Dumfries Hockey Club teams compete in a number of matches at the weekend

Dumfries Hockey Club gents and ladies team had varying degrees of success in their matches at the weekend.

Dumfries Hockey Club

Dumfries Men 3s 0 Giffnock Men 2s 5

Dumfries 3s played their second home match of the season against Giffnock 2s on Saturday.

The visitors opened the scoring after 10 minutes and added a second a few minutes later. Dumfries were all over the place and out of sorts but managed to get to half-time at 0-2.

The second half was very much like the first with Giffnock adding a three further goals. The highlight of the match was when the Giffnock striker found himself one-on-one with Turner in the Dumfries goal, this time the youngster prevailed, pulling off a fantastic double save with his legs.

The men in red pushed until the end but couldn’t find anything meaningful and the final score was 0-5. Well done to Taylor Barr for his debut and to Callum Turner who earned player of the match.

Dumfries Ladies 1s 12 Giffnock Ladies 0

Dumfries Ladies 1s faced the newly promoted Giffnock in their second game of the season on Saturday.

The ladies made their intentions clear right from the start, with Beth McCall scoring within the first minute.

Giffnock struggled to find space from hit outs as Dumfries pressed effectively, leading to a lot of possession in the opposition half, resulting in well taken goals from Drife and Topping to give Dumfries a 3-0 lead after 12 minutes.

Giffnock’s speedy midfielders made some assertive runs into the Dumfries half but calm, defensive play from Bell, Irving, Anderson and Bryce ensured there was no way through.

Dumfries continued to look dominant, using the width provided by Austin, Rowcroft and Edgar to create numerous opportunities on goal with Morrin and McCall adding to the tally before the half time whistle. 5-0.

Giffnock started the second half positively, looking to close the gap on Dumfries but were beginning to tire. Forwards Milne and Drife were making life very difficult for the Giffnock defence and were awarded a number of penalties. Eventually captain Nicholson received the left slip from McCall and fired home the sixth goal of the match.

After more Giffnock infringements in the shooting D, Dumfries were awarded a penalty flick which McCall slotted away with ease. Giffnock were struggling to make it out of their half. Further goals from Topping (3), Law and Drife saw the game finish 12-0.

A quiet afternoon for keeper McCubbin, however, her direction from the back ensured Dumfries maintained their structure and composure. Thanks to umpire James Aitken.

Hillhead Men 7s 2 Dumfries Men 2s 4

A strong start from Dumfries, with two early chances falling to McFarlane and Brown. Then a breakthrough goal from Kershaw, assisted by McFarlane in the 12th minute was quickly followed by a second – great teamwork finished off by Freddie.

Dumfries stepped-back a little and Hillhead got a goal back but this galvanised the Dumfries team and Brown got his second, 3-1 to Dumfries at half-time.

Early in the second half, Hillhead made it 2-3 and Dumfries keeper, Steele had to make a couple of saves to avoid more goals. Rennie then took control in defence, allowing the youthful midfield to attack to create chances and eventually they got a fourth goal, scrambled over the line by Bean.

Man of the match was Freddie Brown.

Strathclyde Ladies 2s Dumfries Ladies 12

The ladies were competing against Strathclyde in this West District Cup first round match on Sunday and they didn’t take much time in scoring, with Tori Barbour finding the bottom corner after just four minutes. The rest of the quarter saw the ladies settle, with debutantes Anna, Effie, Eilidh and Gil all fitting in nicely.

Elen later scored from a well executed penalty corner and this was followed by another two goals from captain Jen to make the half-time score 4-0.

The second half followed the same pattern, with one way traffic towards the Strathclyde goal. Next on the score sheet was Penny with two followed by Tori bagging her second of the day and Tiahni with her first to take the score to 8-0.

In the final quarter it was time for captain Nicholson to complete her hat-trick and goal of the day went to Emily’s tomahawk into the top corner. Then, to top the day Effie and Eilidh set each other up to score goals 11 and 12.

Player of the match was Eilidh Topping.

Thanks to Ross Carson for umpiring at short notice.

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