UMPIRES

Here is this weeks roll of honour:
Mike Snell (L2), Peter Colwill (MV, L4), Chris Paine (L5, BU16), Mark Yeomans (M5), Ian Ringham (M4, GU14, BU14), Guy Ross (M2), Sarah Watts (GU14), Simon Seabrook (M1, M1CUP), Paul Haythornthwaite (M3), Alastair Wertheim (L3)

SOFTBALL

DATE FOR DIARIES

The Club Supper and Hockey Awards Night, the marquee event of the year, will be taking place on Saturday April 17th.

Please put the date in your diary now.

Tickets will be going on sale soon. Watch the newsletter soon for more news about the night and where to get your tickets.

If your name is on the following list please could you forward to me payment by cheque made payable to "TPS Merchandising" My address is
52 Glebe Road
Chalfont St Peter
Bucks
SL9 9NJ

Fleece Tops £45

Mark Van Duyvenbode
Oscar Postma
Paul Adams
Will Garrett
Chris Paine
Andrew Watts
Darryl Chiles
Warren Scott
David Dunford
Vicki Williams
Dan Lovelace
Mark McCree
Bethany Taylor
Sarah Watts
Zoë Scott
Sara Daughtrey
Steph Russell
Stella Sanders

Playing Shirts £20

Vicki Williams
Heidi Frick
Jo Peters
Jan Croft
Caroline Chipperfield
Sara Daughtrey
Erin Ruxton
Sam Sweetman
Bethany Taylor
Saquib Ahmed
Sarah Wood
Chris Holmes
Geoff Brown

If cheques have arrived in the post this week, my apologies for putting your name on this list.

In the 4th round of the Vase on Sunday the Mens first XI met Ely City hoping to progress to the Quarter Final stage. Early surges showed A&C to be on top of the match, and it wasn't long before a rebound from a low shot was collected by Richard Martin and lobbed over the keeper. This should have opened the door for A&C, but some determined keeping and resilient defence held the team to a single goal, before a quick break against the run of play found Ely equalising from an open short-corner. It had been a controlled first half, with the defence holding the Ely attack mainly to their own half, but the attack failing to capitalise on many chances.

The second period changed this, as the A&C forwards began to exploit games in the pressured defence. With Watts running the right touch, supported by van Duyvenbode pushing high, the openings began to tell, and without some excellent keeping from the Ely 'keeper the game could have quickly been closed off.

The second goal was again came from a Cartledge shot, slipped past the Ely 'keeper, Martin dived to divert the ball past the last defender. This gave the confidence to the A&C team and with Scott stepping higher a third soon appeared as a short corner saved on the line was bundled over. The close to the match came as Scott latched onto a weak clearance and watched his reverse sweep clear the diving keeper.

Ely put up a good resistance, but with the tireless running of Watts and the marauding of Richard Martin they were always under pressure. Yet again the A&C defence showed poise and control to keep the Ely attacks to a minimum, and were well supported by the midfield who really controlled the pace of the match. With many A&C fans on the sideline this was a good win to put the team through to the next round at home on 21st March.

Team: Payne, Chiles, Rutherford, van Duyvenbode, Turner, Crossman, Wolfenden, Martin, Watts, Scott, Cartledge (c), Paterson, Laubser, Ringham

A&C's fight against relegation took a dent as they lost out in a high-scoring game against Oxford University first team on Saturday. In an amazing opening 11 minutes of play which saw 5 goals scored, the game was played at a great tempo.

A&C took the lead after just 55 seconds when Caroline Coates's neat turn and shot was saved but Laura Patterson scored from the follow-up. The Uni equalised within 40 seconds and then took the lead from their first penalty corner after 6 minutes. A&C responded immediately when Annie Brothwell's goalbound sweep from a penalty corner was saved by the 'keeper but Patterson was there again to score.

The remarkable opening sequence of goals then saw A&C regain the lead as Katy Shaw converted Katie Boughen's cross. Heidi Frick then nearly made it four as her shot whistled across the face of the goal.

Undeterred by all of this, the students played some fast flowing hockey with quick movement off the ball by their players which caused constant problems for A&C and they equalised again after 22 minutes. After this, a further three goals in the next ten minutes put Oxford firmly in control.

Quite remarkably, a game which had nine goals in the first-half only had one in the second-half which came just 2 minutes after the break and was scored by the students.
Despite no further goals there was always the threat, particularly from Oxford, but strong performances in the middle of the pitch by Shaw and Erin Ruxton helped A&C still maintain some forward momentum.

Team: Fyffe; James; Campbell, Parker, Brothwell; Coates, Shaw, Boughen, Ruxton; Frick, Patterson; Subs: Durkin, Bullock.

FOLKESTONE 2004

OK people - Quick reminder for all coming on tour, last of the monies is now due. By Sat 6th March I need everyone to have:

(a) paid me the rest of the monies owed. It's £70 in total if you are coming for the whole thing (Thurs - Mon nights inclusive). So just deduct what you have already paid me from £70 and that's what I need. Anyone coming for just one or two nights, it's £20/night and £10 tournament entry.
(b) paid Fay Rider (Fayrider@hotmail.com) £15 for your fantastic personalised hockey tour 2004 t-shirt.

Anyone that still wants to come still can - I have a few beds left - but will need monies by Saturday please. It's going to be a fab few days away, involving lots of drinking and partying and maybe some hockey!
Any questions, give me a call 07989 303506 or e-mail on Sara.daughtrey@sharprecruitment.co.uk.