Holcombe were knocked off the top of the Investec Women’s Hockey League Premier Division after being defeated 1-0 at home to East Grinstead.
Zoe Burrell scored the only goal of the game, converting a penalty corner on the stroke of half time to move the visitors above Holcombe and into second in the table.
The new league leaders are Surbiton, after they picked up all three points with a 3-0 win at Canterbury.
Jo Hunter and Hannah Martin scored before the interval, with Rebecca Middleton adding a third seven minutes from time.
Elsewhere, The University of Birmingham won 2-1 at Clifton Robinsons to leapfrog them in the table.
Erica Sanders scored her eighth of the season after three minutes, and despite a Jess Bloom equaliser, Amy Costello scored the winner just before the break.
Slough picked up their first win of the season in a closely fought 4-3 win at Bowdon Hightown.
Mel Bell hit a brace, with Philipa Newton and Amy Sheehan also on target for the visitors. Bowdon had twice equalised through Kayleigh Humphreys and Tara Melvin, and a late strike from Lily Wolstenholme proved to be a consolation.
Leicester ran out 3-0 winners at bottom side Reading. Two goals in two first half minutes from Katie Long and Madeleine Newlyn were added to by Liz George, to give the visitors all three points.
Investec Women’s Conference East
Sevenoaks made it five wins from five to stay top of the Investec Conference East, with a 6-1 win at Chelmsford.
Jess Denniff and Katy Warrington both scored two, with Maddie Thompson and Cathy Gilliat-Smith also on target.
Nicola Lloyd converted a penalty corner to keep Wimbledon second after a 1-0 win at home to Cambridge City.
Harleston Magpies ran out 5-3 winners over Southgate, with Lucy Whiting scoring two goals in two minutes. The Conference’s leading scorer Alex Fenwick scored a hat-trick for the visitors.
Fleur Horner scored a hat trick and Helen Cathcart a brace as Hampstead and Westminster won 7-3 at Northampton Saints.
Two from Amie Hone helped St Albans to a 4-0 win at West Herts, the only side still to register a point this season.
Investec Women’s Conference North
Beeston had to settle for a 1-1 draw in the Investec Conference North at the University of Durham.
Ellie Rawnsley cancelled out Eloise Stenner’s opener, as both sides preserved their unbeaten starts to the season, Beeston stayed top.
Brooklands Poynton moved second with a comfortable 5-0 win at Timperley, with Aine Curran, Annie Mills, Caroline Hulme and Claire Wallace all scoring before the break.
Georgia Byas scored in the last minute to give Wakefield a 1-0 at home to Belper, denying the visitors their first point of the season.
Elsewhere, Jo Ellis scored twice to give Ben Rhydding a 2-1 win at Sutton Coldfield and Loughborough Students won 1-0 at Liverpool Sefton.
Investec Women’s Conference West
Stourport moved top of the Investec Conference West, as they emphatically broke Trojans 100 percent record this season with a 7-0 home victory.
Sarah Parkinson-Mills scored a hat trick with Hannah Coulson, Claire Pearson, Lora Symonds and Cerys Preston were all on target to ensure the hosts remain the only unbeaten side in the conference.
That came after previous leaders Olton and West Warwicks went down to their first defeat of the season, a 3-0 loss at Isca.
Sophie Jefferson and Meg Crowson scored inside ten minutes, with Vicki Gill adding a third to claim an impressive victory for the hosts.
Alex Naughalty and Storm Sunderland both scored twice to help Buckingham to a 6-1 win at home to Exe.
Meanwhile, two goals in the last seven minutes gave Swansea City a 2-1 win at home to Gloucester City, and Oxford Hawks claimed their first points of the campaign with a 3-1 win over Bristol Firebrands.
Investec Women’s Hockey League (Saturday, October 15, 2016):
Investec Women’s Premier Division: Bowdon 3, Slough 4; Canterbury 0, Surbiton 3; Clifton Robinsons 1, University of Birmingham 2; Reading 0, Leicester 3; Holcombe 0, East Grinstead 1.
Investec Women’s Conference East: Chelmsford 1, Sevenoaks 6; Harleston Magpies 5, Southgate 3; Northampton Saints 3, Hampstead and Westminster 7; West Herts 0, St. Albans 4; Wimbledon 1, Cambridge City 0.
Investec Women’s Conference North: Liverpool Sefton 0, Loughborough Students 1; Sutton Coldfield 1, Ben Rhydding 2; Timperley 0, Brooklands Poynton 5; University of Durham 1, Beeston 1; Wakefield 1, Belper 0.
Investec Women’s Conference West: Buckingham 6, Exe 1; Isca 3, Olton & West Warwicks 0; Oxford Hawks 3, Bristol Firebrands 1; Stourport 7, Trojans 0; Swansea City 2, Gloucester City 1.
| Women’s Premier Division |
| Bowdon Hightown | (2) | 3 | – | 4 | (3) | Slough | ||||
| Kayleigh Humphreys 12 – PC Tara Melvin 17 – F Lily Wolstenholme 65 – PC |
Melissa Ball 9 13 – PC F Philipa Newton 24 – PC Amy Sheehan 45 – F |
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| Clifton Robinsons | (1) | 1 | – | 2 | (2) | University of Birmingham | ||||
| Jessica Bloom 23 – F | Erica Sanders 3 – F Amy Costello 35 – PC |
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| Reading | (0) | 0 | – | 3 | (2) | Leicester | ||||
| Katie Long 22 – F Madeleine Newlyn 23 – F Liz George 69 – F |
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| Canterbury | (0) | 0 | – | 3 | (2) | Surbiton | ||||
| Jo Hunter 19 – PC Hannah Martin 22 – F Rebecca Middleton 63 – PC |
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| Holcombe | (0) | 0 | – | 1 | (1) | East Grinstead | ||||
| Zoe Burrell 35 – PC | ||||||||||
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Surbiton | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 11 |
| 2 | East Grinstead | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 11 |
| 3 | Holcombe | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 7 | 10 |
| 4 | University of Birmingham | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 9 |
| 5 | Clifton Robinsons | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 | Leicester | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 7 | Canterbury | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 7 |
| 8 | Slough | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 4 |
| 9 | Bowdon Hightown | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 15 | -8 | 3 |
| 10 | Reading | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 18 | -13 | 0 |
| Women’s Conference East |
| Harleston Magpies | (1) | 5 | – | 3 | (1) | Southgate | ||||
| Maria Andrews 32 – F Victoria Findlay 44 – F Lucy Whiting 58 59 – PC PC Debbie Francis 65 – PC |
Alexandra Fenwick 12 38 69 – PC F PC | |||||||||
| Northampton Saints | (2) | 3 | – | 7 | (5) | Hampstead and Westminster | ||||
| Camilla Denton 22 – F Chloe Cozens 30 – PC Danielle Hagan 66 – F |
Fleur Horner 5 10 51 – PC PC PC Michelle Borren 13 – F Isabel Wray 15 – F Helen Cathcart 35 44 – PC F |
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| West Herts | (0) | 0 | – | 4 | (2) | St. Albans | ||||
| Adele Sammons 28 – F Amie Hone 34 36 – PC PS Bethan Davies 50 – F |
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| Chelmsford | (0) | 1 | – | 6 | (3) | Sevenoaks | ||||
| Molly Redgrove 68 – PC | Jess Denniff 1 18 – F F Maddie Thompson 16 – F Katy Warrington 37 56 – F F Cathy Gilliat-Smith 61 – F |
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| Wimbledon | (0) | 1 | – | 0 | (0) | Cambridge City | ||||
| Nicola Lloyd 39 – PC | ||||||||||
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Sevenoaks | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 17 | 15 |
| 2 | Wimbledon | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 12 |
| 3 | Harleston Magpies | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
| 4 | Hampstead and Westminster | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 10 |
| 5 | Cambridge City | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Southgate | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 15 | -1 | 5 |
| 7 | St. Albans | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | -2 | 5 |
| 8 | Chelmsford | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 15 | -5 | 5 |
| 9 | Northampton Saints | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 20 | -16 | 1 |
| 10 | West Herts | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 29 | -19 | 0 |
| Women’s Conference North |
| Timperley | (0) | 0 | – | 5 | (4) | Brooklands Poynton | ||||
| Áine Curran 2 – F Annie Mills 6 – F Caroline Hulme 24 – PC Claire Wallace 26 – F Tilly Dyos-Szolkowska 60 – F |
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| Wakefield | (0) | 1 | – | 0 | (0) | Belper | ||||
| Georgia Byas 70 – F | ||||||||||
| University of Durham | (1) | 1 | – | 1 | (1) | Beeston | ||||
| Ellie Rawnsley 31 – PC | Eloise Stenner 13 – PC | |||||||||
| Sutton Coldfield | (0) | 1 | – | 2 | (1) | Ben Rhydding | ||||
| Vicky Woolford 43 – PC | Jo Ellis 19 38 – F PC | |||||||||
| Liverpool Sefton | (0) | 0 | – | 1 | (0) | Loughborough Students | ||||
| Annabel Sams 65 – PC | ||||||||||
| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Beeston | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 12 | 13 |
| 2 | Brooklands Poynton | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 12 |
| 3 | University of Durham | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
| 4 | Wakefield | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | -1 | 9 |
| 5 | Loughborough Students | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -2 | 9 |
| 6 | Ben Rhydding | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Liverpool Sefton | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 5 |
| 8 | Timperley | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 17 | -11 | 4 |
| 9 | Sutton Coldfield | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -4 | 3 |
| 10 | Belper | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 12 | -10 | 0 |
| Women’s Conference West |
| Oxford Hawks | (1) | 3 | – | 1 | (1) | Bristol Firebrands | ||||
| Caro Harris 33 – PC Bex Oakes 43 – PC Abi Flory 57 – F |
Amy Moss 10 – PC | |||||||||
| Swansea City | (0) | 2 | – | 1 | (0) | Gloucester City | ||||
| Joanne Westwood 63 – PC Natasha Marke 67 – F |
Zoe Burford 61 – F | |||||||||
| Buckingham | (4) | 6 | – | 1 | (1) | Exe | ||||
| Alexandra Naughalty 19 59 – F PC Storm Sunderland 20 25 – F PC Abbie Brant 27 – F Kitty Higgins 64 – F |
Emma Ross 35 – PC | |||||||||
| Isca University | (2) | 3 | – | 0 | (0) | Olton & West Warwicks | ||||
| Sophie Jefferson 4 – F Megan Crowson 9 – PC Vicki Gill 69 – PC |
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| Stourport | (2) | 7 | – | 0 | (0) | Trojans | ||||
| Hannah Corcoran 17 – PC Claire Pearson 35 – F Sarah Parkinson-Mills 41 50 70 – F F F Lora Symonds 57 – F Cerys Preston 63 – F |
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| P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | ||
| 1 | Stourport | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 4 | 16 | 13 |
| 2 | Olton & West Warwicks | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 3 | Trojans | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 |
| 4 | Buckingham | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 10 |
| 5 | Swansea City | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | Gloucester City | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 10 | -1 | 6 |
| 7 | Isca University | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 16 | -8 | 6 |
| 8 | Oxford Hawks | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -6 | 3 |
| 9 | Exe | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 18 | -12 | 3 |
| 10 | Bristol Firebrands | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 14 | -11 | 0 |
Report courtesy of England Hockey via Snowdon Sports
