East Grinstead took the indoor title for the second year running when they played Surbiton in the final here in Nottingham this afternoon.
'Grinstead started the ball rolling with a penalty corner conversion by Ashley Jackon (Jackson is in the UK playing indoors for his old club) and within the space of five minutes Mark Pearn and Dave De Prez had added to the tally with no reply, Tim Pinnock pulled one back for Surbiton but on the stroke of half time Jackson scored his second.
Towards the end of the second half Surbiton staged a bit of a rally but two more goals from Jackson, a brace from skipper Scott Ashdown and a goal from Mike Holland made the margin too big to close within the remaining time and matched ended 9-5 in East Grinstead's favour.
Earlier in the day East Grinstead had found themselves 2-0 behind against Reading in the semi-final, courtesy of two super goals from Simon Mantell. However, EG gradually piled on the pressure and the match ended 7-5 to them.,
The other semi final, between Loughborough Students and Surbiton,ended 7-5 to Surbiton, with the students scoring four of their goals in the last ten minutes.
There was a touch of déjà vu in the women's final, when twenty minutes of play between Slough and Leicester ended at 2-2, with Becky Herbert scoring twice for Leicester. Slough's goals came from Jane Smith and Alex Scott. Fortunately there was not a repeat of yesterday's semi-final between Slough and Bowdon Hightown, and the penalty barrage was relatively short, ending 2-1 in Leicester's favour.
