Divine intervention restores orange pride

  The Men’s 5th team went down 4-1 to Chapeltown 3s in their last game of the season.   Chap deserved  the win, although the score is slightly flattering – Adel dominated play in the second half and won a succession of short corners. But the damage had already been done in the first period, and the lack of a practised routine meant the odds of scoring from a short corner were slim, especially in the Read more

AWMA Annual Quiz night – Saturday May 12th

The annual AWMA quiz night has conveniently been arranged for the evening after the hockey section end of season dinner so what better way to cure your hangovers, meet up with people to find out what you had forgotten from the night before and get along to test if your brain cells are still functioning well enough to remember various facts without the help of Google or Alexa….. Sam Jackson has kindly agreed to organise Read more

Happy families…

At last the weather decided to play fair but it was clear the Adel reputation had spread around the county and three of our opponents conceded their games earlier in the week.  Looking at the league results on the YHA website, it appears there were around a dozen teams unable to raise a side whilst at Adel our ladies 3s and 5s seemed to have a squad the size of an American football team – we Read more

Champions!

The mighty phowars were praying to mother nature to keep the snow off till at least after 13:00 when they were due to play Slazengers which if we won would make us champions and gain a second promotion in two seasons. After some persistence from both teams, Slazengers called to say the game could go ahead. Before a single hockey ball was touched there were a few people who could have easily got themselves DOTD. Read more

Snow, snow, more snow and a little bit of hockey

Yet another snowy start to a Saturday morning meant that the Ladies 1s waited to hear news from Harrogate. With most people still in bed or lounging about the ladies were surprised to here that the Harrogate pitch was playable and the game was on. Relieved to not have another postponed game the ladies set off. Upon arrival the conditions seemed to deteriorate pretty quickly with the warm up alone being a cold snowy affair. Read more

Away wins bring home more silverware for Adel

Once again the wintry conditions decided to intervene and spoil hockey proceedings at the weekend.  The 8.30 am pitch inspection on Saturday morning saw the astro covered in light snow and the prospects of play looked very slim.  Phil Bayford had already made his own mind up and was still enjoying a Saturday morning lie in.  With Harrogate the away team at 10.30 due to play the ladies 2s and Scarborough v the ladies 4s at Read more