Hurst’s U-16’s Hockey squad crowned West Sussex Champions

Confident Hurst performance drives victory in West Sussex final

 

After four fine matches in freezing conditions on Tuesday, 19^th January, Hurstpierpoint College’s U16 Hockey squad emerged as clear winners to take the West Sussex Championship.

Five schools qualified to reach the tournament which was hosted by Hurstpierpoint College, the matches all taking place on the school’s superb Astroturf.

Hurst dominated play in its first match against Lancing College gaining half a dozen chances to score, succeeding in two and holding their opponents well in check to come away with a 2-0 victory.

Their next match against Chichester High School was fast paced with both sides moving the ball well and whilst Hurst created several opportunities to score, they failed to find the net, resulting in a 0-0 draw.

This result clearly focussed the players’ minds and they let no chances go to waste when challenging Seaford College, producing a final score of 4-0. Subsequently in their final match against Bishop Luffa School, they produced an exhibition standard game which they won 5-0.

Chris Wilson, Hurst’s Head of Boy’s Hockey, commented after the match that he was “enormously proud of the way our boys worked so closely together as a team ”.  “The quality of their play” continued Mr Wilson “continued to improve throughout the tournament and they really got into their stride for the last two matches”.

“We are” he said “greatly looking forward to our Sussex Cup match in early February against the team that emerges triumphant from the East Sussex Championships and, of course, to the South East Regional Championships - in which, for the first time, both East and West Sussex Champions will compete - at Kingston Grammar School on the 9th March.

Hurst’s team (left to right in above photograph) were:

Back row, left to right:
Giles Orchard, Tim Griffiths (Captain), James Newland, Joe Martin, Ben Blundell, James Mitchell,  Stefan Leth, Warwick Meyler.
Front row left to right:
Chris Wilson (Master-in-Charge), Ken Tsang, Edward Zeidler, Dominic Mayes (goal), Charles Atkinson, Jacob Orgill.