LADIES 3RD XI PROMOTED
Amersham and Chalfont's second promotion of the season was sealed on Saturday as the Ladies 3rd XI beat Wokingham 5-0 and nearest rivals Wallingford lost 1-0 to Bicester. This meant that A&C were promoted as champions.

EHA VASE - QUARTER FINAL
The Mens 1st XI are playing Zak Hond in the quarter finals of the EHA Vase this Sunday at Newlands at 2pm. Zak Hond used to be a touring team but are now attached to National League club Hampstead and Westminster. This is going to be the hardest game so far in the competition with Zak Hond winning all but one of their games so far this season. The Mens 1sts would like to see a huge crowd to cheer them on towards the semis. Game starts at 2pm.

SOFTBALL PRACTICE
Softball this week returns to its usual 11am slot on Sunday morning at the club. Everyone is invited, so please come down and give it a go.

EASTER TOUR SHIRTS
The final deadline for tour shirt money (£15) is this Sunday 21st March. (Post dated cheques are acceptable) I also need a shirt size from everyone (S,M,L) and name suggestions. If I don't receive the money from you this weekend then you will not have a shirt ordered for you! Cheers, Fay. If you need to contact me then you can email/text/phone: fayrider@hotmail.com 07763 646287.

SATURDAY APRIL 17TH 2004 - CLUB SUPPER & HOCKEY AWARDS

Tickets are now available to buy from team reps who are:

Warren Scott, Adam Laubser, Tony Hewston, Jon Finch, Sean Cremin, Mike Burge, Annie Brothwell, Catherine Watson, Fay Rider, Sarah Wood and Zoë Scott.

A ticket to this marquee event costs £30 if bought on or before 1st April 2004 and includes 3-Course Dinner, Disco and Bouncy Castle. Don't be a fool and buy after that date as tickets cost £40 from April 2nd onwards.

Here is this weeks roll of honour:

Mike Snell (L1, L2), Steve Coleman (M2), Sam Machin (M3), Dave Emery (M4, MV), Tim Brooker (MV), Justin Bootland (M5), Paul Adams (BU14), Ian Ringham (BU16), Heidi James (L3), Alastair Wertheim (L3), Paul Haythornthwaite (L4).

Please find below the monies I am still outstanding for kit. Please send cheques to me ASAP, made payable to "TPS Merchandising" to

Martin Cartledge
52 Glebe Road
Chalfont St Peter
Bucks
SL9 9NJ

FLEECES £45
Mark Van Duyvenbode, Chris Paine, Mark McCree, Stella Sanders

PLAYING SHIRTS £20
Caroline Chipperfield, Erin Ruxton, Saqib Ahmed, Chris Holmes, Azee Swalaheen, John Dawson, Kevin Kiel

Please send me cheques ASAP!

Amersham & Chalfont knew that this game was crucial in determining the outcome of their season. Needing a win or a draw to remain in the top half of the table they knew how important this game was.

The guys were fired up and knew that a good start was needed, unfortunately found themselves 2-0 down within the first 15 minutes. However, in what has become a trademark of this side the heads were held high and after a fired up team talk at half time came back firing on all cylinders. An inspirational 20 minutes of good, strong hockey saw A&C all over Wokingham with fine breaks from Huw Rhys Davies, James Lander and Pete Westaway to put Mark Worrell in for the first. After some strong defending by Craig Ottaway and Colin Byrne who kept A&C in the game, and some strong running from Watsy making a guest appearance, Oscar Postma watched the Wokingham keeper go to ground and calmly flicked it up and over into the top left corner and A&C were back in the game. The third came from a variation short corner which was eventually buried by Russell Rhys Davies to see A&C take the lead 3-2. Unfortunately, due to some hurried play by A&C central defence and some strong running by Wokingham they equalised 10 minutes from the end to finish a 3-3 draw. A good game and good result.

Team: Litchfield, Byrne, Ottaway, H. Rhys Davies, Laubser, J. Lander, Westaway, Watts, Emery, Worrell, Postma, R. Rhys Davies.

A&C 4's edged closer to MBBO Division 4 title with deserved victory against 4th placed Bicester. The opponents were very much up for this game but thankfully A&C quickly fell into their stride by supporting each player on the ball and working really hard at breaking up the opposition play. Up front Stephenson seems to be getting quicker every week and Stewart is...positionally smart. After 15 minutes point blank chances at either end were kept out by some excellent keeping. Haythornthwaite managed to get to the bye line and pull the ball back for Stewart to smash the ball against the back board. Blamey showed some nifty stickwork and worked tirelessly in midfield with Whayman who continued to intercept, receive and distribute with great effect. It was great to see the youngster Brand play with such confidence flicking the ball over and around one or two defenders at a time. The defence communicated well through Eaude and, apart from the first quarter of game, were rarely troubled. The short corner count was 10-1.

Team: Litchfield, Bootland, Kong, Eaude, Peters, Reape, Haythornthwaite, Blamey, Whayman, Brand, Richardson, Stewart, Stephenson