Archive for October, 2007

Reading fell to their first defeat in over a year on Saturday, thanks to a brace from Jane Sixsmith, in a pulsating contest at Sonning Lane. Reading started well again and had Sutton coldfield on the back foot for the first 15 minutes. Player of the match Erin Ruxton had a scintillating start, despite playing [...]

If you thought fitness and agility was tough, spare a thought for Jon Cooke, who has been coaching the Colts at Reading for the past five years. He is running the New York Marathon in November, his first race at this distance. He is also raising money for charity at the same time and the [...]

The U12 selections are available now. The rest of the teams will follow shortly. U12A and U12B Please see the spreadsheet below for the U12A and U12B teams. U12A tournament is at Altwood School, Maidenhead. Please report to your team manager no later than 09.15am. U12B tournament is at Reading Hockey Club. Please report to [...]

Sunday’s game saw Reading 1a’s face Chelmsford in the first round of the cup. Aware that this was going to be a tough game and legs would be slightly tired from the day before, Reading went all out in their efforts to secure a win. The first half, just like yesterday’s game, saw many chances [...]

After a very controversial umpiring decision in our first league game resulted in a 1-0 loss to Epsom, we were determined not to continue the season as it had begun. The game started very positively and we put a lot of pressure on Hampstead. There were opportunities from both teams to be the first on [...]

Courtesy of OJ… Whooo what a weekend!!! The ladies 1s beat Durham Uni 6-0 on the saturday to go top of the league by 2 points! The ladies 2a’s beat Bicester 3-2! And the ladies 3A’s beat Marlow 5-1! In the Men, the 2A’s were the only side to win on the saturday beating Teddington [...]

After their demolition of University of Durham Reading took their scoring form into their cup game on the Sunday. Missing Erin Ruxton, Jenna Woolven, Becy Dru and captain Alice Margerison players due to regional commitments, Reading included a handful of players from the 1As, Holly Raby, Nicola West and Amy Sanders, who slotted into the [...]

Coach Rhys Joyce made it clear in his pre-match talk this week that Reading needed to start better than they had done against Birmingham the previous week and Reading responded with a focused warm up and a powerful first half performance that effectively sealed the result by half time. In fact Reading were four goals [...]

Reading travelled to Birmingham to face the other side in EHL Division 1 who had won 6-1 in the first round. The students are a powerful and well organised side, and they caused Reading problems in the first half with their movement and passing. An under par Reading made another slow start, and hampered their [...]