Hockey Results & Current League Stats
The results of this past weekend’s hockey games, as well as the current league statistics follows below:
Women’s A Division
Ravens 0 Wildcats 2
In the only A league game of the weekend, Ravens and Wildcats went head to head with Wildcats coming up game winners on this occasion. Elizabeth Stewart worked tirelessly throughout the match and scored early in the first half with Karen Campbell being awarded a goal in the final few minutes of the game. With Ravens trying different formations in this opening round to find what works best for them, it was clear that junior, Kristen Morbey found her niche on the right side this week making several important plays with Amber Port and both connecting well with Emma Simmons throughout the match. A strong midfield comprising Kirsten Faria, Jess McLure and Lindsay Founds produced some fine attacking play with several attempts on goal by Georgia Harris being nixed by the Wildcats keeper. Along with some other teams in the league, Ravens are keen to use this season to rebuild their squad with much emphasis being placed on grooming and encouraging their younger players to play a major role in A games.
Women’s B Division
Bluebirds 8 Cardinals 0
As expected, Cardinals were ready for a very tough match against a very experienced Bluebirds side and most certainly had their work cut out for them for 70 minutes with Joanne Smith-Barrow scoring a hat trick during the match with the other Bluebirds scorers being Hilary Stoddard, Maria Harris, Liz Twite, Sarah Smith and Alison Van Steensburg.
Cardinals should be commended for the great effort produced by mixed team of 5 senior players and several young, newcomers Pier Simons, Nastassia Moses, Kalshae Matthews, Jashante Simons and Zianna Rubaine and with their combined hard work and determination were able to keep the score to an admirable 2-0 at half time. Cardinals’ centre back, Candy Foggo, played a crucial role in consistently distributing the ball through her midfield player Adrien Lewis to create some attacking chances through their forwards, and both Kaywell Outerbridge and Goalkeeper, Holly Augustus produced some excellent defensive plays with Augustus making several important saves throughout the match. With Cardinals’ aiming to expose and embrace youngsters to field hockey, they will no doubt take this loss as a learning experience and look to even the score when they next encounter this is skilled, veteran Bluebirds team.
Budgies 6 Wildcats 2
Returning to hockey after taking a few years off, Melanie Fullerton stamped her authority in this match by scoring a hat trick. Other Budgies goal scorers were Tracy Stewart (2) and Jaselle Smith. Both Karen Campbell and Cerepha Bridgeman managed to net 2 goals for Wildcats leaving the final score at 6–2.
Swallows 1 Canaries 0
Veteran Pat Harvey scored a field goal for Swallows in their 1–0 win over the Canaries.
Ravens 2 Longtails 0
Longtails did well to prevent Ravens scoring in the first half but conceded two goals in the second half when Ravens Susan Ward and Amber Port scored from two penalty corners.
Men’s Division
Spartans 0 Upstarts 2
Goal scorers Donnie Moniz and Tyler Smith gave Upstarts a 2-0 victory over Spartans.
Polecats 6 Panthers 1
Polecats were able to net 6 goals against Panthers with Donnie Simmons scoring a hat trick during the game with the other Polecats scorers being Shannon Simons (2) and Nigel Deane. Panthers pulled a goal back in the 54th minute with Jeremy Shrubb scoring a field goal.
With the leagues games now finished for the Christmas break, the current league statistics are as follows:
A League standings:
Budgies 7 points
Wildcats 6 points
Canaries 3 points
Ravens 1 point
Present top goal scorer – Iman Smith – Budgies (3 goals)
B League standings:
Budgies 15 points
Bluebirds 9 points
Ravens 7 points
Wildcats 6 points
Swallows 4 points
Longtail Canaries 1 point
Cardinals 1 point
Canaries 0 points
Present top goal scorer – Jasalle Smith – Budgies (5 goals)
Men’s League standings:
Polecats 9 points
Chameleons 6 points
Panthers 4 points
Upstarts 4 points
Spartans 0 points
Present top goal scorer – Donnie Simmons- Polecats (6 goals)
Hello,
I would like to see a more even description for all of the games. Having paragraphs for some, and sentences for others is unfair to all of the teams.
Please can someone do something about this to make it even.
Thanks
Hockey Player
We would love to be able to cover more, but cannot be at every single game of all 35 sports played in Bermuda, so rely on coaches many times to help us with game summaries. The other option is zero coverage, so we do appreciate the assistance the hockey coaches give us.
So for your request, you would need to speak to the Coaches, or you can assist yourself if you are a hockey player. Feel free to mail things in anytime…