1. Club Clothing
We are delighted to confirm that the first batch of the new range of club clothing ordered via the online shop arrived today. Anyone who has ordered shorts, skorts, socks, jackets etc can collect these from the bar at the club before training tomorrow and/or on Wednesday this week. Please arrive between 7pm and 7.30pm tomorrow and from 6.30pm to 7pm on Wednesday.
The club shop has reopened. https://ieshc.tsunami-sport.com/ Please place the order before end of day on Sunday 10 October. Deliveries should be made week commencing 22 November to the club.
Please note that the items in the online shop are mainly for adults and older juniors. The juniors are planning to hold a sale of our junior training tops and jackets at half term.
2. League Hockey
The adult league season kicked off on Saturday with eight club teams in action. Pride of place in week one goes to the Men’s 1s, who secured an outstanding win away to City of Peterborough 1 – 0. A new look Men’s 3s secured a great draw at home to Norwich Dragons but there were defeats for Men’s 2s at home to Magpies and Men’s 4s away at Sudbury. The men’s 5s will have to wait for their first taste of league action after Newmarket conceded.
A below strength Women’s 1s were well beaten at Bishops Stortford, one of the fancied teams in East Prem whilst the 2s lost a tight derby game at home to Ipswich. The 3s lost at Castaways whilst sadly we couldn’t field a Women’s 4s team this week.
3. League Results
The new England Hockey Game Management System is unfortunately having teething problems but the East Area league results can be found here: https://gms.englandhockey.co.uk/
4. Come and support our teams on Saturday.
Please try to pop up to the club this coming Saturday and support our teams. There are games throughout the day, with the Women’s 1s at home at 12.30 v Harleston Magpies in East Prem, and the Men’s 1s are also in Prem action taking on Old Southendians who include Ex Olympian Jonty Clarke – push back is at 14.30. Full list of fixtures below.
| Team |
Opposition |
L/F |
H/A |
Start |
| M1 |
Old Southendians |
L |
H |
14.30 |
| M2 |
Newmarket 1s |
L |
A |
15.00 |
| M3 |
N Norfolk 1s |
L |
A |
15.00 |
| M4 |
Pelicans 3s |
L |
H |
13.00 |
| M5 |
Sudbury 4s |
L |
A |
12.00 |
| W1 |
Harleston 2s |
L |
H |
12.30 |
| W2 |
IES 3s |
L |
A |
11.00 |
| W3 |
IES 2s |
L |
H |
11.00 |
| W4 |
Harleston 6s |
L |
A |
10.00 |
5. Junior Hockey
We started the new season with a bang! Two weeks with over 100 young people training each week, including a number of new members – a big IES Juniors welcome to you.
Our first competitive matches start this Sunday, with the U14 girls away at Harleston, triangular fixture v Harleston and Norwich Dragons, the U16 girls at home for a triangular fixture v Felixstowe and Harleston Magpies and the U14 boys at home, for a triangular fixture v Norwich Dragons and Ipswich 7.
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