The new season’s primary schools hockey league got underway tonight on the Tanbridge astroturf with nine teams from six local schools taking part. The teams are playing a 36-match round-robin across the two meetings, 18 fixtures per meeting.
All teams played four matches on their first outing and it was North Heath A who made them all count with victories. They started with a 1-0 win over Leechpool A and subsequently they went on a goalscoring escalator, beating Kingslea A 2-0, St Robert Southwell 3-0 and stablemates North Heath B 4-0.
A great night for North Heath A was compounded even further by the fact that most of the teams below them took points off each other with some topsy-turvy results. Kingslea B ended as their nearest chaser with 14 points but still a big six points behind at the halfway point.
Below that four teams – Heron Way, Leechpool A, Castlewood, St Robert Southwell – all sit on 12 points, only split by the hairs of goal difference. Kingslea A and Leechpool B are a further two points behind and although North Heath B look somewhat marooned on the bottom their performance on the turf was much better than their stats on paper suggested.
Second and final meeting to run on Friday 29th November, 4-6pm at Tanbridge.
HOCKEY LEAGUE – MEETING 1 RESULTS
| PITCH 1 | PITCH 2 | PITCH 3 |
4.08-4.23 | Kingslea A 3 v 1 Leechpool B | Leechpool A 0 v 1 North Heath A | North Heath B 0 v 4 Kingslea B |
4.26-4.41 | St Robert Southwell 1 v 0 Heron Way | Leechpool B 2 v 0 Castlewood | North Heath A 2 v 0 Kingslea A |
4.44-4.59 | Heron Way 5 v 2 North Heath B | Kingslea B 0 v 2 Leechpool A | Rob Southwell 0 v 3 North Heath A |
5.02-5.17 | Leechpool A 1 v 1 Castlewood | North Heath B 0 v 0 Leechpool B | Heron Way 0 v 1 Kingslea B |
5.20-5.35 | Rob Southwell 1 v 1 Castlewood | North Heath A 4 v 0 North Heath B | Kingslea A 0 v 0 Leechpool A |
5.38-5.53 | Castlewood 1 v 0 Kingslea A | Kingslea B 1 v 1 St Robert Southwell | Heron Way 1 v 0 Leechpool B |
TABLE AFTER MEETING 1
TEAM | PLAYED | WON | LOST | DRAWN | GOALS FOR | GOALS AGAINST | POINTS |
North Heath A | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Kingslea B | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
Heron Way | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 12 |
Leechpool A | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
Castlewood | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
Robert Southwell | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
Kingslea A | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
Leechpool B | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
North Heath B | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 6 |