Romsey U12 Boy’s won an even but hard-fought match at home to Southampton last Sunday.
With eleven players and no substitutes, all the boys worked hard to maintain the pace right through the game.
With Joe in goal, a defence of Tom, Toby F and Callumbehind a midfield of Lewis, Toby S, Henry A and Milo. Upfront Romsey had Henry T with Rupert and Rowanplaying wide.
The first period was very evenly matched with neither team making a breakthrough, the second period started with Romsey playing a wider game and getting more pressure on the Southampton goal. Milo made a break from the right of midfield into the dee, his pass found Henry T whose shot was too good for the Southampton keeper.
There then followed a period of pressure from Romsey but the Southampton goalie keeping them in the match as Romsey had plenty of shots on goal. At the other end with Romsey defending high up the pitch they almost suffered a goal against the run of play when Southampton broke forward with two players against the Romsey goalie, Joe, who came off his line early and saved the shot from the striker and cleared the ball, the second period finished with Romsey just ahead one nil up.
Romsey started the third period well, with plenty of runs from midfield and shots on goal, but again the Southampton Goalie kept them in the game. As the match drew to a conclusion Southampton looked to have earnt a draw with a shot past the Romsey goalie, but a diving outstretched Tom just managed to keep the ball out to help keep a clean sheet for Romsey.
AGM 2019
This year’s Romsey Hockey Club AGM will be at 7:30pm at the Phoenix on Monday 29th April.
End of Season Celebrations 2019
Please sign up on Teamo for the End of Season Do. We have a cut off of 8th April unless there are extenuating circumstances. The event fee is £40 per person. This includes a photographer, live band, drink on arrival and 3 course dinner – fantastic value for money. Dress is black tie. Awards will be presented.
Cast Your Votes For End of Season Awards 2019
U10 Girls In2Hockey
Our u10 girls travelled to Haslemere for the Hampshire round of the In2Hockey competition yesterday.
They had a great day with a mix of results and finished well placed in their group but missed out on a playoff place.
Minis enjoy the sunshine
Last training session of the season so the minis enjoyed some fun and games in the sunshine this morning 😀
U10s In2Hockey
Good luck to our future stars in the Hampshire In2Hockey Championship today in Haslemere👍
Full report and photos later😀
M4s sign off in style
Romsey managed to earn all three points in this fun end of season clash, having gifted Hamble their only point of the season in the away fixture back in December.
Hamble started brightly, and were reliant on a solid back four performance, with Simeon Field again showing how far he has developed in his second season, Duncan Sanders and Lukasz Suleja solid at the back and James Tower, playing his usual game of defence and attack at left back, before he departs for Canada for a year.
Once Romsey did get the ball, an attack with Phil Orak and Dave Procter won a penalty corner, Procter pushed the ball out to Colin Harwood who slipped it to Jon Marsh to put Romsey 1 0 up.
It was a tight game for the rest of the half, Andy Moger playing a pivotal role in his last match before moving to Bristol.
Bryn Wathen has to make two good saves, to keep Hamble out and Barry Hatch was unlucky when Harwood intercepted a 16 yard ball and squared it to the forward, who had his shot blocked.
Romsey almost doubled their lead in the second half when after three shots were blocked by sticks on the line, eventually a foot saw a penalty flick awarded. Harwood stepped up aiming for the left post and accurately hit it face on to see the ball rebound to his feet.
Romsey finally doubled their lead in the second half after Dan Blackman and Field combined to play the ball to Marsh who powerfully struck the ball towards the circle and Matt Duke to slide it in for 2 0.
As Romsey thought they were hockey players by coolly playing it around at the back, Hamble intercepted eventually and then Wathen had no chance with a dunce strike just under the bar for 2-1. He then pulled a fine save, deflecting another high shot on to the bar and over.
Romsey wrapped up the points when Sean Rawles combined with Will Payne and Ben Harris to allow Barry Hatch to shoot the ball in for 3 1 and 3 points in the final game of the season, which saw Romsey4 finish 4th of eight, with 25 points.
8 points behind IOW2 who were crowned champions, and who dropped only 9 points all season, their only defeat being at the hands of Romsey.
U12 Girls beat New Forest
The u12 girls played brilliantly yesterday morning and secured a 6-2 win against New Forest.
The whole team worked well together. Determined in defence, great passing in possession and clinical in front of goal.
U10 Boys show promise at Trojans
Sunday 10th March 2019 at Trojans Hockey Club, Southampton
Time for another mini tournament for the U10 and this time the coaches, Natalie and Cat decided to split our youngsters into a boys’ and a girls’ team to practice their team play for the up and coming IN2 Hockey. The teams shared one goalie kit so for half of the matches Romsey boys had Benji in place as a fully kitted out goalie doing his first hands on saves. In the team “Boys” were also Charlie, Oscar, Jake, Dylan, Hugo, Joe and Ben all practising their play in different positions of the pitch.
Romsey boys started their first match against an alert Trojan 4. Trojans were much more coordinated and quicker in their passing, making the ball travel fast over to their half of the pitch. With a constant pressure, Trojans scored two goals despite Jake and Joe’s hard work in defence.
Having had a “wake up” from Trojans in the first game, Romsey were much more alert in the second game against Southampton. Romsey took control of the game from the start and the first goal was a team effort and within minutes Oscar scored the 2nd goal and had another shot in goal but from outside the D. Southampton only had a one proper attempt to score which was beautifully saved by Benji and then defenders Jake and Hugo passed the ball up to midfielder Charlie and Oscar. Charlie played a great shot to Joe who scored the 3rd goal and shortly after Charlie came back with another “near goal”, finishing the match with a much happier 3-0 to Romsey.
Andover were up next and that was a very even match with play over the full pitch. Dylan scored the first goal after great play and passes from Jake and Charlie. Oscar showed off his goalie skills by throwing himself on the ball, avoiding Southampton to get a goal and the match ended 1-0.
From the fourth game onwards, Romsey were unbeatable and were seeing the benefits of passing the ball to each other to get to score goals. New Forest worked hard but Romsey were quicker. Ben shot a straight corner, passing it across the goal and then Oscar, Dylan and Ben had a lovely series of passes in between them which ended with Ben scoring the first goal. A Quick play out and Joe attacked the goal with a 2nd shot and Oscar following on with the 3rd goal. Before the match ended Joe had put in another two goals, finishing the game with a strong 5-0 to Romsey.
In the fifth game the goalie kit was handed over to the girls and Romsey boys carried on without a designated goalie. Jake was now playing midfield and dribbled single handed up to score the first game. Oscar and Jake were shooting into the goal from a long corner but that goal was disallowed. Jake scored the 2nd goal with a great pass from Ben. Oscar and Dylan had another attempt to score which was nicely saved by Bournemouth goalie. Joe played strongly in attack and scored two lovely goals, ending the game an amazing 4-0 to Romsey.
In the sixth game against Salisbury, Romsey had the majority of the play and finished it with another strong 4-0. Dylan scored the first, Jake the 2nd, Joe the 3rd and finally Oscar the 4thgoal.
The last game of the day was against Trojans 2 and Romsey kept their strong play by putting in five goals compared to Trojans one. Joe score the first goal and then, finally, Charlie scored two goals himself, followed by Jake and Dylan scoring one goal each.
Romsey boys entertained us all with fast and fun games with an amazing 22 goals scored. The more the boys passed to each other the better they played. Well done all boys for fantastic play on a windy day.