On a sunny Wednesday evening, Roughfort was the venue for the Women’s Senior 2 fixture between Owls and Ballyclare. Our friends at Owl needing a win to jump out of the relegation zone in their last fixture of the season. Heather Carson opened the scoring for Ballyclare Ballyclare took the game to Owls from pushback and midway through the first quarter took the lead with a fine penalty corner strike by Captain Heather Carson, giving the 'keeper little chance.

Voor de eerste keer sinds haar vertrek bij Den Bosch, nu tien jaar geleden, won Yibbi Jansen eindelijk een hoofdprijs in het clubhockey. Met SCHC veroverde de in 2024 tot beste hockeyster van de wereld gekozen sleepspecialist de Euro Hockey League. Uitgerekend Den Bosch werd...

De hockeyers van Kampong hebben voor de derde keer in de clubhistorie de Europese titel veroverd. De ploeg van Tim Oudenaller was effectiever dan de Belgische titelverdediger Gantoise: 3-2.

De Euro Hockey League (EHL) is het meest prestigieuze toernooi in het clubhockey.

Twee Nederlandse clubs, Pinoké en Kampong, nemen het maandag tegen elkaar op in de finale van de Euro Hockey League, het meest prestigieuze toernooi in het clubhockey. Maar het is ook een wedstrijd tussen de twee uitblinkers aan beide zijden.

Venlonaar Rik Sprengers heeft maandag met zijn ploeg Kampong de Euro Hockey League, de hoogste prijs in het Europese clubhockey, veroverd. Daarmee heeft hij nu alles gewonnen wat er te winnen valt op clubniveau.

Bijna veertig miljoen heeft Feyenoord ontvangen, omdat er in de Champions League wordt gespeeld. De mannenploeg van Hockey Club Rotterdam trekt dit weekeinde ook Europa in om in de voorronde van de Euro Hockey League bij Surbiton HC op Sugden Road uit te komen. Het hoogst haalbare podium voor clubhockey. Voor de trip moet de club geld bijleggen. „We zijn gericht op zoek gegaan naar veel sponsors’’, laat voorzitter Jac Bressers weten.

I caught up with the finals day of the Portadown Ladies Hockey Club U15 Girls Invitational Tournament at Edenvilla Park on Sunday. Ten teams were involved. The teams were split into two groups of five and they played out their group round robin matches over Friday and Saturday to give the final group standings as shown below.

Friday evening was our last visit to the Antrim Sixes Tournament and it was the Senior Mixed Trophy that was up for grabs for the nne competing teams at Antrim Forum. Senior Mixed The Kimber Buenos were a shock omission from the play offs. The teams were split into groups of four and five and after the round robin phases we were left with Belfast Harlequins and Saints and Sinners (Saintfield) progressing from Group A.

We caught up with the Senior Men and Women's Competitions in the Antrim Sixes tournament at Antrim forum on Thursday evening. Both competitions provided major upsets in the finals. Senior Men The Senior Men's competition featured Antrim, Instonians Harlequins and Queens. Instonians cruised through the round robin series with three wins from three and they were joined in the finals by Queens who won two of their three games.

We've continued to catch up with the Antrim Sixes tournament at Antrim Forum over the last couple of evenings. On Tuesday evening Paul J Harvey caught up with the Junior Women's Teams and on Wednesday evening I caught up with the Masters and Intermediate Players Competition. Junior Women The "Queen's of the Boards", Ards, got back to winning ways on Tuesday night, picking up their third Tournament win in this seasons competition.

We caught up with some of the Antrim Sixes U15 Girls Tournament at Antrim Forum on Monday evening. The U15 Girls competition featured teams from Ards, Randalstown (2), Dromore, Ballymoney,Instonians (2), Antrim (2), Coleraine, Ballyclare, Larne and Lurgan. Dromore set the early pace at Antrim Forum on Monday 23rd June 2025 The teams were divided into two pools and played four games each.

We caught up with the Club Hockey Women's Veterans Cup Semi Final between Lisnagarvey and Pegasus late Wednesday night at Comber Road. Gillian Hall was amongst the goals for Pegasus in the first quarter. Pegasus too control of the game from the start keeping Garvey pinned in their own half for most of the first quarter. It took them a while to break down the hard working Garvey defence but three late goals from Alex Speers, Gillian Hall and Rachael Murdock saw Pegs take a 0 - 3 lead into the second quarter.

We caught up with the Men's Premier/Intermediate League promotion play off between North Down and Civil Service to determin if North Down stay in the Premier league or if Civil Service are promoted from the Intermediate League to take their palce. I only covered the first half of the match at The Dub on Tuesday evening but North Down looked to be in control by that stage.

We caught up with the Junior 1 League Cup Final between Lisnagarvey 2XI and Banbridge 2XI at Stormont on Saturday afternoon. After their almost perfect league season the prematch chat had Lisnagarvey as firm favourites for this one, but Banbridge made them work hard in the first quarter which ended scoreless. The teams battled out a tight first quarter. There was still very tight in the second quarter until the heavens opened with a torrential downpour of rain and hail.

We caught up with the Ulster Hockey Qualifying Plate Final between Pegauss 3rd XI and Ulster University Elks 2XI at Stormont early Saturday afternoon. Elks had a lively start to the game but, midway through the first quarter, the experienced Pegasus side began to take control and Ruth Millar opened the scoring for a 1 - 0 lead for Pegasus at the end of Q1.

On Saturday afternoon, at the University of Ulster Sports Village, Ulster rivals University of Ulster Elks met, Pegasus in a Women's All Ireland League quarter final playoff. Katie McKee opened the scoring for Pegasus Pegasus started strongly scoring early in the 1st quarter, when Katie McKee drove home a penalty corner for a 1-0 lead. Only some stout Elks defence & brave goalkeeping kept the score to one goal at the end of the 1stquarter.

We caught uo with the Women's Premier League amtch between Mossley and Queen's University at the glade on Wednesday evening. No disrespect to Mossley, who have made a solid return to the Premiership this season, but we were there largley on ceremonial duties as Queen's were being awarded with the Premiership Trophy they won 10 days ago with their victory against Armagh.

We caught up with the Ulster Hockey Senior 1 match between Larne and Rndalstown at Larne Gammar on Wednesday evening. Larne were looking for a win or a draw to claim promotion for the third season on the bounce, a remarkable achievement. Randalstown, despite being in the hunt for most of the seaason, had dropped off the pace in recent weeks but they were always going to be a danger having beaten Larne in the Senior Cup in their last visit to Larne Grammar.

We caught u with Day 4 for the playoff stages of the EuroHockey Clb Trophy 1 Tournament on Easter Monday at Lisnagarvey Hockey Club. There were three play off matches, for 5th, 3rd and 1st place, the day starting with the 5th place play off and working up to the Final between CAM92 and Lisnagarvey. In a final worthy of the occasion CAM92 took a 2 - 1 lead into the second half and they increased the lead to 3 - 1 at the end of Q3.

We caught up with Day 3 of the EuroHocky Club Trophy Tournament at Lisnagarvey on Easter Sunday. It was the final day of the pool stages, the biggest battle being between Scotland's Grange and Ukraine's Vinnitsa to determine who would progress in second place in Pool A. Grange squeezed through with a 1 - 0 win. The Welsh team Cardiff and Met kept Lisnagarvey honest with a big win against Czech side Slavia Prague to put Cardiff top of Pool B for a couple of hours.

We caught up with Day 2 of the EuroHocky Club Trophy Tournament at Lisnagarvey on, a much drier, Saturday. The games were generally much closer as the teams battled for Pool placements, including the firs game between Grange and CAM92 whch was 0 - 0 at half time beforee CAM fully engaged the famed French flare in a devestating second half.

We caught up with the opening day of the EuroHockey Club Trophy I tournament at Lisnagarvey Hockey Club on Easter Friday. The competition features seven teams from across Europe, playing in two pools with the inter pool finals to be held on Easter Monday. Lisnagarvey Hockey Club, representing Irish Hockey, are hosting the tournament over the four days. Day 1 at Comber Road got off to a cold and damp start but it warmed up on the pitch fairly quickly with a total of 18 goals scored across the three games.