Vitality Girls’s Hockey League Preview – 5 March 2022
Surbiton face their second successive prime of the desk conflict as they go to Hampstead & Westminster on Saturday afternoon. Having overwhelmed East Grinstead 6-0 at residence final weekend to open up a 3 level lead on the prime of the Premier Division High Six desk, Surbiton now have Hampstead as their nearest rivals following Hampstead’s 4-2 win at Beeston which ended a run of 4 video games and not using a win. That run began when Surbiton beat Hampstead 3-2 at Sugden Street in November to finish a run of ten successive wins, starting with Hampstead’s ultimate match of 2020-21.
East Grinstead, at the moment in third place, host sixth-placed Clifton Robinsons, who’ve received as soon as in six journeys to West Sussex since East Grinstead had been promoted to the Premier Division in 2014-15. East Grinstead received 6-1 again in November, when Clifton final visited Saint Hill and East Grinstead will probably be hoping to remain in contact with the highest two.
Fifth positioned Beeston journey to fourth-placed Wimbledon, the place they crashed 6-0 in Part One final October. Wimbledon had been again on the profitable path final weekend after they received 2-1 at Clifton Robinsons for the second time this season after slipping up 1-0 at residence to Surbiton the week earlier than. Beeston are nonetheless ready for his or her first objective in opposition to Wimbledon after shedding 1-0 at Nottingham Hockey Centre in October 2020.
Within the Backside 5, it’s Swansea’s flip to have the primary of two bye weeks. Holcombe face the College of Birmingham, needing a win if they’re going to maintain Buckingham, at the moment within the relegation zone, at bay as Holcombe maintain a 3 level lead, having performed a sport extra. Birmingham are but to win at Holcombe Park in seven visits, having drawn on their first and final journey and contrived to lose 3-1 for 5 successive seasons between 2015-16 and 2019-20. The sport in Part 1 ended 2-2 again in September.
Buckingham will wish to construct on final week’s 2-0 win at Holcombe as they go to Loughborough College students, who joined the College of Birmingham on 13 factors after a 1-0 win at Swansea. The Welsh membership will probably be trying on anxiously because the video games begin to run out of their battle to keep away from relegation again to Division One. Loughborough have received each residence encounters of their first two seasons again within the Premier after being promoted and a 3rd residence win in a row would increase their hopes of staying up.
