Cheshire have retained the
County Championship in a closely fought match here at the Old Loughtonians’ ground this afternoon.
Playing Yorkshire, the match was well into the second half before the scoring was opened with a penalty corner conversion by
Cheshire’s Ali Ghazanfar.
The match remained in the balance but the match could have swung decisively
Cheshire’s way when
Yorkshire’s Stephen Harvey took an early shower for a second yellow card offence.
Surprisingly, the loss of
Harvey seemed to spur Yorkshire into action and, nine minutes after
Harvey’s dismissal, David Smith found the net to put the score on 1-1.
Just as it looked as if the match was going to strokes, Alex Edmondstone scored
Cheshire’s second.
In three minutes of madness
Cheshire saw two of their players, Tom Ainsworth and Russell Anderson, sin binned. But time had run out for
Yorkshire and the final whilst blew at 2-1.
Our photograph shows Cheshire captain, Stephen Smith, receiving the cup from England Hockey President, Martin Gotheridge.
