Slazenger Hockey Club

Junior

Report: 31-10-2004 – Boys U10’s Tournament

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Slazenger U10’s traveled to York to take part in a tournament at Huntington School and returned home with two wins and three draws from their five matches.

Slazenger began the first of five matches with probably their strongest six to take on York’s B team and scoring in the opening minutes through Daniel Perry.

Jake Barras soon made this two with his first goal of the season to seal the win.

The second game against Wakefield was more even and the Horbury club took the lead when Ailish Hendry threaded the ball through to Henry Moore who then pushed the ball into the Wakefield D where Perry tapped it in.

Henry Moore made the game safe with a Slazenger goal.

The third game against Normanby Park looked like ending in defeat after a real end-to-end battle, but Barras managed to secure two points with an equaliser in the dying seconds.

The final two games against Ben Rhydding C and Chapeltown B finished goalless.

Report: 17-10-2004 – Boys U14’s

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This was the U14 first tournament day of the season.

Slazengers set out with three players short but still turned out with the hope of borrowing players. We did manage to borrow players from both Leeds and Doncaster, thanks to all those lads. We also had three new players Aled, Robert and Adam all of whom have only being playing a matter of weeks, but they held their own and played well.

Slazengers pulled well together with lots of positive encouragement from their Captain Jermane Cockerill in midfield. Slazenger’s only goal of the tournament came from a well worked piece of work by Kayleigh Ventom to leave Alex cook to tap the ball home into the net. Tessa Downs had a great game in goals and Philip Midgley over came a nasty knock on the ankle to complete the last game and again worked well.

Slazenger’s final results for the day were that we won one, lost one, and drew one.

Please Note: Junior Hockey coaching sessions, Sunday 10 till 12 contact Steve Wood 01924 279351

Report: 17-10-2004 – Girls U10’s

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Slazenger U10 Girls teams’ season got off to a steady start against York with a 0-0 draw; a fair result for a side with several new players including Emily Barnett, Catreena Ferguson and Elinor Jackson.

In the next match, they were on the wrong end of a 4-0 defeat to an experienced Wakefield side. Slaz’ cause was not helped by the loss of defender Hannah Barnett who had to leave the field with a hand injury.

Their third match against Leeds also finished 0-0 but there were signs the team is coming together with Isaac Fisher providing a number of surging runs from midfield and linked well with Chloe Bates in attack.

Against York B, Slazenger dominated for most of the match bur conceded a soft goal and it was left to Heather Bates to provide the equaliser.

The final match against Driffield also ended goalless.

Report : 26-09-2004 – Boys U10

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Competing in the Yorkshire Youth Hockey League; Held at Huntington School, York. Sunday 26th September 2004.

The start of the first of five tournaments planned for the 2004-2005 season was delayed due to the late arrival of the facilities key holder.

Slazenger’s start this season playing in the lower of three leagues, our team of three Boys and two Girls (we are desperate to recruit more Boys to the side) been made up to the necessary six with the help of players gratefully borrowed from Chapeltown or Wakefield. Our opponents on the day were reduced to four teams with the absence of Thirsk.

The first game was against Harrogate who were a strong team that our inexperienced players, suffering from the lack of the strong defensive strength of the absent Ailish Hendry, found it very difficult to defend against. The result being a resounding 5-0 defeat.

In our second game, against Ben Rhydding B, although the team began to come together and find more shape, even putting together a chance or two on goal. Again our competition proved too strong scoring four goals, the first of which came from a shot from outside the D, rebounding off of our post into the path of their attacker (but they all count). Final score 4-0 to Ben Rhydding B.

Slazenger’s started our third game against Chapeltown in a much more positive manner, putting our opponents under pressure from early in the game. This pressure bringing a goal in the first few minutes scored by Daniel Perry after all our attacking players had seen a touch of the ball inside the Chapeltown D. They were quick to come back at us, until an attack on our goal was thwarted by the umpires whistle when Slazenger’s Issac Fisher was struck in the chest by a ball unintentionally flicked up off a Chapletown stick. We were soon back on the attack ourselves though, Daniel again managing to force a goal after another goal mouth scramble. Chapeltown popped in a consolation goal near the end of the eight-minute game with some neat “brake-away” play involving Joshua, a playing we had “borrowed” earlier in the tournament. Final score 2-1 to Slazengers.

In our final game against York B a third girl, Sophie from Chapletown made up the numbers off our team. We began in the same attacking style and again found ourselves one nil up early in the game. With players committing to attack we were vulnerable to any York break, but half way through the game Issac turned one of this breaks into a goal for Slazengers by driving the length of the pitch, a terrific effort from the six year old. After a final successful tackle on the edge of York’s D Daniel was on hand to pick up the loose ball and force through from the right wing, along the goal line and finish the move with a reverse stick push into the net. The final score of 2-0 could have been 3 when Heather Bates was ideally positioned in front of goal at the end of a pass when the full time whistle blow.

Slazenger’s result of two wins and two defeats will depend on other teams results but will probably see us remain in the third division for the next tournament on the 31st October.

Slazenger Junior Hockey are keen to recruit new members. Training is held on Sunday 10am till 12 noon at Slazenger sports and social club in Horbury (Address on Main Web Page).

Team on photo attached to e-mail; Front row left to right Chloe Bates, Issac Fisher, Heather Bates. Back row left to right Daniel Perry, Jake Barras.

October, we are not charging new prospective members for coaching, and are running our annual “Bring a Buddy Month

Slazenger Starlets Selected for Yorkshire

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SLAZENGER Hockey Club is celebrating after four of its young players were picked for the West Yorkshire Youth Hockey teams.

The quartet are Lee Secker (U16), Gareth Ventom (U14), Jermane Cockerill and Christopher Wood (U13s) and they were picked after attending four weeks of development training with 30 other players from each age group, with 16 eventually making the cut.

A spokesperson for the Slazenger club said: “All the boys had to prove they had exceptional ball skills and could play in different positions and also play as a team with others they had never played with before.

“A lot of new friendships have been formed through these sessions for the boys as well as some new hockey skills.

“CCC who sponsored shirts for the club’s junior section said they were delighted with the boys’ success and will continue to help and support them in the future.”