COLTS

30/11/09 Beeston were 1 of only 3 clubs to still have all 4 teams left in the EH Junior  Cups at the Last 16 stage! This is the second year that we have reached this level of consistency. The next round will be played on February 14th and Beeston have drawn the following teams:
U18 Boys v Ben Rhydding at home
U18 Girls v Wakefield away
U16 Boys v Ludlow away
U16 Girls v Alderley edge at home
29/11/09 Despite heavy rain on Sunday morning all 4 EH Cup ties were played at Highfields . The U18 Boys won convincingly 13-0 against Northampton; the U16 Girls beat Belper 1-0 in a match that they dominated more than the score suggests; the U16 Boys beat City of Peterborough  5-2 having stormed to a 5-0 lead with an impressive attacking start; the U18 Girls beat Lichfield 4-0  with a sound performance. Longer report to follow.

29/11/09 The U14 club competition matches were diverted to Trent College. Illness took its toll on all the squads and unfortunately West Bridgford were unable to field a complete team so conceded their fixtures with Belper and Beeston. Their matches were changed to friendly fixtures with Beeston lending them players. Belper beat Melton who were also under strenghth fielding only 8 players and no GK to finish top of the League. Beeston finished 3rd.
20/11/09 England Hockey announced the National Age Group Squads (NAGS) today. Congratulations to David Overton(U18B), Shona McCallin(U18G), Elice McNair(U16G), Kim Leiper(U16G) and Maddie Sharpe(U16G) who have all been selected.
18/11/09 The BeestonGold v Newark match in the girls’ U15 league was postponed tonight.
16/11/09 Beeston came out of the R3 draw for the EH Junior Club Cups with 4 home ties! The draw was as follows: U18B v Northants, U18G v Lichfield, U16B v Peterbro and U16G v Belper. Beeston are 1 of only 6 clubs that still have all 4 of their junior teams in the cups. The ties will be played on November 29th from 11am onwards. Bee there 4 the Bees!
15/11/09 We sent 3 mini hockey teams to Lichfield today with many of the younger players taking part in a match for the first time. The U12 girls’ team lost to an U12 mixed Lichfield team; the U10 girls beat Lichfield girls U10s and the U8 mixed team drew 0-0 with Lichfield U8s despite neither team fielding a goalkeeper!
15/11/09 In the NoDe Mini (U11B/U12G) matches today Beeston fielded a boys’ team of 8 and 9 year olds. The young Bees played well beating Boots and Ashfield easily before they began to tire and lost to an older mixed West Bridgford team.
15/11/09 In R2 of the EH Junior Club Cups today Beeston U16 and U18 boys won easily away at Leicester and North Notts respectively. However the day belonged to the U16 girls who won 16.0 away at Matlock! The U18 girls had been given a walkover Cannock on Thursday.
11/11/09 In the U15 League tonight BeestonGold boys beat West Bridgford/M 4-1 and BeestonBees boys lost narrowly 1-2 to Ashfield.
04/11/09 In the U15 League tonight BeestonBees girls beat WB/Monarchs 3-0. The BeestonGold girls match v SBU was postponed.
03/11/09 Following their performances in the EH Futures Cup David Overton(U18B), Shona McCallin(U18G), Elice McNair(U16G), Kim Leiper(U16G) and Maddie Sharpe(U16G) have all been given England assessments. Katie Hopkisson has also been given an England assessment after her performance at the U15 HiPAC.
01/11/09 The U14 girls maintained their form in the new EH Club competition by beating Matlock 2-0 and SBU 5-0 in the second Sunday of matches. This qualifies them for the North Regional Finals on April 11th. The squad of Izzie S, Ellie H, Katie H, Dani P, Hayley C, Liv H, Imogen H, Sophia L, Erica S, Lauren W, Orla B, Fran T, Georgia M, Lily Kitts and Camilla C were coached and managed by Kate Crosby and James Hopkisson. The young U14 boys’ team faired less well in their first Sunday of matches losing 0-3 to Belper in a closer match than the score suggests and then 0-3 to a strong older Melton team. This means that the boys cannot progress to the regional finals but as most of them will qualify to play again next year this must be seen as a development season. The squad of Emil L, Jack S, Ollie A, Ian C, Aaron H, Ben N, Elliott Wr, James B, Adam F, Tom G, Yiannos K, Ed S, Harry S, Matt Wr and Cellan G were coached by Martin Keeling and Nick Parr umpired.
30/10/09 An U11 boys’ team took part in friendly matches at Boots HC. The young Bees were in superb form and played some lovely passing hockey. They beat West Bridgford 6-0, Nottingham 3-0 and Boots 9-0.  Every player scored except martin Davies who was in superb form in the Beeston goal. The squad of Martin D, Gaz G (3g), Yaz K (5g), Henry E (1g), Andrew L (2g), Matt F (1g), Connall D (4g), Freddie H (1g) and Henry C (1g) were coached by Martin Keeling with Mike Croft umpiring.
29/10/09-01/11/09 The EH Futures Cup was played at Cannock this weekend. Shona McCallin (Mercia Lynx U18G) and Sam Steel & Jack Simkins (Mercia Lynx U16B) were in victorious teams; Ciara Bamford,
Kim Leiper, Elice McNair and Maddie Sharpe (Mercia Lynx U16G) were runners up; and Liam Adams, David Overton, Mark Smallwood and Ian Welch (Mercia Lynx U18B) finished a disappointing 4th.
25/10/09 Beeston Girls provided the opposition for the Mercia Lynx U16 girls team at Highfields today as part of the preparation for the EH Futures Cup next weekend. Beeston narrowly lost 2-3.
22/10/09 Beeston U16 girls played Cartouche today and drew 4-4. The Dutch touring team beat Belper HC 14-2.   
18/10/09 In today’s NoDe league mini fixtures at Ashfield a Beeston U11 team beat South Nottm 6-0, Boots 4-0 and Ashfield 2-0. The team of martin D, Matt F, Gaz G, Yaz K, Andrew L, Connall D, Henry E and Freddie H all played very well. Gaz and Andrew were top scorers with 4 each. Clive Morris coached the team.
18/10/09 In the first fixtures of the new U14 club Competition Beeston U14 Girls beat Belper 4-0 the goals were scored by Imogen H, Fran T and L Kitts but the whole squad played well. The squad of Izzie S, Gina L, Lauren W, Dani P, Ellie H, Liv H, Katie H, Hayley C, Imogen H, Sophia L, Georgia M, Orla B, Lily K and Fran T were coached and managed by Kate Crosby and James Hopkisson. Neil Stevens kindly travelled as the umpire. The rest of the group results were Belper 2 SBU 0 & Matlock 1 SBU 0. See Match Report.   
14/10/09 The 2 Beeston boys’ teams met in the U15 Notts League tonight. The older more experienced Gold team best the Bees 6-0 with goals from Ashley Britton 3, Alex Smith, Simon Webster and Tom Mayfield.

10-11/10/09 12 Beeston Juniors are taking part in the U15 and U17 HiPACs (High Performance Assessment Camps) this weekend. Congratulations to Yasmin Haywood (GK), Wiz Mumby, Madi Smith, Martha Baker, Katie Hopkisson, Marcus Hooper, Ben Morris, Greg Nolan, Matt Parker, Leo Watton, Chris Proctor and Will Taylor

08/10/09 Derwent Boys U14s have withdrawn from the EH Club Competition today which may result in some alterations to the fixtures on Nov 1st and 29th (see news 25/09/09).
06/10/09 Beeston teams were drawn away in all 4 R2 matches in the EH Junior Cups today. The R2 ties which will be played on Nov 15th are:
U18B v North Notts away, U18G v Cannock away, U16B v Leicester away, U16G v Matlock Baileans away
04/10/09 The U18 Boys were the only Beeston team to have a R1 tie in the EH Junior Club Cups; they played Derwent at home. Derwent arrived with a young and inexperienced team and had no reserves. The match was no contest, Beeston lead 9-0 at half term and went on to score relentlessly in the second half. The final score was Beeston 31 Derwent 0, a club record. Beeston Squad= David O, Nick H, Tom V 1g, Charlie W 2g, Ian W 2g,
Mark Sm 1g, Marcus H 5g, Greg N 1g, Matt Pa 2g, Ben M 6g, Ross Wh 2g, Liam A 7g, Joe E, James G,
Alex  C D 1g, Leo W 1g.
04/10/09 NoDe Juniors League, the friendly league for U13Boys/U14 Girls between club teams from Notts
and Derbys, started again today. Beeston sent a boys’ team to play at Ashfield where they beat hosts
Ashfield 3-0, lost 2-3 to North Notts and drew 1-1 with Boots. Beeston Squad = Jack Sm, Cellan and
Gareth Gr, James B 3g, Will J, Simon St, Henry Mac 2g, Harry So 1g and Maaz Ch.
03/10/09 The girls received a last minute invitation to the Foremarke Hall School U11 tournament. They played remarkably well considering that this was the first time they had played together and that their opponents were mostly school teams now several weeks into term. In their group matches although they dominated Beeston
girls failed to score drawing 0-0 with Bromsgrove, Grace Dieu and a strong A team from Foremarke. The
semi final v Belper HC also ended 0-0 even after extra time! However Phoebe Badcock was in tremendous
form in the Beeston goal saving 2 out 3 Belper strokes. Beeston’s Paige Gillott and Zoe Chaplin scored for
Beeston to put the team through to the final. Once again the score was 0-0 at the end of normal time but 1
minute before the end of extra time Fairfield School scored a cracking golden goal. Beeston therefore
finished a creditable Runners Up! Beeston Squad= Phoebe B, Zoe Ch, Paige G, Tosia K, Niamh E,
Beeston Squad= Will P, Tom G, Yiannos K, Elliott Wr, James B 1g, Henry FW 4g, Ed S 3g and Matt Wr.
Amelia A, Phoebe H, Emily M, Nina A.
02/10/09 A Beeston Boys U13 team played Boots in a 7 a side friendly match. The match was 25 minutes
each way and Beeston played very well in the first half but only led 2-0 at the interval. In the 2nd half however
although Boots defended bravely Beeston scored 6 times to make the final score Boots 1 Beeston 8.
29/09/09 Congratulations to the following juniors who have now been selected  for the Mercia Lynx squads.
The U18s and U16s will play in the EH Futures Cup and the U17s and U15s will take part in HiPACS in
October. Special mention  to David Overton who has been promoted to the U18 team.
U18G=  Shona McCallin; U17G= Yasmin Haywood, Wiz Mumby, Madi Smith; U16G= Ciara Bamford, Kim
Leiper, Elice McNair, Maddie Sharpe; U15G= Martha Baker, Katie Hopkisson; U18B= Liam Adams, David Overton, Mark Smallwood, Ian Welch, Ross Whiting; U17B= Marcus Hooper, Ben Morris, Greg Nolan,
Matt Parker, Leo Watton; U16B= Jack Simkins, Sam Steel; U15B= Chris Proctor,  Will Taylor .
25/09/09 The draw for the new EH Club competition  was finalised today. Beeston U14 Girls  have been
drawn in a North League with Belper, Matlock and SBU. They will play matches at Belper on Oct 18th and
Southwell on  Nov 1st. The top 2 teams form each league will then play a Regional Final on April 10th.
Beeston U14 Boys have been drawn in a Midlands League with West Bridgford, Melton, Belper and
Derwent. They will play matches at Melton on Nov 1st and Beeston on Nov 29th. The top 2 teams from each
league will play in a Regional final on April 10th.
24/09/09 A Beeston Girls team beat touring team St Johns School of Argentina 5-0 today.
20/09/09 Beeston Girls  U14 A & B teams played Newark today. Beeston A won both their matches and
Newark beat Beeston B. Beeston U18 Girls bt Newark 4-0 Verity Pierce and Megan Morgan scored.
16/09/09 Beeston Girls U16s and U18s and Boys U16s have been given byes in  R1 Of the EH Junior Cups. Beeston Boys U18s will play Derwent at home on Sunday Oct 4th at 3.30pm in their R1 match. Round 2
matches will take place on Nov 15th.
12/09/09 Beeston Girls U13s have won the Foremarke tournament. The girls beat Witham Hall 2-0,
Foremarke B 3-0 and Grace Dieu 3-0 to win their group. They went on to beat Belper HC 2-1 in the semis
and Witham Hall again 3-0 in the final. Well done Brooke, Hayley, Livvie, Sophia, Gina, Olivia, Sophie,
Lauren and Victoria!
08/09/09 Congratulations to the following Beeston juniors who have been selected for the Nottingham Lynx
teams to play in the cluster competitions against Oxford Lynx and Birmingham Lynx (Tier 1 JRPC activity) on
13th and 27th September..
U18G= Bex Brown, Shona McCallin; U17G= Sophie Aspinall, Gemma Foulkes, Lauren Greasley, Yasmin
Haywood, Wiz Mumby, Madi Smith; U16G= Ciara Bamford, Sarah English, Olivia Hodgkinson, Kim Leiper,
Elice McNair, Holly Rainford, Maddie Sharpe; U15G= Martha Baker, Rebecca Boston, Katie Hopkisson;
U18B= Liam Adams, Alex Clarke Dowson, Matt Proctor, Mark Smallwood, Ian Welch, Ross Whiting;
U17B= Marcus Hooper, Ben Morris, Greg Nolan, David Overton, Matt Parker, James Powell, Jonathan
Purkiss, Leo Watton; U16B= Richard Cartwright, Tom Fletcher Wilson, Matt Shuttleworth, Jack Simkins,
Sam Steel; U15B= Luke Cosford, Tom Mayfield, Chris Proctor, Alex Smith, Will Taylor & Josh Wainwright.
07/09/09 Regular Monday night girls only coaching restarted tonight.
06/09/09 Beeston Girls U16s played in some pre season friendly matches at Worksop today. They beat
Dukeries LHC is 3-1, Worksop College Girls U18s 2-0 but lost 0-1 to Newark LHC 1s.
06/09/09 Liam  Adams (England) and Rob Trem (Wales) played at the UK Schools Games this weekend.
Wales U18 boys won the title by winning all their matches. Beeston Ladies new signing Jo Hunter played for
the England U18 team who won the girls’ title.
06/09/09 Regular Sunday coaching for boys and girls restarted today. Due to the Nottingham JRPC at
Highfields  Beeston coaching took place at Trent College 10-12 noon. This will also happen on Sept 23th,
27th, Oct 11th and 25th. Otherwise it will be at Highfields at the normal time of 9-11am.
01/09/09 Congratulations to former Beeston juniors and current 1st team players Adam Dixon and Ali Wilson
who were part of the Gold Medal winning England men’s team at the European Championships. England
won the title for the first time by beating Holland in the semis and Germany in the final.
20-23/08/09 Beeston Girls  U16/17s have been on tour in Holland they played 3 matches winning 2 and
drawing 1. James Hopkisson, Natalie Hardwicke and Jane Currie  coached and managed the team.
02/08/09 Greg Nolan and David Overton played for England against an Asian Select team. The match
followed the full England match v India in which Ali Wilson and Adam Dixon played.

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