JR hat trick for ladies fifths
Three goals from Julie Fisher and contributions from Lynsey Stevenson, Karen Jackson and Hilary West, who missed six more, gave the ladies fifths a comfortable 6-0 win over Instonians seconds yesterday.
North Down had an early start to the weekend as they travelled to Shaws Bridge on Thursday to play Inst in their final game of the first phase of the Premier League. With sixth pace already secured North Down were hoping for a good result but unfortunately were defeated by 5-1. The first half was…
ND 5s made the journey across Belfast for an early evening match against Mossley 5s under the Friday night lights hoping to kick start their League Cup campaign after a slow start last weekend. The game started as a very even early season affair with a number of nice attacks breaking down in the final…
North Down thirds travelled to the Joey Dunlop Centre in Ballymoney on Saturday to face Portrush seconds in a league encounter. Having previously beaten them 7-1 in the cup earlier in the season surely we would see more goals? A strong 15 man squad welcomed the visitors with the home side taking advantage of their…
North Down Men’s 3rd XI hosted Cookstown for a league cup group match. After last week’s impressive 5-0 victory against Saintfield, the revamped team felt confident about continuing their winning streak. North started fast and had a gameplan to keep possession and play patient hockey, resisting ‘Holywood’ passes and hopeful long balls. Early season, skipper…
In a rearranged league fixture North Down entertained Cliftonville on Saturday at the Leisure Centre. Cliftonville turned up with a weakened side and provided little opposition for a North Down side growing in confidence as players come back from injury. However they were still without Michael Black and Chris Speers. Cliftonville could not match the…
Having convincingly defeated Antrim earlier in the season, North Down were looking forward with confidence to their visit to Antrim Forum on Saturday. However Antrim fielding a number of changes offered a much more difficult challenge than was expected. In fact they could have been two goals up before North Down started. The first saw…