Oxted secured a spot in Males’s Premier Division Finals after finishing a battling league double for the primary time over East Grinstead on Saturday evening.
After prevailing 3-2 in September, Oxted received 3-1 to earn a ticket to the highest eight and end high of the Final Six desk.
Jamie Batten, Chris Porter and Bradley Sherwood netted for Oxted, with Simon Faulkner selecting a sixty fifth minute penalty nook comfort purpose.
Nick Giles, Oxted’s participant coach, mentioned: “With ourselves and EG being the native derby to finish the part on was actually thrilling. I’m happy the crew put collectively a few of their greatest hockey in spells in opposition to a well-organised and attacking crew and we got here out the best facet.
“Will probably be a giant and thrilling problem to be within the high eight within the league. It’s an analogous place we had from final yr and it’ll now be a case of can we construct on what we’ve completed and the expertise from final season to go one additional.”
College of Nottingham netted a primary Premier Division win over their native rivals Beeston, who had already secured a Premier Division finals place.
Beeston had received all three earlier matches, however UoN proved a category act as they received solely their second high flight recreation in 16 matches. Oliver Lander led the way in which with a double and Nottingham’s key win moved them above Studying within the race to keep away from relegation.Â
Cardiff & Met keep three factors forward of UoN after carving a telling 5-1 win over Studying, who now sit backside.
Studying’s hapless house file noticed them rack up an eighth defeat in a row. Charlie Hunte and Jack Pritchard each scored braces as Cardiff recorded their largest Premier Division victory – and their third away from house.
Within the closing spherical of matches within the High Six, Outdated Georgians completed six factors forward of Wimbledon after an authoritative 7-2 win over Wimbledon on Saturday.
With their 14th successive three pointer, in addition they ended Wimbledon’s personal nine-game successful run.
James and Ed Carson each scored twice as OGs netted 5 occasions within the final 14 minutes to consign Wimbledon to their largest Premier Division defeat since 2014.
Surbiton moved unbeaten in 5 visits at Hampstead & Westminster with a cushty 3-0 win. Luke Taylor netted through a penalty stroke and nook both facet of James Gall’s purpose as H&W misplaced their fourth house match of their final 5.
In the meantime, Southgate’s 3-0 defeat to Holcombe was their sixth in a row forward of the Premier Division Finals.
In solely their second high flight assembly, Alex Pendle, Tim Guise-Brown and Louis Duprez secured the league double after their 5-2 win in September.