Canterbury maintain their lead and their 100% record at the
top of the Investec Women’s Premiership this afternoon.
Playing struggling Sutton Coldfield, it took them all of 42
minutes to find the net, but when Scot’s international Nikki Kidd fired a shot
home from the edge of the ‘D’, Canterbury started to look more like a side that
was heading the table. Sutton Coldfield
made a fight of it, with the evergreen Jane Sixsmith to the fore, but they
never seriously threatened the Canterbury goal.
Canterbury eventually finished the match 4-0, after further goals from
Nicola Lloyd, Kim Young and Anna Baker. Pictures from this match are now on our
site at www.HockeyImages.co.uk.
This season’s fall girls, Olton & West Warwicks, found
themselves under the cosh again, this time at home to Clifton. They were 0-5 behind at half time, and their visitors
saved them further humiliation by keeping the final score down to 0-6. Olton are rooted at the bottom of the table
on zero points and a minus goal difference of 32. That averages out at eight per match if your
maths is not good.
Clifton are in second place by virtue of that win, a rise of
one place. They displace Surbiton who
drop to fifth after they drew 1-1 away at Leicester. Surbiton had trailed for
59 minutes after Katie Long scored for Leicester in the third minute. Emily
Atkinson rescued a point for the visitor with eight minutes remaining on the
clock.
Reading move up one place to third after recording a 1-0 win
against Birmingham University. The University is one of three sides on zero
points (the others being Sutton Coldfield and Olton), but a much superior goal
difference keeps them just outside of the danger zone.
Another side moving up one place is Bowdon Hightown, who had
slipped to fifth after a promising start to the season. They are now in fourth
place, behind Reading on goal difference, after beating Beeston 2-1. It’s not news, but we’ll mention it anyway,
that Tina Cullen was one of Bowdon’s scorers. Beeston, who themselves had a promising start,
stay in seventh place.
In the Investec Women’s
Conference East, Holcombe have started to put clear water between
themselves and the pack after a 0-3 win at bottom placed Chelmsford. Buckingham in the Conference West, visited Oxford Hawks and recorded a 1-4 win. Slough, who had been on equal points this
morning, dropped their first points with a 4-0 defeat at Isca. In the North only one point separates
University of Durham from Whitley Bay & Tynemouth. The students remain on top after a 0-3 win
away at Doncaster, with the Tynesiders winning 1-0 at home to Ben Rhydding.
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