Its been a busy few weeks for most hockey sides as they try and fit in rearranged games in the slip week or on a Sunday in order to complete their league fixtures before the end of the season schedule for mid-March. The Ladies 2s have had to be more creative and agreed to play away at Selby on a Tuesday evening when Selby normally train at their pitch. The first attempt a few weeks ago was scuppered Read more…
L-R: Henry, Sam, Adam, Fin, Seb, Patrick, Ben, Tom, Simon, Dan, Kuoros, Charlie…. and Sholto Adel boys’ u16 squad held on to their place in level 3 of the Yorkshire League, after a tough final round of group matches on Sunday. They now progress to the play-offs in April, with the chance to finish as high as 9th in Yorkshire. This is a great achievement for an age group where we didn’t even have Read more…
A cold morning at Fortress Adel meant that the Ladies 1s patiently waited for the pitch inspection to take place, and were relieved to hear that the big game against Didsbury Greys would go ahead. After a motivational team talk from Coach Paul Lewis the team were ready to go, and knew that winning was the only option. The warm up saw the Adel sniper out nice and early with Hannah stacking it (at least Read more…
With the freezing Russian winds threatening a frozen pitch, it was a joy to discover that the pitch was ready for the Mens 1s to take on Sheffield Bankers. 12pm arrived and a large collection of the squad gathered by the pitch to support the Ladies 1s and after they secured 3 points, we knew we had to do the same. Now memory of all the goals is very hazy because there were 14 in Read more…
Another great weekend of hockey for Leeds Adel this Saturday with both our first teams taking convincing wins against their opponents, followed by the Ladies 5s and then Mighty phwoars rounding off the day with a 16:30 pushback against Halifax 4s. The reverse of this fixture was played on remembrance Sunday and was a very tense affair that saw us go 0-1 down, then 3-1 up, then 3-4 down, but snatched the 3 points 5-4 Read more…
Not sure which team’s victory (or even victories in some cases) are worthy of the lead paragraph after this weekend with the ladies 1s vital win at home giving them some hope of rising away from the relegation zone, the ladies 2s treble over 5 days securing the league title, the mens 1s maintaining their 100% record scoring 14 goals in the process or the mens 2s dramatic late win away at title rivals Hallam 4s. Oh, Read more…
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