By Julie Fisher The ladies fourths played their first round Junior Plate match against Grosvenor fourths at Ards Leisure Centre last Saturday. With the Grosvenor team in the league section above the thirds, it was destined to be a tough match. The game began at a fast pace. North Down took time to settle and for…
By Julie Fisher The Under 11 girls played their first tournament of the year last Sunday (27.01.13) at Comber Leisure Centre. With a mix of teams from Grosvenor, Ards, Saintfield and Civil Service they had 5 games in all. They won their first match against one of the Grosvenor teams and the remaining matches were a…
By Davy Frazer The ladies 1stXI made the short journey to Stormont on Saturday hoping for three points to keep the pressure on Ballymena who had jumped above them in the league into third position, the position Coach Frazer says is the aim for the season. With no umpires being supplied by the Ulster Branch,…
By Robin Mitchell Bottom of the league side Armagh travelled to Comber on Saturday and returned home soundly beaten following a 14 – 0 annihilation. This was never a contest with North Down strolling to an 11 – 0 halftime scoreline but credit to the young inexperienced Armagh side as they never gave up and a…
By Kathryn Rogers On Saturday North Down thirds travelled to play Randalstown fourths in the Junior Plate after being put out of the cup by Ballymoney thirds. Following their 10-1 victory over Priorians seconds in their last match North Down started strongly. Solid passing between the midfield and forwards enabled the visitors to apply pressure to…
By Peter Bond The Under 11 boys travelled down to Banbridge on Sunday in the latest round of organised fixtures. The first game of the day was against Banbridge B where the boys withstood heavy pressure on their goal and defended stoutly making numerous goal line clearances. Agonisingly with only a few seconds to go Bann…
North Down made the long trip to Raphoe on Saturday in arduous weather conditions but arrived to find the pitch in fine order and overhead conditions reasonable.
By Terry Ritchie The seconds recorded their eleventh successive victory on Saturday with a 5-3 win over Civil Service thirds and while not one of the teams better performances, the 3 points extend the Seconds lead in Junior 2 to 5 points. The game started with North Down playing fast controlled hockey. Service defended effectively and…
A 4-2 victory against joint second placed Newry ensures North Down maintain pressure on leaders Raphoe who will host North Down next week.
Peter Bond and Melvyn Nicholls have both reached the 50 mark in the past 2 weeks. Peter has now reached 54 and Melvyn got number 50 last Saturday. Well done both. Meanwhile, there are two players sitting close to the 100 mark. Johnny Clarke has had a stop/start spell at North Down but has now…