Another excellent hockey meeting on the Tanbridge astroturf as the Horsham Primary Schools League came to its conclusion tonight. North Heath A started as leaders and after three more wins and a draw nobody came close to overhauling them, so North Heath A became worthy champions.
In their first match of the night North Heath A were pushed hard by Kingslea B and indeed it took a late strike to force a draw with their closest challengers at the end of the previous meeting. No such doubts in North Heath A’s remaining matches though as Leechpool B, Heron Way and Castlewood all suffered defeats at their hands.
Second place was a closer affair with Kingslea B and St Robert Southwell both pushing hard. Kingslea B went unbeaten but mainly dealt in draws until they smashed their own A team 4-1 last up. St Roberts started two points behind but after an initial scoreless draw with Kingslea A they stepped up with three wins to see them into the runners-up berth.
Three teams in mid-table – Heron Way, Leechpool A and Castlewood – all started on 12 points for the second meeting and all finished on 24 by the end of it so goal difference came into play. Even this required marginal analysis with Heron Way finishing with just one goal more than each of the other two and Leechpool A prevailing in fifth place over Castlewood with similar ground-zero goal difference but scoring more.
Kingslea A with 20 points will rightly claim that their competitive interest was more mid-table than lower reaches. Leechpool B failed to add to their win column but will be pleased to have secured a draw via their A team colleagues. North Heath B remained pegged to the bottom suffering three more defeats but came close to defying the form book in the last of them, going down 3-2 to Leechpool A.
Well done to all teams and players involved for contributing to an excellent and exciting competition.
MEETING 2 | PITCH 1 | PITCH 2 | PITCH 3 |
4.08-4.23 | Kingslea A 0 v 0 Rob South | Kingslea B 1 v 1 North Heath A | Heron Way 0 v 0 Castlewood |
4.26-4.41 | Leechpool A 0 v 0 Heron Way | North Heath B 0 v 3 Castlewood | Leechpool B 0 v 4 North Heath A |
4.44-4.59 | Rob South 3 v 0 Leechpool B | North Heath B 0 v 1 Kingslea A | Kingslea B 1 v 1 Castlewood |
5.02-5.17 | Leechpool A 1 v 1 Leechpool B | Heron Way 0 v 2 North Heath A | Rob South 3 v 0 North Heath B |
5.20-5.35 | Kingslea B 0 v 0 Leechpool B | Leechpool A 3 v 2 North Heath B | Heron Way 1 v 0 Kingslea A |
5.38-5.53 | Castlewood 0 v 2 North Heath A | Kingslea B 4 v 1 Kingslea A | Rob South 3 v 1 Leechpool A |
FINAL TABLE
TEAM | PLAYED | WON | LOST | DRAWN | GOALS FOR | GOALS AGAINST | POINTS |
North Heath A | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 38 |
Robert Southwell | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 30 |
Kingslea B | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 28 |
Heron Way | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 24 (GD+1) |
Leechpool A | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 24 (GD=0)* |
Castlewood | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 24 (GD=0)* |
Kingslea A | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 20 |
Leechpool B | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 18 |
North Heath B | 8 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 11 |
*Leechpool A take 5th place because scored more goals than Castlewood