Hockey

Ace goal-getter Stuart Cunnington smashed a terrific treble as Spalding 1st continued their promotion push in East Men’s Hockey League Premier B with a 4-3 derby win at Wisbech 1st. In what was a very physical game, Spalding went 1-0 down after ten minutes as Wisbech attacked with pace and venom straight out of the blocks. But Cunnington soon turned ...

In-form Long Sutton 2nd put in another fine performance on Saturday as they hit St Ives 2nd for six in Division 3NW of East Men’s Hockey League. On a day that saw the fixture list ravaged by bad weather, Sutton’s second string were the star South Holland performers with a 6-1 triumph at the Peele Leisure Centre. It’s the second ...

Former England hockey international Crista Cullen put Long Sutton Hockey Club’s young guns through their paces on Saturday. Cullen, who was also part of the Great Britain team which won bronze at the London 2012 Olympics, junior masterclass session at the Peele Leisure Centre. Some 41 youngsters attended the session, which was followed by a question and answer period in ...

An impressive first-half showing saw Spalding 1st begin the second half of their East Men’s Hockey League Premier B campaign with a 2-1 win at Felixstowe on Saturday. High-flying Spalding fell behind early on against their mid-table hosts, but hit back before half-time thanks to strikes from Joe Higgins and Dan Needham. Higgins bundled the ball home after a Josh ...

Close to 160 primary school children from 12 local schools took part in Spalding Hockey Club’s second tournament of the season at Glen Park in Surfleet. The 18 participating teams were split into four leagues – advanced, intermediate and two beginner leagues. In the advanced league, St John’s came out as the new front runners with a shock 5-3 win ...

Spalding Hockey Club men’s 1st suffered their first home league loss in recent memory as they were outgunned by Cambridge Uni 2nd 7-5 on Saturday. The Glen Park clash was Spalding’s final game of 2015 before the East Men’s Hockey League’s annual festive break – and they were also bidding to make up ground on Premier B’s top three sides. ...

Alan Charevicius scored his maiden hat-trick to help rapidly-improving Spalding 4th climb away from the bottom of East Men’s Hockey League Division 5NW on Saturday. The youthful Spalding side saw off Bourne/Deeping 5th 3-1 at Glen Park to register a fourth league success of the campaign and move into mid-table. Spalding dominated much of the opening period with some slick ...

Lyn Tancred enjoyed a winning return to Bretton Gate with Long Sutton Ladies 1st in Division 2NW. But it was not a great start for her against City of Peterborough 2nd, seeing her penalty flick saved. However, she drove to the byline in the second half and set up strike partner Leanne Woodhead to make it 1-0. And from Sutton’s ...

Two Dan Needham penalties helped keep Spalding 1st flying high in East League Premier B. He slotted home his first flick against Ipswich and East Suffolk after just five minutes, soon followed by a thunderous Rob Dalton drive for 2-0. Spalding played the ball about with confidence and with Brendan Morris, Ashley Barker and Sam Howitt commanding in defence, another ...

Long Sutton Ladies’ 1st goalkeeper Lorraine Wallis is heading to next year’s Masters World Cup in Australia. The 45-year-old has received a call-up to the England Over-40s side for the tournament in April. Wallis says the notification was a surprise but she’s thrilled at the prospect. “It did come out of the blue,” she said. “My age bracket is Over-45s ...

Spalding Poachers 1st finally secured their first win of the East Women’s League Division 1N season on Saturday with a 3-2 win over Bedford ladies’ 2nd. Having gone nine league matches without a win, Spalding started with intent and went ahead when Karen Timby smashed home a short corner after just three minutes. Jacqui Hunter then found the net after ...

Spalding Hockey Club’s leading side cruised into the last 16 of the England Hockey Men’s Trophy with a dominant 12-2 win at March Town on Sunday. They started superbly, as teenagers Joe Higgins and Joe Rogers scored early – but the home side pulled one back with a well-struck short corner to keep the tie alive. A period of March ...

Long Sutton 1st finally got their first win of the East Men’s Hockey League Premier B season on Saturday as they edged a nine-goal thriller with Felixstowe 1st 5-4. Hosts Sutton started superbly at the Peele Leisure Centre and went ahead when Ben Shore fed Danny Sisson to fire home, but the away team enjoyed a large amount of possession ...

The first East Men’s Hockey League derby between Long Sutton and Spalding’s top teams went the way of the latter on Saturday after an entertaining Premier B battle. In-form Spalding emerged as 4-2 winners against their struggling hosts at The Peele Leisure Centre, as they made it six wins from seven matches to stay second in the standings. Having already ...

Spalding 1st bounced back from their first loss of the East Men’s Hockey League Premier B season to hammer high-flying Saffron Walden 1st 6-2 at Glen Park on Saturday. The hosts started well and took the lead after ten minutes through Stuart Cunnington from a short corner, before Rob Dalton doubled the advantage a few minutes later. Then the floodgates ...

Spalding 1st breezed into the second round of the England Hockey Men’s Trophy with a crushing 5-0 win over rivals Long Sutton 1st on Sunday. Master marksman Stuart Cunnington dispatched two short corners to put visitors Spalding 2-0 up at half time, before Dan Needham punished a Sutton error to make it three after the break. Cunnington finished another short ...

Defending champions St Norbert’s Catholic Primary School picked up where they left off at the first Primary Schools Hockey Tournament of the season last Friday. The team extended their unbeaten run to 29 games in this competition, winning all five games – scoring 22 goals and conceding just one. Game one saw them record an emphatic 8-0 win over Boston ...

Two Stuart Cunnington goals helped Spalding 1st make it an impressive four wins from as many games in East Men’s Hockey League Premier B on Saturday. Spalding are one of three teams with a perfect 12 points after four games following their 2-1 win over Wisbech Town 1st at Glen Park. Also in Premier B, Long Sutton 1st are still ...

Long Sutton 3rd took the bragging rights in the first East Men’s Hockey League South Holland derby of the season as they saw off hosts Spalding 4th 3-0 at Glen Park on Saturday. The Division 5NW clash was a pretty one-sided affair, with Sutton finally claiming their first victory of the campaign. Two Gary Hales goals put the visitors in ...

Four goals from the returning Stuart Cunnington fired Spalding 1st to another impressive East Men’s League Premier B victory on Saturday. In what was their first home game of the new season, Joe Higgins (2), Josh Rowbottom and Dan Needham also notched in a thumping 8-1 triumph. The visitors actually took an early lead at Glen Park following a breakaway, ...