Newbury and Thatcham Hockey Club brought a young disciplined and an extremely enthusiastic team with a strong endeavour to play hockey in the correct manner. They controlled the tempo and possession with their senior players distributing play efficiently. Thus, the first half score greatly flattered Stoke Green HC with a score of two zero. The first of these arrived from a short corner routine despatched effectively by Karan K, followed with a second goal in the half from a rare but sleek passing move via Jitpal to Veer to a calmly finish to the roof of the net by Surjeet B.

Stoke Green half time strong discussions entailed the desire to retain ball possession, ensure passes were distributed to stick and basically play to the strengths of the team.

The second half, thus commenced well for Stoke Green as they finally came into the game with controlled possession and opened the scoring flood gates with two quick fire goals by Aman, followed by a sleek finish by the ever-impressive Jitpal and then by the hard-working young debutant Yash.

NTHC pulled a very well-deserved goal back when a back pass was intercepted and driven in by a young NTCH player into an empty net as SG had pulled their goalkeeper (Sadara) to play outfield.

However, SGHC kept pressing and there was further action in the last periods in the game when Jassi K first hit the post with a strong cross hit and then barley two minutes later made sure he was on the score sheet with a neat finish to leave the final score as seven goals to one.

Three Points went to Stoke Green who remain top of the league, but they had high admirations for their opposition team. 

Line Up

Sadara (Goalkeeper) /  Romy /  Apinder / Jassi K /  Karan K /  Veer P (Captain) /  Serjeet./ Jassi B / Jitpal / Hanish / Papu

Sub: Aman / Jasal /  Yash

Scoring summary

Karan K / Surjeet / Aman (2) / Jitpal / Yash /Jassi K