Slazenger Hockey Club

York

Report: 15-10-2006 – Girls U10’s

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Slazenger U10s Girls A made a good start to their season with two wins from five in the first tournament of the new campaign.

The team got off to a bright start as Elvie Johnstone scored the winning goal in the 1-0 victory over Ben Rhydding in the opening match.

Slazenger picked up their second win with a 4-0 victory over York B.

Ellie Spruce scored her first ever hat-trick while Chloe Bates completed the scoring and Catreena Ferguson and Dearbhla O’Connell impressed in defence. The team suffered close-fought defeats against Harrogate, Kirklees and York A.

Slazenger U10 Girls B made a respectable start to the season as they picked up a win, two draws and three defeats against more experienced opposition.

Kristina Hall-Jackson lead the way in the scoring stakes with three fantastic goals against Driffield while new members Phillipa Lister and Eleanor Westwood made promising debuts for the team.

Olivia Jackson was impressive in defence alongside Emily Paton who made her debut as a sweeper while Millie Crowther performed well in several different positions.
 
Report from tournament played on Sunday 15th October 2006

Report: 26-03-2006 – Boys U10 Tournamenrt

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Slazenger U10s Boys played their last tournament of the season at Huntingdon and despite some disappointing results, they showed great progress.

With no chance of silverware this season, Slazenger gave boys who will still be young enough to play next season a run out.

The best result was an opening 0-0 draw with York B with Alex Byram and Isaac Fisher attacking well.

Defeats to Halifax, Bradford, Doncaster and Kirklees followed but despite this they defended well and showed great potential.

Report for tournament on 26th March 2006 at Huntingdon High School

Report: 05-03-2006 – Boys U10 Tournament

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A strong Slazenger U10 Boys line-up blitzed all-comers to claim a morale-boosting quartet of wins in the latest Yorkshire Youth Hockey League series of tournament fixtures at York’s Huntington School.

Hero of the hour was player-of-the-tournament Jenson Brook, who plundered a superb nine goals in a virtuoso showing.

After a decent set of results in the Janaury tournament, Slaz were unfortunate to be relegated to the third league for the penultimate tournament of the season on goal difference and with the chance of a trophy gone, the club were able to take a larger than normal squad.

Their impressive victory roll started with a 2-0 success over Chapeltown A, ahead of a 4-0 thumping of their B side.

Further emphatic wins were notched against Wakefield, vanquished 4-0 in a one-sided derby and Airedale, beaten 4-1.

Star of the show was Brook, with his best goal coming against Chapeltown B, when he netted a well-struck angled shot after a fine solo run.

The industrious James Bennett also found the net twice, while Isaac Fisher claimed a hat-trick of goals.

Ralph Toon was beaten only once in an eye-catching showing.

Report: 26-02-2006 – Girls U10 Tournament

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Slazenger U10 girls had mixed results in the fifth tournament of the season but opened with some great hockey against LA Carnegie.

Rebecca Jessop opened the scoring followed by Lucy Kent with Ellie Spruce nearly making it three.

The next game was a much closer contest against Harrogate who took a one goal lead and managed to keep Slazenger out.

A 1-1 draw was fought out in the next game with York B with Chloe Bates scoring the goal from a Sophie McGhie pass.

The final game was against a strong York A team who played a good passing game to run out 4-0 winners.

Report: 12-02-2006 – Boys U12 Tournament

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Slazenger U12s played in the latest tournament and produced some excellent performances.

The programme was shortened to a four matches because of the school holidays.

Slazenger held their first opponents Normandy Park B to a creditable 0-0 draw, given that the opposition had borrowed several players from their A team.

The team had to battle hard with Danny Perry and the rest of the Slazenger midfield putting in a lot of effort.

York B were not quite of the same standard as Normanby but there were still chances at both ends with goalkeeper Adam Davis and defender Thomas Kent making saves before Jack Kitchen netted for Slazenger.

Next followed Chapeltown with nothing to split the two teams with Jack Barras going close for Slazenger.

Chapeltown scored the only goal with a well-taken shot.

The final game was against the strongest side in the group, Thirsk, which ended in a goalless draw after some resolute defending.

Worthy of a special mention are Jenson Brook, Tom Logan and Isaac Fisher, who not only played all the Slazenger games but played three matches for Normanby, who were short of players.

 
Report from tournament played by Boys U12’s on 12th February 2006, printed in Wakefield Express on 14th Feb 06