Ladies 1sts Vs East Coast

 Saturday 12th March 2022

East Women’s Hockey League

Division 2 North East

Broadland    1     East Coast   0

Broadland playing the better hockey in the first half had a number of shots that were tantalizingly wide of the mark.  Natasha Blyth in an unfamiliar forward role was unlucky not to open the scoring when one of her attempts came back off the post.  East Coast equally had plenty of the ball and a number penalty corners but with their receiver failing to get a stick on the ball on the majority of occasions, so their routines broke down and came to nothing.   With no score at the break and both sides working hard to gain the upper hand there were few clear opportunities for either team to open the scoring. Broadland continued to take the game to their opponents and had a number of penalty corners themselves especially late on in the second half. With less than two minutes to go Broadland had the breakthrough their endeavour’s deserved when second half substitute Dani Parke attempted to lob the East Coast goalkeeper.at a penalty corner   Her effort was on target but lacked pace and was parried by the East Coast goalkeeper into the path of the  Broadland forwards.  The East Coast defenders’ unable to get any contact on the ball  could only watch as Natasha Blyth put a powerful shot in from the edge of the circle which took a slight deflection raising  the ball into a colleague’s body and over then over the line. Broadland had to defend an overtime penalty corner late on, but this was easily cleared by captain Jen Crawford.   Defender Hattie Grimes was Broadland’s star player.

Division 5 North

Broadland III   3     Norwich City VI   0

Men’s East Hockey League

Division 4 North East

Sudbury II   1      Broadland Exiles   9

Promoted AGAIN!

Broadland Exiles surged through the 100 goal mark to record their 15th win of the season and promotion for the second season running.  Of the 108 goals Dan Cheeseman has netted 70 times and is their leading marks man.  Ed Sidgwick has scored 11 goals and another 14 players representing the Exiles have netted a one or more goals this season.  Today Dan Cheeseman scored 5, Bertie Tulley 2, Rob Lukey and Sam Brewster.  Sudbury did find the Exiles net but were totally outclass by the forward play of their visitors.