Westbury & United Banks (Bristol) Hockey Club results page

18/4/09
Pool 1	Westbury 1		Westbury 2		Westbury 3		Westbury 4
	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers
Westbury 1			0-1	Webster	1-0	Poulsom	1-2	Ward
Westbury 2	1-0				0-5		0-0
Westbury 3	0-1		5-0	Blake Openshaw Abbi ? ?			0-0
Westbury 4	2-1	Maydew Scott	0-0		0-0
Can some one let me know the scores and scorers? Post it on the forum.
Pool 2	Westbury 5		Westbury 6		Westbury 7		Westbury 8
	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers	Score	Scorers
Westbury 5			0-1		2-1	Longden M Jo	4-1	Palmer M 2 Longden M Cutts
Westbury 6	1-0	Millman S			1-0	Coates	4-1
Westbury 7	1-2	Moon	0-1				2-3	Holmes N ?
Westbury 8	1-4	Nichols G	1-4	Glynn	3-2	Glynn 3


7th & 8th	Team 7 v Team 1	Moon	1-1	?
5th & 6th	Team 8 v Team 2		0-0
3rd & 4th	Team 5 v Team 3		0-0
Final	Team 6 v Team 4	Farrell	1-0

The 9th club day started on a high when Terry Watts got down on one knee and proposed to Sarah Griffiths in front of 100 of their teams mates. There was thunderous applause from everyone. Having started on such a romantic note, club day continued with a lot of high quality play.

In pool 1 goals were scarce. The Captains' Team (Team 1) came last in the pool with 3 points. They started with a 1-0 defeat against Team 2, but then followed up by winning against Team 3 by a single goal scored by Chris Poulsom. Their final game was a close encounter with Team 4 losing by the odd goal in three with a Westberries lady getting the goal. Team 2 fared a little better with their 4 points coming in a mixed fashion! They opened with a 1-0 win against the Captains courtesy of a Tony Webster goal, before drawing 0-0 with Team 4 and then losing by a solitary goal to Team 1. Team 3 reached the runners-up spot with 4 points and a better goal difference than Team 2. They ground out a 0-0 draw with Team 4, then fell to a 1-0 defeat. They rounded off the pool games in style with a 5-0 trouncing of Team 2. Ger Openshaw had a mazy run and a thumping finish, two goals were scored by Westberries, Stuart Blake added another and the 5th goal remains anonymous. Top of the pile was Team 4 who made it to the final with 5 points. They battled their way to two 0-0 draws against Teams 3 and 2. They topped the group by winning 2-1 against The Captains. Young Alex Maydew, who looked composed on the ball during the afternoon, scored himself and Doug Scott added the second.

Pool 2 was full of goals, 14 in total and some good ones amongst them. Teams 5 and 6 scrapped out the first game with Steve Millman notching the only goal of the game. Team 5 had all the opening play but Team 5 finished strongly. Kirsty Andrews in goal was in great form all day and pulled off several match winning saves. Next game was an end to end match between Teams 7 and 8. Will Glynn popped in the first goal early in the game. Nathan Walkey was playing well on the pitch, but his rich vein of winter goals dried up on him, and he drew a blank on the day. However, scorer became provider, as he topped his shot, saw it bouncing past the far post, where Will Glynn was on hand to cut the ball at waist height into the goal. Team 7 were playing well themselves and had an equal amount of the game. They pulled a goal back only to see Will Glynn work his way around the D, turn and shoot for a well deserved hat-trick. That wasn't the end as Team 7 pressed again and an attack down the left wing left Ned Holmes clear at the far post to prod the ball home. Ned played well all day and looks to have skill and strength that will be fully employed this summer with the Devils. The final result was a close 3-2 win for Team 8. The third sand game was another close contest between Team 5 and Team 7. Max Longden opened the scoring. Max had a good day, showing skill, strength and stamina (playing 5 games in total). Then came (in my view) the goal of the day. Jo Riley picked the ball up on the right and unleashed a powerful rising drive. Clint Bryer hardly had time to blink as it soared past his head for a cracking goal. Team 7 were by no means beaten and Neil Moon was a threat around the D throughout the game. In fact it was Neil, with a deflected shot, that made for a 'grandstand finish'. Tom Taylor was like a magnet to everything that came near him, cutting out a high percentage of the Team 5 attacks. Phil Simon found his old touch several times in the heart of the defence. Team 5 held out to win 2-1. Team 6 showed that they were the best team in the sand pool with a 4-1 win against Team 8. Will Glynn rounded off a good scoring day for himself with his 4th goal, but Team 6 had Jack Chalk on target, sweeping in a fast raid down the right, Geoff Rickard getting two well taken goals and Mike Harvey working his skills in the D to open up his scoring opportunity. Team 8's tired legs then had to deal with Team 5. Reston Smith, Claire and Alan Sparks were prompting from midfield and Max Longden scored early, beating the previously almost unbeatable Kirsty in goal. Jo and Max then set up Martin Palmer with a simple tap in for number 3. Gareth Nichols pulled one back when he came in at the back post to sweep in a right wing cross into the roof of the net for a spectacular goal. Chris Cutts made the game safe with his run down the right before laying it off for an easy Martin Palmer goal. The final pool game saw Team 6 needing a win to reach the final. Team 7 ran it very close, but it was decided by one strike from Nick Coates.

The match for 7th and 8th place was a good game played with tired legs. The captains opened the scoring with a goal from a Westberries player. Neil Moon equalised at the other end, and Will Holmes thought he had won it, only to find his goal disallowed. The game finished up as a 1-1 draw with both teams tied for 7th place. There was a similar story to the 5th and 6th placed final. Tired legs saw both side slug out a 0-0 draw with both of them ending up sharing 5th place. There was deja vu for the 3rd and 4th place final. There were few chances as Teams 5 and 3 kept each other at bay for another 0-0 draw and 3rd place for each of them. The final was a good game of end to end hockey, in which either side might have made the break through to win the game. In the end it was a passing move down the middle that presented Pete Farrell with a rebound to lash in the only goal of the game. In a post match interview Pete was asked for his comments on his winning goal and his reply was "#@+%$£", which probably sums up the energy commitment everyone put into the day. There were 98 tickets sold which means that almost 100 club members from the men's and ladies sections did (or planned) to take part. An excellent, best ever turn out. However, the memory that will linger most with everyone is Terry's bravery in proposing in front of the gallery, Sarah's look of shocked rapture, and the warmth of everyone's applause. It shows what a fantastic club we are that we can share so much with each other. Congratulations to Terry and Sarah. Thanks go to Dave Wornell and the pool of umpires (Armsby, Griffin A, Morton, Counsell et el). Dave for organising his 9th club day and the umpires for letting the games flow without the need for a single "up ten" let alone any cards.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 4/4/08
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
3^rd XI	v Newent	H	Friendly	4-4	Chalk 2 Longden M Watts
Widgets	v Weston-Super-Mare II	H	Friendly	2-2	Wornell Woodward
Veterans	v O Bristolians	H	Friendly	1-4	Webster
Match comments
3^rd XI: At half time the 3rd team match with Newent had reached the heady heights of 0-0 in this end of season friendly. Newent looked a well organised side and there were a few signs of fatigue from the club dinner the night before. The first half did not reflect the glut of goals that would fly in during the second 35 minutes. Newent opened the scoring, but it didn't take long for Max Longden to pick up a rebound off the pads to hammer in an equaliser. Newent responded to this almost immediately by taking the lead again. Within minutes Westbury had equalised once again. This time Nathan Walkey set up Jack Chalk who calmly played his shot wide of the keeper to make it 2-2. It was now an end to end game, with both sides playing good hockey. Newent once again went ahead with a great individual goal, the visiting center forward took on Pete Murphy, went to his right to open up the space for the shot and found the target with a rising shot. Nathan walkey, the club's leading scorer this season was so impressed he shared a 'high five' with the Newent score as both sides reformed to restart the game. Westbury were once again playing 'catchup' and it was Jack Chalk who delivered the goods again. His fellow Wizard's team mates on the side said that attacking the D from the right and hitting a reverse stick shot/edge along the ground was his trade mark. This he did and his shot found the corner of the goal for 3-3. It seemed that both sides were trading goals every few minutes. However, the pattern changed with Westbury going ahead. Max Longden provided the searching cross from the right that Terry Watts met to tap across the wrong footed keeper, for what looks to be a simple goal, but still needs perfect execution. Newent managed to pull of an equaliser of their own with just s few minutes left on the clock. The game finished 4-4 and was a well contested game by two equally matched sides.
Widgets: The Widgets defence had to work their socks off to keep out a young, fast Weston side who had the lion's share of the firsts half. Duncan Ogilvie and Dave Wornell had the best two chances in the first half, but were unable to beat the Weston goalkeeper. Weston could have piled on quite a few goals if they had held their nerve and having got into the right position, played the ball back to a supporting forward. Instead they either held the ball too long or put the ball across the face of the goal beyond their own forwards. When the first half was drawing to an end, Weston at last made the breakthrough, a defence splitting past found a Weston forward at the far post to sweep in. There was little time left for anything else to happen. From the restart after half time, there were barely a couple of minutes gone when Hugh Woodward worked his magic down the right and provided the perfect slip square for Dave Wornell to pick his spot. The second half was a much more even affair and both sides played well. Inside the last 5 minutes Hugh Woodward, attacked down the middle, beat several defenders and unleashed a massive shot that looked to be the winner. Judges would no doubt have awarded him 9.5 for the quality of his goal. The same can't be said about his erratic goal celebration that was a cross between a three year old dancing and an orangutan looking for a mate. The same judges would have awarded 0.5 and that would have been generous. Hugh said afterwards he thought that the game had been won, but one very late Weston attack produced an even later equaliser. A draw was a fair result, with some good performances on the pitch, especially as a considerable number of the team had been at the club dinner the previous evening. James Pope had one of his best games attacking the space behind the defence.
Veterans: The Veterans put together a lot of good passes in their game against O Bristolians and both sides were evenly matched for most of the game. Westbury's failing was that having played well to get to the opposing 25, they consistently were unable to find the decisive pass to open up any scoring chances. Too often the ball was held up and lost with nothing came from the hard running put in by the midfield. O Bs scored their goal in a first half where neither keeper was seriously tested. Westbury worked their way back into the game. A second half short corner came to Pete Farrell who had injected the ball. His sweep at goal found the defender's knee on the line and Tony Webster tucked in the penalty stroke to tie it up. The game could well have stayed at 1-1, but O Bs had different ideas, and three goals in the last five minutes gave them a flattering 4-1 win. Tom Taylor was a driving force in midfield. Steve Millman, Dave Holliday and Mark Crofts prompted from midfield, but the second half saw precious few chances. On another day the decisive passes would have come and goals would have followed, today was just one of those matches when it just wasn't going to be our day. It was good to see a big squad turn out (15 players) when in the last two vets games we only had 11 and 12.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 28/3/09
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Cardiff Univ	H	Premier 1	2-3	Smearld Haynes P
2^nd XI	v Robinsons III	A	North Div 1	9-0	Watts 2 Moon 2 Coates Blake Colquhoun Mason P Roper G
3^rd XI	v Firebrands III	A	Avon Div	6-3	Walkey 2 Puetz Alger T Pearce-Smith Woodward
Wanderers	v Robinsons IV	H	Br & NW Som Div1	0-0
Wizards	v Robinsons V	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	w/o	(5-0)
Warriors	v S Glos III	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	1-0	Webster
Widgets	v Yate VI	H	Friendly	can
Legends 'A'	v legends 'B'	H	Friendly	4-3	Crofts Sparks Ogilvie Lipfriend
Legends 'B'	v Legends 'A'	H	Friendly	3-4	Edworthy Clark Cocks
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team finished their season with a 3-2 defeat against Cardiff University, but came within millimetres of squaring it with the last hit of the game. Goals from Andy Smearld and Pat Haynes were countered by three from the students. Another penalty spot opportunity came and went without a goal, the fourth in a row with Neller the unfortunate victim off the p-spot jinx. There was another cruel twist on the final short corner. The ball came to Chris Cutts, making his first team debut, he turned and cracked a shot that hit the post and went out of play. Such is the difference between success and disappointment. The first team can now regroup in the summer league ready to stage a challenge next season in Prem 2.
2^nd XI: The word (well text) from Slider was awesome as the twos rounded off their season with a 9-0 demolition of Robinsons. Terry Watts (2) Neil Moon (2) Nick Coates, Stuart Blake, Paul Mason and Gary Roper shared out the goals. This win elevates the seconds to 7th place thus avoiding the 5 places below them that could all possibly be relegation spots depending on how many come down from the National League and the 'knock-on' effect it will have on each division.
3^rd XI: The thirds were in a similar position to the seconds with a 'winner take all' game at Firebrands. The bottom line was that which ever side lost would go down as a result of the mass relegations due to take place this season. Firebrands opened the scoring from a short corner, nudged in at the far post. Westbury were unable to get any pattern into their game and under-hit passes and a lack of pace were all to often evident in the first half. Steve Puetz did bag an equaliser, tapping in Nathan Walkey's short corner rebound. However, two more Firebrands shorts were successful and the home side turned round 3-1 up. The thirds did have several scoring chances before the break, but the home keeper and Nathan's foot (oops) prevented them from scoring. The half time talk must have had some venom in it, as they came out all guns blazing. James Pearce-Smith rifled in a right wing cross, Tommy Alger flicked it on, and Nathan Walkey was there like a tennis player at the net to hit the ball on the volley. It only took a minute to score again. This time Nathan worked the ball in at the near post, drew the keeper and pulled it back for Tom Alger to tap in for 3-3. By now the thirds were on fire, full of pace, passing the ball around much more effectively and causing all sorts of problems for the home defence. Nathan put them ahead, his first cross-come-shot hit the keeper and fell nicely for him to push into an empty net. Then came a superb strike from James Pearce-Smith from the top of the D. Hugh Woodward rounded it all off cleverly slipping the ball under the goalkeeper after working his way around the D. This was a first class performance from the thirds that moved them up to 6th place and pushed Firebrands down to 9th.
Wanderers: Steve Millman reported that Robinsons had zero shot and zero goals, the Wanderers had many shots and.......zero goals. Not quite the end of season finale that the Wanderers might have expected. Their luck in front of goal was missing. Their build up was a bit ponderous and many of the passes into the D were predictable. However, the team finished 4th with some very good results this season. Next season they will need to find consistency to push for the top spots in this division, never-the-less it has been a successful season for Jimmer's crew.
Wizards: Robs were unable to raise a side and a 5-0 walk-over is the anticipated outcome for this game. A disappointing way to finish the campaign. If the RSC do award the game the Wizards will have finished in 7th place having flirted with relegation.
Warriors: The Warriors have been playing with some style in 2009, but sadly they fell well below their own standard in a scrappy encounter with winless S Glos. Westbury struggled to make progress in moving the ball forward and didn't exploit the space in behind the visiting defence. JJ, who has had a very successful season was able to maintain another clean sheet. When Tom Fishley was introduced into the game he brought a gasp of 'awe and wonder' from the watching Wizards, with a clever turn that took him past three defenders. The deadlock was eventually broken, when Dom Harris threaded the ball through for Tony Webster to strike the only goal of a memorably forgettable game. The positive is that the Warriors went 9 games unbeaten, losing only once in 2009 (to league winners in waiting O Bs). If they can take this form into next season and their experienced forwards came stay injury free, they can mount a serious challenge at the top of the table.
Widgets & Wizards: The Widgets and Wizards mixed up their two sides for an intra-club friendly. It shows the strength in depth the club has, that these two sides played out a quality game. There was a comedy moment a minute into the game when Max Longden turned quickly bundling Jez (his dad) to the ground like a lumberjack felling a giant redwood. This earned Max a 'tongue in cheek' green card with the advice to "Be gentle with your 'old man', he's your meal ticket!" It finished 4-3 to the yellow team. The yellows took a 2-0 lead with goals from Mark Crofts and Alan Sparks. Stuart Edworthy pulled a goal back for the reds early in the second half. Duncan Ogilvie then scored a sneaky goal. He got a touch to a stinging cross that hit Andy Pound spun up and over the keeper with the spin taking it just over the line. Poor Andy lost sight of it and couldn't see it inches behind him crossing the line almost in slow motion! Ben Lipfriend then banged in a smart goal, after another of James Popes many good runs down the right, for a 4-2 lead for the yellows. Just as the clock ran down, Cocksy made a great run into the D and hammered in a goal with the last hit of the game. There were some impressive performances from the lads who have broken into adult hockey. Ed Minchin and Ben Lipfriend are following the example of Max Longden, showing skill, tenacity and a growing knowledge of how to play this game of ours very effectively. There were many other good performances across the pitch. Well done to everyone who took part.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 21/3/09
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Exeter Univ II	H	Premier 1	3-3	Haynes P Thomas J Nichols G
2^nd XI	v Somerset Gryphons	A	North Div 1	2-0	Cutts Moon
3^rd XI	v W Wilts III	A	Avon Div	3-4	Griffin 2 Longden M
Wanderers	v O Bristolians III	H	Br & NW Som Div1	2-3	Millman S Farrell
Wizards	v Bristol UWE III	H	Br & NW Som Div 2	3-6	Poulsom Sparks Longden J
Warriors	v Bristol UWE IV	A	Br & NW Som Div 3	4-4	Webster 2 Thomas P Palmer M
Widgets	v Firebrands VI	A	Br & NW Som Div 3	1-3	Spenser
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team had a 3-3 draw with Exeter University in their penultimate game of the season.
2^nd XI: The seconds pulled off a good win at Somerset Gryphons. If the twos win their final game and Gryphons lose to Cardiff & UWIC next week, then they can leap frog them in the final table.
3^rd XI: The third team had a close match at West Wilts but came away empty handed in a 4-3 defeat. Skipper Andy Griffin was on target twice and Max Longen once (on the same day as his dad scored!)
Wanderers: The Wanderers were another team who finished up on the losing end of a close scoring match. They lost 3-2 to O Bristolians with Steve Millman and Pete Farrell getting the goals.
Wizards: The Wizards found the students from Bristol UWE a tough team to handle. The visitors exploited the veteran ( and AJ) defence with their pace and skill. Bristol opened up a 2 goal lead in an end to end first half. The Wizards never gave in and managed through hard work and tenacity to get themselves back into the game by half time. Chris Poulsom had a strong run down the middle, beating several defenders, before chipping his shot over the keeper. Next Alan Sparks, who had a good game at right mid, followed up a shot off the keeper's pads to ram home to bring the scores level. Bristol opened the second half by absorbing the first couple of Westbury attacks and then counter attacking at speed to score two goals in two minutes. This was a big ask of the Wizards to pull it back again, but they stuck at their task and a foot on the line gave Jez Longden the chance to score from the p-spot. He did with in the style of his many first team penalty strokes, before his enforced retirement from that level of hockey, (his son Max also scored on the same day!) The game was well contested right down to the final whistle, but Bristol scored with five minutes to go and again with a short corner in time added on for the short to be completed. This was a 6-3 defeat, but there was no lack of effort on the part of the Wizards, they fought all the way to attempt to get a result.
Warriors: The Warriors fell behind to an early goal at Bristol UWE, against a strong well organised side. It didn't take long for the warriors to equalise, the goal coming from Tony Webster who stopped and struck a short corner. Both teams created some good scoring chances, but whereas Westbury's efforts went just outside the post, Bristol put two of theirs in to establish a 3-1 cushion at half time. Last year the Warriors would have been blown away in this position, but this year has been a revelation with the introduction of 'young blood'. Tom Fishley and ben Lipfriend turned on a superb second half show down the right hand side of the pitch, causing the home defence all manner of problems. Tom was the architect of the comeback, finding Pete Thomas. Pete controlled the ball turned and unleashed the fastest shot I've ever seen him hit. If it had been a cricket test match the speedometer would have recorded 91.5 mph! Westbury were looking strong with Dave Holliday and Jamie Cranfield working hard in the middle. Next it was Ben's turn to carve out a chance. His skillful run down the right and a perfectly weighted diagonal pass across the D allowed Martin Palmer to slam the ball past the keeper into the roof of the net from10 metre out. There was still time for a 'twist in the tail'. A goal mouth melee, with five minutes to go, saw Tony Webster nudge the ball in at the third or fourth go from under the keeper's pads from close range to put the Warriors 4-3 up. Almost immediately Bristol attacked and grabbed an equaliser. It took some resolute defending for the last three or four minutes to keep out the pacy students to secure a well earned draw in a game that came within minutes of being a incredible come back win. Well done to the Warriors who have gone on an eight game unbeaten run with just the bottom team to play next week.
Widgets: The Widgets looked good going forward at Firebrands and could easily have gone into a lead. Both sides created chances, with Westbury having more than the home team. However, a defensive error saw a wayward clearance go straight to a home forward in the D who had time and space to score. Tim Dawson showed his skills on his return to playing and Joe Connelly was back after a spell out with injury. Will Enderby and Anthony Spenser looked strong on the ball when going forward. The score stayed at 1-0 to Firebrands at half time. The Widgets had the perfect start to the second half. Anthony Spenser had the ball on the left hand side of the D. His push across the face of the goal from a narrow angle was excellently judged, going in at the far post for his first goal for the club. The home team were very effective going forward, particularly down the right. Two second half goals for the home side put the game out of reach of the Widgets, losing their final league game by 3-1. They can still be pleased with their season's total of seven wins and 21 points. They have introduced a number of young players to the club and had the services of several new players who have moved up to higher teams.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 14/3/09
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Team Bath Buccs II	A	Premier 1	3-4	Thomas J 2 Richardson
2^nd XI	v Cirencester	H	North Div 1	5-4	Cutts 2 Hill Nichols G Watts
3^rd XI	v Team Bath Buccs V	H	Avon Div	1-3	Longden M
Wanderers	v Bristol & West IV	A	Br & NW Som Div1	3-3	Farrell 2 Millman S
Wizards	v N Somerset	A	Br & NW Som Div 2	2-3	Pope Edworthy
Warriors	v O Bristolians V	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	5-0	Webster 2 Brown Thomas P Harvey
Widgets	v Devizes III	H	Friendly	6-1	Poulsom 3 Woodward 2 Yuill
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team lost their bottom of the table match with Bath Buccs by four goals to three. Joe Thomas (2) and Neil Richardson were on target.
2^nd XI: The seconds pulled off an impressive victory at home to a good Cirencester team. Having established a 5-2 lead with two goals from Chris Cutts and one each from Gareth Nichols (from the penalty spot), Rich Hill and Terry Watts. Cirencester staged a comeback with two goals. The seconds had to play out the last couple of minutes 'football style' holding the ball up in the left wing corner of the pitch to run the clock down. They did this successfully and gained all three points.
3^rd XI: A Max Longden goal was the consolation for the thirds in their 3-1 home defeat to Bath Buccs.
Wanderers: The Wanderers were 1-0 up and then 3-1 down against Bristol & West at Winterborne. The Wanderers fought back with two goals to gain a point with two goals from Steve Millman and one from Pete Farrell.
Wizards: The Wizards were unable to come a strong N Somerset side and lost 3-2. Mark Crofts reported that they had a lot of possession in the second half and many short corners, but were disappointingly unable to convert any of their chances into an equaliser. James Pope and Stuart Edworthy were the scorers.
Warriors: The Warriors were very impressive in the home match with O Bristolians. A Martin Palmer shot was saved by Steve Edge in the OBs goal, but Graeme Brown was on hand to tap in at the far post. Tony Webster made it 2-0 at half time with a thumping shot, and was unlucky with several other shots that went just wide. Steve Edge, lying on the ground, mad an incredible stick save to deny Tony a goal after he had gone round him. In the second half Pete Thomas hit a cross shot that went into the roof of the net off a defender's stick. This was Pete's 100th winter and summer goal. Mike Harvey finished off a good team move, much of it in involving Tony Webster and Tony got number five with another scorching shot. Adam Banting, Dave Holliday and Dom Harris ran the midfield in an excellent team performance.
Widgets: The Widgets won 6-1 against a young Devizes team. Chris Poulsom notched a hat-trick, Hugh Woodward grabbed two on his return from injury and Alex Yuill scored the remaining goal.

Westbury & United Banks HC: Results for Saturday 7/3/09
Team	Opponents		League	Scr	Scorers
1^st XI	v Devizes	H	Premier 1	0-3
2^nd XI	v Whitchurch II	A	North Div 1	4-4	Nichols G 2 Moon Cutts
3^rd XI	v N Wilts	A	Avon Div	4-2	Scott Poulsom Pearce-Smith Walkey
Wanderers	v Firebrands V	H	Br & NW Som Div1	4-2	Farrell 2 Harris Dave Haynes J
Wizards	v Bristol & West VI	H	Br & NW Som Div 2	4-0	Banting A 2 Edworthy Cranfield
Warriors	v Firebrands VI	A	Br & NW Som Div 3	2-2	Lipfriend Longden J
Widgets	v Bristol & West VIII	H	Br & NW Som Div 3	2-1	Glynn Sheppard
Match comments
1^st XI: The first team were at home to Devizes and fought a defensive battle to contain well organised opponents. They kept them at bay for 34 minutes through a combination of good goalkeeping and solid covering. A dubious short corner gave Devizes the lead on the stroke of half time. There was more of the same in the second half, with Devizes scoring twice more. Liam Cureton showed some neat touches and good passes on his debut.
2^nd XI: The seconds shared eight goals with Whitchurch, with both teams earning a point. They came back from 4-2 down to get two late goals to tie the game.
3^rd XI: The third team were in control of their game against N Wilts and returned from Swindon with three valuable points. Doug Scott, Chris Poulsom, Nathan Walkey and James Pearce-Smith were on target.
Wanderers: The Wanderers served up some great hockey against an experienced Firebrands side. The Wanderers pace was a telling factor in this victory. Firebrands played a long ball game to two lone strikers who did manage to score twice, the second coming very late, when the win was almost guaranteed. Firebrands scored first, before Pete Farrell equalised from a well struck short corner. Paxo was called into action to keep out a number of shot,s including a diving stick stop low to his right, but Westbury had the greater share of possession and looked a very good side. They were unlucky not to have scored several goals. Throughout the game the Brand's veteran goalkeeper pulled of some fantastic saves. At half time the score was still tied at 1-1. It took a great goal to put the Wanderers ahead. Dave Harris used his skill and footwork to beat a defender on the left side of the D, after the umpire had played the advantage after an earlier foul. Dave's pass found Pete Farrell on the back line to the left of the goal. He worked his way past a defender and flicked the ball in from the narrowest of angles. The Wanderers were by now in full stride and Bomber capped a fine game by striking from the top of the D. The fourth goal came when Tom Taylor, shirking his defensive duties, was in the right wing position. He beat his man, cut in down the back line before sliding a perfect pass back to James Haynes to slot home. The whole team played exceptionally well, their running was effective, their passing was accurate and they fully deserved this win.
Wizards: The Wizards banged in 4 goals against Bristol & West to gain all the points. Adam Banting hit the net twice, Stuart Edworthy and Jamie Cranfield completed the scoring.
Warriors: The Warriors played some of their best hockey of the season in the first half against Firebrands. Playing up the slope at Failand, Sam Brewer, Tom Fishley and Ben Lipfriend were cutting holes in the home defence, with Dave Holliday acting as a strong link in the middle of the pitch. There were numerous Westbury chances with some near misses and some good saves from the home keeper. The pressure paid off when Ben Lipfriend worked his way past several defenders before flicking the ball past the keeper for a very well taken goal. A second goal was needed and it came just before the break. Jez Longden hammered in a short corner to make it 2-0. There was a good first half from Pete Ratcliffe who was unlucky not to score himself. The half time whistle as it often does, stopped the free-flowing hockey that the Warriors had been playing, they didn't quite get a grip on the game like they did in the first half. There were still several chances to get the killer third goal, but the team seemed to lack the confidence to pull out the right sort of shot. Instead Firebrands scored a freak goal. A home forward hit a powerful cross from the right hand side of the D. It caught a wicked defection off a Westbury stick and flew past JJ into the top near-side corner of the net. This was the first goal that the Warriors have conceded in over five and a half hours of hockey! The Warriors defence went 'walkabouts' for a moment after the home team had stepped up their game and they snatched an equaliser with a break that gave them a man over and a simple opportunity 15 minutes from the end. There was always the danger that Firebrands could sneak a winner and Jon Jarvis had to be very alert to keep them out on more than one occasion. On the final whistle Firebrands had a short corner. They had three attempts at goal, all kept out by JJ and co, to ensure the Warriors went home with a point.
Widgets: The Widgets fell behind to a goal from Bristol & West. Will Glynn, returning from injury squared the match with a goal. The result was decided by the final touch of the game. Westbury were awarded a short corner, and the whistle went for time. Up came Austin Sheppard from full back, and Mr Reliable banged in the short to win the game 2-1.

Goal Chart: After 4/4/09 (corrected for errors 8/4/09)