Reading and East Grinstead kept their 100 per cent record after three games in the Women’s Premier Division, as champions Surbiton slipped to a home defeat on Saturday.
Surbiton took on Wimbledon in an 8pm game at Sugden Road during the EHL men, with the visitors clinching a 2-1 win to record their first three-pointer of the season, Megan Crowson and Phoebe Barnett producing second-half goals following Martha Taylor’s opener for Surbiton.
Biba Mills kept her good form intact for East Grinstead as she scored a brace for the second game running in a 5-3 win at UoN.
EG led 5-0 before Maddie Axford scored twice in four minutes and Monica Watkins netted at the death to restore some parity.
Loughborough Students also scored a 5-3 win on the road. Another late flurry of goals saw Kirsten Oudshoorn and Sam McCrory net for the Students to secure the points.
It was the same in Bristol where Annabel Mills and Aine Curran scored in the last minutes for a 3-1 for Bowdon at Clifton Robinsons.
On a day for the visitors, top side Reading won 6-0 at UoB, with Abbie Dixon netting a hat-trick.
Only H&W picked up points as hosts, winning 4-1 against Holcombe.
In the Men’s Premier Divisions, Old Georgians’ powerhouse start to the season continued courtesy of a 12-1 win over Richmond. Sam Ward racked up another hat-trick and Alan Forsyth and James Carson netting braces.
Forsyth and Ward scored in the first and last minute respectively as OGs won their 20th match in a row.
Holcombe, like OGs, have three wins from three despite the negative headlines surrounding Nick Bandurak’s departure from the club.
Holcs beat H&W 3-2 at Paddington Rec, with Tim Neild ssecuring the points via 58th-minute goal.
EG came from 1-0 down to win 3-1 at Bowdon. Oxted also won on the road, winning 4-1 at Southgate and Lucas Ward scoring twice.
Beeston meanwhile beat Cardiff & Met 2-1 at home, with hitman Henry Croft blazing the winner in the second-half.