The Males’s Premier Division desk is taking form after this weekend’s double header video games takes us previous the midway level of the primary stage of the league.
Champions Outdated Georgians are the one group with a 100% report and have opened up a 5 level benefit on the high of the desk. They had been made to work exhausting for the factors on Saturday, overcoming Beeston to win 3-2, the one time they’ve scored fewer than 5 objectives in a sport, however had an emphatic 9-2 win at Oxted on Sunday the place they led 7-2 on the break.
Surbiton and Holcombe are stage on factors in second, though the previous have a sport in hand, they usually drew 4-4 on Saturday at Holcombe with Luke Taylor’s last-minute conversion of a second nook incomes a share of the spoils for Surbiton. Each adopted this up with wins on Sunday. Teague Marcano netted a hat-trick in Holcombe’s 4-2 win at East Grinstead and Struan Walker & Will Haspel a brace every of their 5-2 defeat of Beeston. Beeston final beat Surbiton in November 2018, nevertheless Henry Croft did rating, as he did on Saturday, to maintain up his report of scoring in each sport thus far this season.
Wimbledon are fourth and picked up six factors over the weekend with slim wins towards East Grinstead, 3-2 and Hampstead & Westminster 2-1. Hampstead are but to win at dwelling this season however maintained their 100% away report on Saturday, profitable 5-2 with Matt Guise-Brown scoring three.
Ioan Wall additionally hit a hat-trick on Saturday for Cardiff & Met in a 3-2 win at Oxted. They too made it a six-point weekend at they beat Richmond 7-0 on Sunday, their first ever Premier Division dwelling win, all their objectives coming within the second half. This introduced Richmond again down with a bump after they picked up their first Premier Division factors the day earlier than in a 3-1 win towards Bowdon within the battle of the promoted groups. Bowdon returned empty-handed from their London weekend as they misplaced 4-3 at Southgate on Sunday the place Archie Foster’s hat-trick earned the house group’s first factors of the marketing campaign; Bowdon now the one group with out a level.
We can have a round-up of the opposite EHL Divisions to come back, the Targets of the Week clips for each days will probably be out on Wednesday and the EHL Premier Preview podcast, looking forward to subsequent Saturday’s video games lands on Thursday night. Additionally see our new league net pages right here.
High Scorers:
Sam Ward (Outdated Georgians) 10
Struan Walker (Surbiton) 9
Alan Forsyth (Outdated Georgians) 8
Matt Guise-Brown (Hampstead & Westminster) 8
Henry Croft (Beeston) 7
Teague Marcano (Holcombe) 7
Tom Carson (Outdated Georgians) 7
Clear Sheets:
James Mazarelo (Surbiton) 1
Ore Ogunlana (Wimbledon) 1
Mark Philpot (Cardiff & Met) 1
Toby Reynolds-Cotterill (Hampstead & Westminster) 1