{"id":3861,"date":"2018-09-17T21:48:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clydesdalehockey.org.uk\/staging\/?p=3861"},"modified":"2018-10-01T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T07:42:26","slug":"cup-wins-shocks-and-near-shocks-weekend-review-16th-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clydesdalehockey.org.uk\/staging\/cup-wins-shocks-and-near-shocks-weekend-review-16th-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Cup wins, shocks and near shocks! &#8211; Weekend Review &#8211; 16th September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>M1s 3-2 Hillhead 1s (S Walker (2), D Baber) &#8211; Men&#8217;s Scottish Cup 1st Round<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Match sponsor \u2013 Cloud Accounting Specialists Limited<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clydesdale Men&#8217;s 1s secured a passage into the next round of the Men&#8217;s Scottish Cup after a hard fought win against Hillhead at Titwood on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both sides were coming off the back of a league match the day before, so tired legs during the match was to be expected.&nbsp; But Clydesdale came out of the blocks fast and took an early lead.&nbsp; Struan Walker found space at the top of the circle to send a front stick shot low past the Hillhead &#8216;keeper.&nbsp; Walker then doubled his and Clydesdale&#8217;s account five minutes later.&nbsp; Dean Baber slapped a pass into the circle, which took a deflection of a Hillhead stick before arriving at Walker who took a touch before sending another low shot into the visitor&#8217;s goal.&nbsp; Hillhead applied pressure to force a goal back before half time, but the home side held firm.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes into the second half, however, saw Hillhead get a goal back.&nbsp; A drag flick pass from the left was put past &#8216;Dale keeper, Sean Mahoney with a deft touch from a Hillhead forward. A couple of minutes later, Baber&#8217;s stick work beat a couple of Hillhead defenders before arriving into the circle and lifting over the &#8216;keeper to restore &#8216;Dale&#8217;s two goal lead.&nbsp; The two goal lead lasted no more than ten minutes when Hillhead won a corner and sent a drag flick shot past Mahoney.&nbsp; From then on, Hillhead stepped up in their efforts to force an equaliser which brought out crucial saves from Mahoney and the defence in front of him.&nbsp; The M1s eventually held out for the last 15 minutes to seal a place in the 2nd round of the Men&#8217;s Scottish Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L1s 4-2 GHK 1s (E McGregor (2), A Hoolaghan, G Smith) &#8211; Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup 1st Round<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clydesdale Western also sealed a place in the next round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup after seeing off GHK at Titwood on a late Sunday pass back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Much like the Men&#8217;s 1s, both sides were coming off the back of a Saturday league encounter.&nbsp; In addition, Clydesdale Western picked a side without players representing the Scottish national side, so a tough game was to be expected.&nbsp; But the L1s got off to a flyer as they went 3-0 up midway through the first half.&nbsp; Anna Hoolaghan opened the scoring, before Emma McGregor scored two goals &#8211; all three goals finishing impressive team moves by Clydesdale Western.&nbsp; GHK scored an overtime penalty corner, which gave them a glimmer of hope going into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>But Clydesdale Western looked to have secured the game, when Georgia Smith capitalised on a defensive error to push the ball into an empty goal and restore the L1s three goal lead.&nbsp; GHK then scored from another penalty corner not long after to cut down the lead.&nbsp; The lead could have been cut further, as the away side secured a number of corners, but the home side were indebted to great saves from goalkeeper Jessica Buchanan and brave blocks from her defence.&nbsp; &#8216;Dale Western saw the game out at 4-2, and like the M1s secured a place in the 2nd round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>M2s 14-0 Madras College FP 1s (C Moulson (6), B Galloway (2), S Craig (2), J Berman (2), B Paul, E Robertson); M3s 3-3 Grange 5s &#8211; Grange 5s won 4-3 on PFs (C Oliver (2), B Mitchell); L2s 1-1 Edinburgh University 1s &#8211; Edinburgh University 1s won 4-2 on PFs (S Lonergan); L3s 3-1 Kelburne 1s (G Green (2), H Walker); L4s 1-11 Orkney 1s (K Stobo)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fair amount drama ensued on Cup Sunday, with the biggest shock coming from the L3s who put out Kelburne&#8217;s 1st XI out of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup thanks to a 3-1 win at Glasgow Green.&nbsp; Veterans Gill Green (two) and Helen Walker got the goals to send the L3s into the 2nd round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup.&nbsp; The L2s almost pulled off the shock of the Scottish Hockey season, but sadly lost out on penalty flicks to Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup holders, Edinburgh University 1s at Titwood.&nbsp; Uni took the lead, but Sarah Lonergan grabbed an equaliser for the home side.&nbsp; The L2s held firm with &#8216;keeper Mairi Fletcher pulling off a number of superb saves to send the tie to flicks.&nbsp; But it was the holders who prevailed, winning 4-2 on PFs to join the L1s and L3s into the 2nd round of the Women&#8217;s Scottish Cup.&nbsp; The M3s also lost out on PFs in the Men&#8217;s Scottish Reserve Cup at home to Grange 5s.&nbsp; The M3s played out an intense 3-3 draw, which saw Conor Oliver score twice and Ben Mitchell also scoring.&nbsp; The M3s lost 4-3 on flicks and will now enter the Men&#8217;s Scottish Reserve Plate.&nbsp; There were two high scorelines in the final two matches, which were both early pass backs.&nbsp; A young M2s side, away to Madras College FP 1s in St Andrews, sealed a place in the 2nd round of the Men&#8217;s Scottish District Cup with a 14-0 win.&nbsp; Colin Moulson scored six goals as the M2s completed an excellent team performance.&nbsp; Ben Galloway, Sandy Craig, Jeetinder Berman (all with two each), Blair Paul and Ethan Robertson were the M2s other goalscorers.&nbsp; The L4s, who travelled to Inverness to play Orkney 1s, went out of the Women&#8217;s Scottish District Cup.&nbsp; Despite going in 2-1 down at half time, Orkney produced a ruthless goalscoring peformance to run out 11-1 winners &#8211; Kirstin Stobo scored the L4s only goal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Once again, a tremendous effort from our teams in action in Sunday cup games &#8211; well done to all!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Rhona Weir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M1s 3-2 Hillhead 1s (S Walker (2), D Baber) &#8211; Men&#8217;s Scottish Cup 1st Round Match sponsor \u2013 Cloud Accounting Specialists Limited Clydesdale Men&#8217;s 1s secured a passage into the next round of the Men&#8217;s Scottish Cup after a hard fought win against Hillhead at Titwood on Sunday. 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