IT WAS A busy weekend of hockey for the various Fjordhus Reivers teams who are based at Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders.

The U18 Girls took part in the Scottish Hockey Club Cup at Peffermill.

In game one versus GHK after winning a penalty corner a rocket of a strike from Jess Main was saved illegally on the line and Jess stepped up to fire the resulting penalty stroke passed the helpless GK.

However two fast break counter attacks from the Glasgow girls saw them move in to a 2-1 lead. The GHK Goal Keeper was kept on her toes and made some valiant saves from the aggressive Reivers frontline of Katie Macdonald, Maartje de Zoeten, Mackenzie Crick and Felicity Walls.

On the stroke of time another breakaway from GHK saw them complete the game with a 3-1 victory and all three points going to the Glasgow Team.

Game two against Grove Menzieshill was a completely different story. With a reshuffle of players in positions, the Reivers girls looked far more composed and confident. By half time the Reivers had slotted three away through Naesi de Zoeten, Felicity Walls and Lily Byers.

Second half saw more of the same with another two balls finding the net through Lily and Mackenzie. A couple of lapses in concentration saw the Grove girls pull two back, but all in all it was a fantastic performance from the girls.

A huge shout out to Reivers two Goal keepers on the day, Kirsten Finnie and Bella Boyde. As Grove had lost their GK, our girls stepped up and offered to play in goal for them. This is credit to them and they did the Club proud, both in our goals and in between the sticks for Grove.

In addition, L4’s travelled to Stirling to play Wanderers 2’s.

From the start the Ladies 4s capitalised on a large amount of possession and spent the first 10 minutes in the attacking circle however a very determined defence denied any clear shots to goal. 15 minutes into the game things began to open up and the skills of our fantastic young pups upfront resulted in a couple of scrambled goals. A further goal made from Katie Francis before half time making it 3-0.

After the break Reivers pulled the press back to the half way line in the hope that it would create more space to go forward. This was successful in creating opportunities and it wasn’t long before the 4’s team added a further 3 goals.

In the final 10 minutes, Reivers pressed high splitting the pitch and this forced the Stirling defence to make errors in their defensive circle which were converted in to penalty corners.

A further two goals were scored from the two set piece corners with Molly and Chloe scoring.

Remarkably the opposition didn’t get one shot on goal, penalty corner or long corner, much to the relief of the Reivers’ ladies who had travelled without a goal keeper.

This leaves the ladies 4’s top of East League 2 after three games in a comfortable position with 16 goals for and a defensive clean sheet.

In their second game of the season, the Ladies 6s took on Livingston & West Lothian 2s at Tweedbank and put their opposition under a lot of pressure throughout the match and managed to slot in two goals, both in the first half, through Ava McCall and Izzy Molyneux.