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Chelmsford Hockey Club Ladies 1st XI had their first league match on Saturday 28th September. The match marked their long awaited return to National League after promotion from the previous successful season. They faced Bromley & Beckenham, the team that pipped them to the top spot in the league last year. Previous show-downs have proved to be highly competitive with … Read More

Result: Loss 8-2 Last Saturday Chelmsford men’s 1st XI ended the 2017-18 season with a home loss to league champions Peterborough City. A hard fought game where the score line underplays the quality of the match – the greens lost 8-2 to finish the season in 7th place. Though not the last game they would have hoped for, the season … Read More

Result: Won 1-0 If you google “Great Escapes” of all time your find previous offerings from yours truly; The great escape WW2 epic from Stalag Luft 3, The return of the King by JRR Tolken, so here goes with a triple header; the Stephen King classic Chelmshank Redemption Our inmates welcomed bottom of the table strugglers Old Loughts to Wardens … Read More

Result: Won 2-2 Our teen fans met at Hill Valley for this week outing, written by Robert Zemecks and plagiarised by yours truly. With the DeLorean in the shop “Doc” Seager and Marty Wood convey the team at warp speed, via Range Rover and Jaguar to our away fixture against mid table residents Surbiton. Our teenagers soon got up to … Read More

Result: W 4-1 Scorers: D Bacon x3, C Clarke The 5th XI got back to winning ways with a well deserved 4-1 victory at Old Southendians. Playing good flowing team hockey. Chelmsford took an early lead with a goal from Dan Bacon who ,10 minutes later, doubled his account with a fine reverse stick strike to make it 2-0. The … Read More

Result: W 2-1 Scorers: Merry Evans, Gollum After a brief rallying point at the shire, our Fellowship embarked on their quest for 6 pointer league match in Mordor just outside chipping Ongar. With OL’s in a similar position at the foot of the table, both sides faced a must win match. OL’s started well pressing high up the pitch our … Read More

Under 10 Girls bring home the spoils from the Essex Regional Qualifiers of the Eastern Region In 2 Hockey Competition at Redbridge Sports Centre on Sunday 11th March. Playing all 4 of their matches back to back without a break Chelmsford beat Waltham Forest 2-0, Old Lougtonians 2-0, drawing 1-1 with Blue Hornets and winning their final match against Crosstyx … Read More

Result –  3-3 Draw Scorers – N Bastian, D Bacon, P Shadbolt. A challenging match and hard fought draw.  Although Chelmsford started off well it was Old Loughtonians who took an early lead in the first half capitalising from attacking short corners with two well struck shots on goal.   At 2-0 down Chelmsford found their form opening up the … Read More

Result: Lost 2-1 Scorer: A Barrett A remarkable performance from the entire Chelmsford squad was worthy of a creditable draw but the visitors snatched all three points in the final phase of the match. Second placed in the league, Wimbledon’s team includes a number of England and GB internationals and they came to Chelmer Park determined to secure a vital … Read More

Result: Won 2-1 A much invigorated Chelmsford Vets side welcome St Albans to Stalag Luft 3, having won 2 of their last 3 league games. The game proceeded along the lines of Paul Brickhills famous second world war story, yep keep guessing…….. Hilts Hull and MacDonald aka Gordon Jackson aka Woody lined up against an in form St Albans side, … Read More