Pro-Life Kelburne Mens 5s Beat Uddingston 5s - 1-0

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On 10.3.18 : The game started with the typical Scottish weather at its best. After a strong start youngster Charlie Feeney popped up at the back post to put Kelburne in the lead. Don Tervit also came very close after great play as Kelburne continued to have the best of the action. 30 minutes in and Don had a firm discussion with the opposition resulting in a 'conversation' with the umpire.

The second half had sustained Kelburne pressure which resulted in a series of short corners from which the Uddingston goalkeeper pulled off some excellent saves. One short corner resulted in a disputed disallowed goal from Dick Donaldson after good work in the D. It was a tight match for the remainder of the 2nd half but Kelburne held their nerve in the last minute as an Uddingston penalty corner came to nothing for a deserved 1 - 0 victory.

Kelburne 5s travel to Eastwood High School to play the rearranged match against Giffnock 2s on Monday 19th March with a 7-15pm pushback

Pro-Life Kelburne Ladies 2s Lose vs Ayr 0-1

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On 17.3.18 - The women's 2nd XI travelled down to Ayr and played a challenging and intense match in freezing conditions. The girls started strong from the start and had a couple of chances in the first 15 minutes from Phillippa and Amber. The team developed and grew into the game and was able to get a few short corners. Unfortunately, we couldn't get any outcomes and half time came. After a great team talk everyone was eager for the second half. Holly and Cara had great runs down the line and create many chances for the strikers. After pushing high, Ayr hit on the counter attack which lead to a goal. None the less Kelburne kept their heads high and pushed for the equalizer. Great play from Anna and Connie kept a strong back line and helped to push the team forward. This lead to many opportunities however Kelburne were unable to put the ball in the back of the net. Great play from everyone who made the trip and we are looking forward to playing Sterling Wanderers next week.

Pro-Life Kelburne Mens 5s Beat Giffnock 2s 3-2

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19.3.18 : On a baltic Monday evening the young Kelburne team took on a much changed Giffnock 2nd team. With the Kelburne boys having an excellent victory in the 1st league encounter of the season it was obvious that Giffnock were in no mood to feel similar pain. The game started with Kelburne trying to pass and move the ball nicely and Giffnock trying to force the ball straight through. As the 1st half continued Kelburne gained more control of the ball and a sweeping passing move down the right flank involving Scott Peters, Dick Donaldson and Jack Nelson led to the ball being fired across the ‘D’ for Arron Ohear to sweep into the goal at the back post. 1 nil to Kelburne and the boys were playing great. At the other end Giffnock were beginning to stretch the Kelburne defence and managed to gain a couple of short corners that were dealt with comfortably by the defenders. Young Fionn Wilson playing well in goals pulling off 2 good saves. Unfortunately a great strike from the top of the ‘D’ from their 3rd short corner lead to the equaliser. Nothing the young keeper could do about this one, the ball through the defence and past him before he could react! Throughout the 1st half and into the 2nd the ‘ever young’ Don Tervit tried to drive the boys on and made a number of defence splitting passes for Ross Gillies, Sam Hunt, Arron O'Hear and Jack Nelson to try and add to the score, but to no avail. As the 1st half was coming to an end spectator and part time clairvoyant Darren Wilson was just saying that now would be a good time to score, and that’s exactly what happened. Another fine passing move down the right lead to Kelburne’s 2nd goal. Young Rory Donaldson scoring his 1st senior goal with a spectacular effort. From almost the baseline he fired an unstoppable effort into the roof of the net. Half Time Giffnock 2s 1-2 Kelburne 5s The 2nd half started with a change of keeper for Kelburne with the even younger Rowan McClure taking over from the impressive Fionn.  Giffnock were the more dominant team at the start of the 2nd half and as a full team of adults they were beginning to add a more physical aspect to their game. One Giffnock forward attempted to run straight through Rowan in goal, but the young man showed no fear in holding his ground, stopping the attacker and saving the attempt at goal. Great effort! Giffnock did however manage to score again and make the score 2-2. With 15 minutes left in the game and Giffnock struggling to breakdown the young Kelburne team, the Giffnock tempers stared to flare and they started to argue amongst themselves. This gave Kelburne a lift and with renewed effort and vigour they closed down the Giffnock players at every opportunity, giving them no time on the ball to make a telling contribution. It’s was with this determination that Kelburne took the lead. Ross Gillies closed down the Giffnock centre half at pace forcing him to pass to their right back, young Ross continued his harassment of the defence by sprinting to close down the 2nd defender. The defender panicked and his attempted pass was intercepted by Dick who then drove towards the Giffnock goal. Seeing Don free to his left Dick passed to Don who didn’t disappoint. He rounded the 1st defender and as the 2nd defender tried to put Don into orbit he managed to slip the ball past the keeper and give Kelburne a 3-2 lead. 5 minutes left and with Giffnock really starting to put themselves about, the Kelburne team coolly controlled possession to finish the game with a victory. Throughout the game, a tremendous effort was put in by the Kelburne defence, particularly Callum Brown, Scott Peters & Callum Stewart. They were helped ‘a little’ by the elder Ewan Crawford and elder again Willie Hunt, but the young boys were outstanding. A great team performance on a freezing Monday night lead to another fine victory for this ever improving Kelburne 5th Team.  Final Score Giffnock 2s 2-3 Kelburne 5s

50 Year Anniversary Committee

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In 2019 Kelburne will celebrate its 50th Anniversary. To mark this significant event in the clubs history we are planning a year of events which will recognise and celebrate the success of the club over the last 50 years. 

In order to begin planning the events we are looking to form a small committee who will coordinate the year of celebration. Contributions can be tailored to suit whatever time commitments you have available.

We would welcome representation from all areas of the club, past, present and future to allow us to showcase all elements of our great club. 

If you would be interested in joining the committee please email info@kelburne.com with an indication of interest. 

Easyfundraising

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Pro-Life Mens 5s Beat Helensburgh 3s 4-1

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On 24.02.18 - With the sun shining and a large crowd gathering to watch a combination of youth and mature hockey players keen to keep up their charge to the top of the league, the Kelburne 5s were ready for their return to outdoor games.  Helensburgh could only muster 10 players, using 1 as a kicking back. The team used the extra player to their advantage with continued pressure on their D. Some great passing and movement showed that training hard lets you play hard with chance after chance, with their Kicking back keeping the scores nil-nil at HT.  After some encouragement in the HT chat, the boys were determined to turn the chances into goals and up pipped Aaron to score the first goal with some great build up play. Goals then came from Don, Dick and young Charlie Feeney proving that the game was out of Helensburgh's reach. A late consolation goal for Helensburgh was as a result of a fast counter attack which was only their second shot on target during the whole game. The boys hope to take this confidence in to next week's game.

Bromac Kelburne Mens 1s Beat Clydesdale 2-1

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On 24.02.18 - Saturday saw Kelburne returning to outdoor matters with a home game against Clydesdale at Glasgow Green.  With Kelburne missing a few, starting with 11 players and one or 2 boys returning from injury during the week, Saturday could prove to be a trickier than usual game against a youthful Clydesdale team. The game started fairly slowly with both teams struggling to find any rhythm. It was Kelburne that began to create a few chances with Clydesdale looking to counter with a few of their promising youngsters in attack. It wasn't long before the paisley side scored from a short corner through Ben Peterson. In what was a quiet 1st half the paisley side went in 1-0. The 2nd half did see both teams create more.  Kelburne winning a number of corners but poor delivery and finishing resulted in a number of missed chances. At 1-0 it remained a tense time with the next goal being crucial.  Kelburne was to get that goal from Gary Maitles making it 2-0 after good interplay in midfield which resulted from a good pass finding Gary in the D to finish calmly.

With the game coming to a close the disjointed Kelburne defence allowed a Clydesdale forward to sneak in unmarked to finish past Rory Kerr. Not the most entertaining of games and performance levels will certainly need to be picked up across the park but the paisley side will be happy to get 3 points on the board and will take the 2-1 win and regroup ahead of a very challenging game at home against Menzieshill at Glasgow Green this coming Saturday.

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Pro-Life Kelburne Ladies 2s Beat Kinross 4-3

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On 17.02.18 - After a luxurious journey in the Kelburne party bus (Millennium Executive Travel) to Kinross the Kelburne girls were ready and raring to go. With some youngsters coming in from the 3s the team came out of the traps at some pace scoring 2 goals in the first 10 minutes, Jenny C getting her stick on the end of some crashing passes into the D. Taking the foot of the gas Kinross managed to find some holes through the Kelburne defence and brought back to 2-2 at half time. After a rousing talk at half time the girls were fired up and ready to go again. Kinross had other ideas and pushed forward finding a small gap to slot the ball into the goal. With a late surge Drew Berry went on a skillful run into the D pulled the ball on to her reverse stick and smacked the ball into the back of the net. With only minutes to Kelburne were awarded 2 short corners the first skimming past the post from top D. The second attempt was slotted left to Captain Jen Morgan who swept the ball into the left hand corner to win the game 4-3!

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Pro-Life Kelburne Mens 5s Beat Western Wildcats 4s - 5-3

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On 17.02.18 - Kelburne started well and with 5 mins gone they won a free hit just outside the Western D from which a shot from Don Tervit hit the post and bounced to safety. Shortly after a good pass by Don fell to youngster Aaron O'Hear who was unlucky to see his shot on goal go narrowly past. Great play by Aaron got the first short comer of the game for Kelburne but this came to nothing. With 10 mins gone great link up play by Dick Donaldson, Tommy Austin and Scott Peters earned a long comer. From this a great shot by Aaron brought out a good save by the Western keeper. Kelburne finally got the goal their play deserved after 12 mins when a short corner was fired home by Don 1-0 Kelburne. Kelburne continued to have all of the play with everyone working hard all over the pitch. Kelburne doubled their lead on 25 mins when Don fired home after some great play. In one of Westerns few attacks of the first half the danger was cleared by a great tackle by Willie Hunt. A great drive by Dick Donaldson down the right into the D and Jack Nelson was unlucky with his shot. With 30 minutes gone great play by Kelburne in the attacking half was unlucky to break down after great play by Tommy and Rory Donaldson. Any chance of a Western goal was stopped by a great tackle by Callum Stewart on the right to break up the play and clear the danger as we reached halftime.

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Pro-Life Kelburne Ladies 2s Lose Out to Strathclyde Uni 2-3

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On 10.02.18 - Kelburne took on Strathclyde Uni in their first game of the second half of the season. The first half being fairly even between the two teams with both creating chances but good work from the back four of Ellie Houston, Anna Hendry, Connie Reid and Sarah Wilson limiting their attacks along with brilliant saves from Abbie Houston. Unfortunately It was then Strathclyde that took the lead 1-0 just before half time. Starting back in the second half strath were quick on the off taking a second goal making it 2-0. However kelburne kept going with Jen Morgan and Katrina Miller playing well in mid passing it about. A short corner was then given to kelburne which after an unlucky deflection led to a penalty flick for kelburne which was then score by Ellie Houston, bringing the girls back it in 2-1. Strath then managed from a quick turn over to gain a 3rd goal bringing it to 3-1. Soon after another goal came for kelburne after a brilliant drive from Cara Bruce down the line and across the back led to a cram on the goal mouth and a joint effort of Cara and Katrina led to a second goal 3-2. Kelburne were able to gain a couple of more chances and short corners but were unfortunate with the game finishing 3-2 after great determination to try bring it back.

Renfrew Community Hockey Club

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As part of our ongoing partnership with Renfrewshire Leisure Sports Services, we are launching a new community club based at Trinity High School in Renfrew. 

The sessions are targeted towards pupils in the Renfrew and Erskine areas and will run from 16th February until 23rd March at Trinity High school.

The sessions are open to all P4-7 pupils and bookings are on a first come, first served basis. Bring plenty of water and warm, waterproof clothes as we'll be outside. You can sign up using the link below. 

http://bit.ly/2BcRVlW

A great opportunity for pupils to come and learn the game with coaches from the most successful hockey club in Scotland!!

 

Kelburne Community Club

Trinity High School

16th Feb until 23rd March. 4.00-5.00pm

Follow the Scotland Men's Squad in the 5-Nations in Malaga NOW

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Opening Match:  USA 1-3 Scotland

(R. Harwood, W. Marshall, W. Adams)

Kelburne Legends in 5 Nations Squad, Malaga

The Scotland men won their opening match in the 5-nations in Malaga against USA with a 3-1 victory.

There were windy conditions in Malaga and Scotland got off to a flying start when they took the lead through an early goal. Rob Harwood scored on his international debut to make it 1-0 with a cool finish from the youngster. A long ball over the top of the USA defence found Harwood bearing down on goal and he casually lifted the ball over the goalkeeper to open the scoring.

The Scots were hungry for more goals and peppered the USA D with sliding passes, one of which only just evaded the stick of Nick Parkes arriving late at the far post.

Scotland’s second goal hit the back of the net in the 26th minute. Willie Marshall slammed home a penalty corner to make it 2-0.

Into the second half and USA came into the contest. A good save by Tommy Alexander denied USA Tyler Sundeen a goal after he snatched the ball from Ben Cosgrove. Alexander padded the ball clear with ease to keep Scotland’s two-goal lead intact.

Some nice build up by the Scots down the left saw Duncan Riddell find some space in the D but his pass was blocked in front of goal.

Then USA drove forward and scored. They made their way into the D from the right and the pass across goal was tapped home by Nick Molcsan.

Scotland stepped up their play in the final quarter and nearly went 3-1 up early doors. Michael Bremner crashed the ball into the D and it broke for Russell Anderson, but he couldn’t connect properly and the ball bounced clear.

A late chance for Gavin Byers saw the zipped pass from the left evade his stick before Gordon McIntyre teed up Alan Forsyth, but his reverse on the turn fired over the bar.

Scotland then scored a third goal and it was a screamer. Lee Morton picked up the ball on the half way line and weaved his way through player after player, he set up Wei Adams who unleashed a rocket into the top corner to make it 3-1.

Coverage by Scottish Hockey, https://www.scottish-hockey.org.uk/

Find out more about the Scotland men’s squad HERE.

Photo by Mark Pugh, Malaga

Photo by Mark Pugh, Malaga

Thank You to all You Umpires out there!

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Thank you to all our Umpires out there for your support and time throughout the season, rain or shine, it's much appreciated.  Special thanks to Doughie McEwan who works tirelessly behind the scenes organising all the umpires, the 'Umpire Schedule' and who also umpires many games himself!

Well done all, hope you are having a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

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Umpires wired up for sound and ready to go!

Umpires wired up for sound and ready to go!

Kelburne Legend Selected for GB Men's Squad

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Congratulations to our very own 'home-grown' Scotland internationalist Lee Morton who has been called up to the GB Hockey men’s senior squad. 

Lee who finishes off a fine year after representing Scotland in the EuroHockey Championship II winning team and at the World League Semi-Final in London is off to join fellow Scots Chris Grassick and Alan Forsyth (Kelburne Legend) on the programme for the Olympic cycle  working towards Tokyo 2020.

Lee Morton said, “I’m delighted to have been called up to the senior GB squad and can’t wait to get started in January.  It’s an important next step in my hockey career and I can’t wait to see what the next few years brings”

Scottish Hockey Head of Performance, Andy Tennant, said, “We’re delighted to have an exciting young player of Lee’s quality on the GB programme. It's great news that Lee has earned a place on the Programme, he has worked extremely hard and is a great prospect for the future.”

All very proud of you at Kelburne Lee, good luck.

see more at Scottish Hockey: https://www.scottish-hockey.org.uk/

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Kelburne Youngsters selected for Scotland U16s Academy head to Scotstoun

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Well done to our Kelburne youngsters who were selected for the Scottish Hockey Academy Programme - Scotland U16s Boys & Girls - Jessie Cuthbertson, Logan McClure & Niall Taylor  headed off to Scotstoun Stadium earlier this month for the Programme Induction with Scottish Hockey Head of Performance Andy Tennant and the Scottish Hockey Coaches.

Good luck from all at Kelburne.

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New Kelburne Grips

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New Kelburne Grips from Chamrox

Get yourself a brand new Kelburne grip for Christmas.

Limited stock available, first come first served basis!

More will be available for the second half so don’t despair if you aren’t lucky this time.

Max order at the moment is 2 grips per person.

£6

Please email;

sponsorship@kelburne.com

With your name, contact details and team/section.

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