HOCKEY PICTURES: Rugby's Ladies 3rds XI v Warwick 3rds

PICTURES BY MIKE BAKER: Rugby & East Warwickshire Ladies 3rd XI beat league leaders Warwick 3rd XI 4-3 at Technology Drive on Saturday.

Goals to Evie Headland, Evie Scutt and two to Nadine Bell saw Rugby go ahead and stay ahead after each push back from Warwick. Player of the match went to Chrissie Chater in goal. This weekend the 3rds - who are third in Warwickshire Division 3, are away to Atherstone 2nds.

Rugby & East Warwickshire Hockey Club’s Under 12 girls and boys teams are both joint county champions and will represent Warwickshire in the regional finals.

REWHC Girls U12s

After scoring 16 goals and conceding once in the round robin stage, Rugby moved on to face Leamington in the semi-final, winning 1-0 before drawing 0-0 against Sutton in the final. Both teams will move on to the regional finals.

REWHC Boys U12s

After scoring 19 goals and conceding three in the round robin Rugby faced Sutton in the final with a final score of 1-1. Both teams will move on to the regional finals.

REWHC Men’s 1st 2 (12)

Banbury 1st 2 (11)

A great performance from Rugby in the men’s cup saw two penalty corner goals for Chris Harding in the first half before Banbury levelled in the second.

With the game tied at the end of play it required penalty flicks to determine who would progress to the next round of the competition.

After 13 flicks taken by Adam Hewitt, Rich Major, Ollie Dear, Luke Armstrong and Tom Robson, a second flick saved by Man of the Match Connor Robson sealed the win for Rugby.

REWHC Men’s 2nd 2 Stone 1st 3

Goals to Alex Hammant and a great deflection to Jan de Klerk saw Rugby go ahead of Stone early on but were not able to hold on to the lead late into the game as Man of the Match Connor made some great saves.

REWHC Men’s 3rd 2 North Notts 1st 6

Two excellent goals to Thomas Palmer saw Rugby well in the game going into the second half, but a couple of unfortunate injuries saw Rugby slow down and let North Notts through towards the end.

Man of the Match went to Paul Nicholson for a great midfield performance.

REWHC Men’s 5th 3 Warwick University 4th 0

Two goals to Tom Watkins as well as a Giles Morrison penalty corner strike saw Rugby stay ahead of the students thanks to Man of the Match Chris Dickinson’s save off the goal line.

REWHC Men’s 6th 6 Northampton Saints 4th 1

Goals to Man of the Match Jared Fox, Richard Hardy, Ed Thomas, Charlie Darbyshire, Will Antrobus and Nick Dowling saw Rugby put in a dominant four- goal second half for a convincing win.

REHWC Ladies 1st 1 Loughborough Uni 2nd 1

An early goal from Kirby Harris saw Rugby go ahead against a strong student side, who managed to score their equaliser just before the half time whistle.

A great defensive performance saw Rugby absorb the pressure from the students with some key saves from Player of the Match Emma Olifent to keep the match scores level.

REWHC Ladies 2nd 1 Warwick University 1st 4

Despite a goal to Grace Calder and a strong battle from the first minute to the last, Rugby fell to a strong student side.

Player of the match went to Sophia Greaves for a great goalkeeping debut.

REWHC Ladies 3rd 4 Warwick 3rd 3

Goals to Evie Headland, Evie Scutt and two to Nadine Bell saw Rugby go ahead and stay ahead after each push back from Warwick.

Player of the match went to Chrissie Chater in goal. (See picture page 38).

REWHC Ladies 4th 5 Nuneaton 3rd 2

Two goals to Annie and one each to Ruth Gibson, Rachel Goudie and Jacki Adlum saw a great effort from Rugby as a full team effort beat Nuneaton.

REWHC Boys U18s 3 Old Silhillians 1

Two goals to Beno Wiltshire and another to Archie Houghton propelled Rugby over Old Sills with a great overall performance.

REWHC Girls U14s 1 Sutton 3

A goal from Jess E was not enough to see Rugby ahead of Sutton in a tight fixture against a strong Sutton side.