Leek Hockey club heading to national final

Leek Hockey Club make it through to the England Hockey Club Championship Tier 2 National Final.

After a thrilling 5-0 semi final win against Sheffield Bankers Leek HC will be travelling down to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on the 30th April to play Tunbridge Wells HC. This caps off a great end to Leek Hockey Club’s Centenary Season.

The team captained by Bobby Dawson have performed very well this season, finishing 3rd in their league and culminating in a trip to London for the final at the end of the month. The semi-final was a great game with the opposition performing well at the start and putting Leek under pressure. Leek grew into the game, creating numerous chances, the first goal came from player/coach Ben White through a short corner. Leek then started to dominate the game with a second short corner strike from Ben giving Leek a 2-0 lead at half time. The second half started much the same with Ben White completing his hat-trick. Leek’s 4th was the goal of the game with a lovely passing move which split the Sheffield defence coolly finished off by Joe Knott.

Towards the end of the game Leek wound up proceedings with their 5th goal coming from Joe Priestman. This was a great game, played in good spirit in front of a large home crowd. Andy Spragg Leek HC Chairman said: ‘What a great way to finish our Centenary season, we have a busy few weeks for the Club now, with a lot to organise! Starting with our Beer Festival next weekend which is our biggest fund-raiser and then organising a trip down to London for the final. I imagine we will need a coach or two for the supporters that will want to go!’