Hawks in second place won 3-1 at Birmingham University 2s. St Albans are in third after a 3-0 win against Stourport. Barford Tigers moved three points clear of Stourport, who are bottom, and above Birmingham thanks to a 6-5 win at Banbury, Santiago Binaghi scoring three for Tigers with Ben Mackey doing likewise for the home team. City of Peterborough beat Nottingham University 2s 3-1. 
 
Division One North Top Scorers  

Simon Claris (Repton) 19 

Simon Egerton (Bowdon) 11 

Richie Dawson-Smith (Bowdon) 10 

Harvey Edwards (University of Birmingham) 10 

Jake Litchfield (Harborne) 10 

Division One North Clean Sheets 

Joel Clayton (Bowdon) 6 

Yuvraj Singh Bhuhi (Loughborough Students) 3 

Ambrose Davis (Repton) 3 

Division One South Top Scorers  

Vlacheslav Paziuk (Havant) 17 

William Tristem (Guildford) 13 

Joe Naughalty (Sevenoaks) 11 

Cameron Baker (Guildford) 10 

Kyle White (Teddington) 10 

Division One South Clean Sheets 

Henry Saxby (Teddington) 3 

Conference East Top Scorers  

Matt Guise-Brown (Hampstead & Westminster 2) 22 

James Cutter (Old Cranleighan) 18 

David Agar (Chelmsford) 15 

Reuben Sendzul (Holcombe 2) 13 

Mubashar Ali (Holcombe 2) 9 

Conference East Clean Sheets 

James Stock (Chelmsford) 2 

Savaas Hadjigeorgiou (Southgate 2) 2 

Conference Midlands Top Scorers  

Ben White (Leek) 12 

Joe Finding (City of Peterborough) 11 

Spencer Hill (St. Albans) 8 

Jack Hobbs (Oxford Hawks) 8 

Lewis Ingram (University of Birmingham 2) 8 
 

Conference Midlands Clean Sheets 

Adam Knott (Leek) 5 

Alex Martin (St. Albans) 3 

Simon Dolan (Norwich City) 2 

Conference North Top Scorers  

Matt Gibson (Doncaster) 15 

George Godwin (Leeds) 13 

Will Musgrave (Ben Rhydding) 11 

Sam Dixon (Lindum) 10 

James Gardiner (Neston) 10 

Robert Goldthorp (Leeds) 10 

Conference North Clean Sheets 

Olly Trotter (Leeds) 4 

Maxwell Davidson (Doncaster) 2 

Dan Garlick (Lindum) 2 

Conference West Top Scorers  

Isaac Hocking (Clifton Robinsons) 12 

Sam Barnett (Exeter University 2) 11 

Jayden Zamler (Marlow) 11 

Willem Owens (Bristol University) 10 

Jadé Smith (Isca) 9 

Ben Stone (Clifton Robinsons) 7 

William Waltham (Exeter University 2) 7 

Callum White (Marlow) 7 

Conference West Clean Sheets 

Chris Bristow (Chichester) 3 

Rhys Payne (Cardiff & Met 2) 2 

Womens Division One North leaders Buckingham were held to a 3-3 draw at Leeds, their third successive game without a win. They led 3-0 with seven minutes left  thanks to goals from Sophia Crawshay, Rebecca van Arrowsmith and Tilly Roy but Leeds staged an amazing recovery. Anna Rutherford scored twice in two minutes before a last gasp penalty corner conversion by Hannah Smith completed a remarkable recovery for Leeds and a point in their battle to avoid the drop. Buckingham’s nearest rivals, Beeston and Gloucester City met and the latter ran out 2-0 winners to move within four points of the leaders, who they travel to this Saturday. The bottom two met at Repton where the home side were beaten 3-2 by Olton & West Warwicks to see Olton move four points clear in ninth but trailing Leeds and Ben Rhydding, who lost 1-0 at Loughborough Students 2, by a point. Pendle Forest beat Sutton Coldfield 3-1 to join them on 17 points, with only three points separating Sutton in fifth from Olton in ninth. 
 
It was a good weekend for Division One South leaders Teddington who extended their lead to six points. They won 4-0 at Guildford who stay ninth but saw closest rivals Exeter University lose twice. 1-0 at Bristol Firebrands on Saturday and 4-3 at home to Holcombe in Sunday’s game rearranged from 31 January. Holcombe also scored four on Saturday, wining 4-0 at home to Southgate. Bottom of the table Harleston Magpies were denied their first point by a solitary Kathryn Petch strike for Reading 2s in a 1-0 win. Sevenoaks won 1-0 at home to Surbiton 2s to extend the gap between themselves and Guildford to five points. 
 
Cardiff & Met, who have led Conference West since early October were displaced at the top by Team Bath Buccaneers. Cardiff went down 2-1 at home to Trojans who scored twice in the last ten minutes including Amy Sheehan’s 69^th minute winner. Bath go top on goal difference, helped by a 5-0 win at Clifton Robinsons 2 which included a hat-trick for Izzy Usher. Lansdown lost ground in fourth, held 0-0 in their derby with Cheltenham, they and Trojans trail the top two by four points. Despite the result Cheltenham slip to bottom, replacing Slough who moved up a place in beating Oxford University 3-1. Marlow won 2-0 at Exeter to move from eighth to sixth. 
 
The top two in Conference North were both involved in tight games on Saturday but it was Bowdon 2s who now lead by three points after they won and Alderley Edge lost. Bowdon beat Kirkby Stephen 4-3. The Cumbrians had come back from 3-1 down with ten minutes left to level things up thanks to two Martha Bainbridge goals that completed her hat-trick but Tilly Irvine grabbed a 70^th minute winner for Bowdon. Alderley Edge went down 2-1 at home to Durham University 2s. Newcastle University in third stay four points off the top after a 1-0 win at Didsbury Northern who remain eighth. They are four points clear of the bottom two – Wakefield who lost 2-0 at home to Whitley Bay & Tynemouth and Sheffield, who fell to a 2-1 defeat at Fylde. 
 
Leicester City stay top of Conference Midlands after their 3-2 win at Nottingham Trent University. Liz George scored twice in Leicester’s win, one of three by the same scoreline in the Division. Isabelle Smith also bagged a brace for Birmingham University 2s who beat Oxford Hawks 3-2 to stay a point off the top. Jodie Beddow was also on target twice in Cannock’s 3-2 win at home to Cambridge University that moved them out of the bottom two. They are replaced by Stourport, who earned a point in a 2-2 draw at St Albans, Bottom of the table Harleston Magpies 2s lost 16-0 to Cambridge City, a record EHL score with four goals apiece for Holly Dean and  Isobel Johnson and three for Emilia Noordhuis. 
 
Hampstead & Westminster 2s lead at the top of Conference East was cut to a point after they were beaten 3-2 at home by Wimbledon 2s. Phoebe Barnett hit a hat-trick for Wimbledon in a 20 minute spell mid game. Old Loughtonians in second took advantage beating Barnes 2s 2-0. Old Georgians moved up to third thanks to their 3-0 win at bottom of the table Wapping. Spencer lost ground in the title race going down 2-1 at Canterbury which puts the Kent side four points ahead of Barnes who are ninth. Guildford 2s stay eighth after a 2-0 home defeat at the hands of London Wayfarers.           
 
Division One North Top Scorers  

Sophia Crawshay (Buckingham) 15 

Emma McCabe (Sutton Coldfield) 10 

Jess Roe (Gloucester City) 9 

Sally Walton (Gloucester City) 9 

Kirby Harris (Loughborough Students 2) 6 

Beth Peers (Sutton Coldfield) 6 

Anna Rutherford (Leeds) 6 

Rebecca van Arrowsmith (Buckingham) 6 

Division One North Clean Sheets 

Amy Hughes (Loughborough Students 2) 4 

Amelia Jones (Buckingham) 4 

Izzy Evans (Beeston) 3 

Laura Kendall (Pendle Forest) 3 

Division One South Top Scorers 

Liselot Mander (Surbiton 2) 10 

Lizzie Cook (Bristol Firebrands) 9 

Lorna Willmott (Exeter University) 9 

Miri Maroney (Teddington) 8 

Madeleine Moore (Sevenoaks) 7 

Lily St. Clair (Exeter University) 6 

Division One South Clean Sheets 

Emily Overend (Teddington) 6 

Abigail Cox (Holcombe) 3 

Conference East Top Scorers  

Madeleine Newlyn (Old Loughtonians) 14 

Katie MacCallum (Old Loughtonians) 7 

Steph Elliott (Old Georgians) 7 

Jasmine Clark (Hampstead & Westminster 2) 6 

Hannah Griggs (Spencer) 6 

Olivia Lee-Smith (London Wayfarers) 6 

Conference East Clean Sheets: 

Rochelle Feather (Old Georgians) 5 

Jenny Lee (Spencer) 4 

Victoria Drews (Hampstead & Westminster 2) 3 

Phoebe Menear (Old Loughtonians) 3 

Conference Midlands Top Scorers  

Eloise Ward (Oxford Hawks) 14 

Holly Dean (Cambridge City) 11 

Jodie Beddow (Cannock) 11 

Isobel Johnson (Cambridge City) 10 

Sophie Thompson (Stourport) 10 

Rhianne Noor (Cambridge City) 8 

Isla Fennell (Leicester City) 7 

Lottie Gill (Cambridge University) 7 

Conference Midlands Clean Sheets: 

Emily Gerke (St. Albans) 4 

Ruby Jamieson (Oxford Hawks) 4 

Georgie Marsden (Cambridge City) 3 

Charlotte Salmon (Nottingham Trent University) 3 

Conference North Top Scorers  

Amelie Long (Alderley Edge) 17 

Martha Bainbridge (Kirkby Stephen) 14 

Jessica Wharton (Fylde) 9 

Nicola Kellett (Fylde) 8 

Naomi Harkness (Whitley Bay & Tynemouth) 7 

Frankie Sinclair-Bruce (Durham University 2) 7 

Conference North Clean Sheets 

Ella Buddle (Alderley Edge) 6 

Katherine Somerville (Bowdon 2) 6 

Katherine Fricke (Durham University 2) 5 

Amy Keirl (Whitley Bay & Tynemouth) 4 

Conference West Top Scorers  

Jamie Bulbring (Cardiff & Met) 12 

Amy Sheehan (Trojans) 10 

Izzy Usher (Team Bath Buccaneers) 9 

Milly Chatterley (Trojans) 7 

Emily Hersch (Oxford University) 7 

Lorel Wallis (Exeter) 7 

Tabitha Tinniswood (Team Bath Buccaneers) 7 

Conference West Clean Sheets 

Amy Partridge (Cardiff & Met) 5 

Victoria Waring (Lansdown) 5 

Peggy Marshall (Team Bath Buccaneers) 3