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Not the resounding result Reading were looking for this weekend as a young and sprightly Canterbury side forced them to share points in front of a home crowd at Sonning Lane on Saturday.
A bad day at the office this weekend for Reading who were again lacking in inspiration as they took on Canterbury at [...]

Reading 1a’s this week again faced the team immediately behind them in the league, as Havant had leapfrogged Southampton into third place, with Reading still sitting in second.
Arctic conditions had to be endured a little longer than expected as confusion with the umpires saw them arriving at Sonning Lane when the game was in [...]

In a rematch of last years Quarter Final Reading 1a’s faced Chelmsford 2’s on Sunday the England Hockey 2XI Cup. Last time Reading had ran out 1-0 winners on a snowy Chelmsford pitch, this time they looked to repeat the win as they welcomed Chelmsford to Sonning Lane.
With numbers depleted due to injury and [...]

A comfortable if uninspiring win for Reading against bottom of the table Trojans, which puts them 2 points clear of 3rd placed Slough who only managed a draw in the womens EHL premier division this weekend.
On a chilly February afternoon in Hampshire, it wasn’t a game to spend standing still, yet Trojans were determined to play their [...]

Wessex SuperVets Fixtures Alliance.
The Vets had a comfortable 5:1 win against Havant on 13th February, but that didn’t tell the whole story!
It was bitterly cold and this must have effected the hockey, for for much of the game, it was a competition as to which side could give the ball away to the opposition as [...]

Reading ladies opened the second half of the season with a disappointing 4-1 loss to top-of-the-league and newly crowned indoor champions Leicester on a beautifully sunny day at Sonning Lane.
Leicester opened the match with a confidence befitting their league position and got onto the scoreboard after just 12 minutes, with Chloe Rogers’ trademark flick hitting [...]

Reading Vets kept their third position in their league thanks to a comfortable win against Polytechnic at Redaing University on 6th February.
They were one up after 38 seconds thanks to an excellent through ball by Fergus Stapleton to Richard Higginson who gave the goalkeeper no chance. A second followed eight minutes later, thanks to another [...]

Reading Vets were at Winchester on 30th Januaury & had a bit of a shock! They were two goals down within ten minutes, both from open play. It must have been the sun shinning for the first game for some time or something! Fortunately the team settled down and by half time thanks to a flick by [...]

Reading 1a’s returned to South league action on Saturday with a home tie against Hampstead & Westminster.
An early slot at The Lane combined with some chilly overnight temperatures meant that the pitch was still frosty at the meet time. A blast of water and some quick footwork in the warmup cleared the worst of the [...]

Reading 1a’s travelled away to Southampton on Saturday aiming to stay ahead of a team that were just 1 place below them in the league and who had only lost 2 games all season, one of these to Reading.
With a sandy sticky pitch and Reading not really switched on the 1a’s found themselves on [...]