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Report of games played on Saturday 14th November 2009

1st Team (Match report by Giles Pargeter)
Kingswinford 7 - 1 Aston University
Goal scorers: Sarj Takhar, Daman Johal, Matt Edwards 5

Kingswinford entertained Aston University students at the Dell in this West Mids BodyKraft League 2 fixture. Sarj Takhar opened the scoring for Kings with a brilliant turn and shot from 'd' top. Daman Johal added a second with a deft touch to a defence splitting pass from AJ Sandhu. Thereafter it was the Matt Edwards show. Matt scored 5 excellent goals which have propelled him to the top scorers chart. There were some good saves from Giles Pargeter to restrict Aston to just 1 goal. Man of match Matt Edwards. Skipper Sonny Matharu commented "That was a brilliant result. The next few weeks are vital for us especially with the injury sustained to Harpreet Hundal. He is out for the next 5 weeks and we will miss him".

2nd Team (Match report by Sharm Dhaliwal)
Kynoch 2 - 2 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Hari Singh, Charlie Norman

The 2nds travelled to the UCE Sports Grounds in Perry Bar, in a positive mood confident of making amends for the previous weeks’ disastrous outing. However, Kynoch took a surprising lead against the run of play when a hopeful shot in the “D” was deflected in by a hapless defender. The 2nds responded quickly by increasing the tempo and equalised via a penalty corner when Sharm Dhaliwal drew the defence before slipping the ball to Hari Singh who calmly slotted the ball home. K’ford kept up the pressure and was rewarded with a second goal resulting from a direct hit by Charlie Norman from another penalty corner. K’ford kept up the pressure in the second half, but couldn’t turn their dominance into goals and were punished, when a Kynoch counter attack was cleverly touched into goal past a stranded Chris Rawlings. Overall, the team felt that they had thrown away 2 points and it is back to the drawing board before next weeks’ visit to high flying West Bromwich.

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 0 - 3 Bloxwich

Badgers (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 2 - 3 Streetly
Goal scorers: Sophie Tibbetts, Guneet Uppal

EH Under 18's Plate (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 0 - 14 Lichfield

Report of games played on Sunday 8th November 2009

EH Over 40's Cup (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 0 - 3 Chester

Report of games played on Saturday 7th November 2009

1st Team (Match report by Giles Pargeter)
Oswestry 4 - 10 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Ajay Sandhu (2), Chris Brown (3), Ash Baig, Harpreet Hundal, Sarj Takhar, Daman Johal, Azad Akhtar.

Kingswinford replied in excellent fashion to a bad start, when they were 1-0 down within 2 minutes, by scoring 6 exhilarating goals in 20 minutes of hockey. The scorers included Ajay Sandhu 2, Chris Brown 3 and Ash Baig 1. The second half saw Kingswinford add a further 4 goals by Hundal, Takhar, Johal & Akhtar. Finding themselves 10-1 up Kingswinford got too relaxed and there were guilt edges misses by Daman Johal & Ajay Sandhu. Oswestry had a mini revival, when sweeper Lubby Ram went off injured, and scored 3 goals in 10 minutes to make the score line respectable. Returning from long-term injury Sarj Takhar commented "That was a great result. I am happy for the team and I am happy to get 10 minutes match time. The last 4 months have been frustrating for me and at one time it seemed my hockey career was over but as Mark Morrison said - it’s the return of the mac and I try...". Man of Match to hat-trick hero Chris Brown.

2nd Team (Match report by Sharm Dhaliwal)
Kingswinford 0 - 5 Pershore

The 2nds entertained high flying Pershore on a cold and wintry November afternoon. Spirits were high and positive before the match, with the team eager to make amends after their last disastrous outing against Stafford. However, once the game started, gravity took over and the 2nds were quickly brought down to earth. We were outplayed, out thought and out fought. Pershore’s first goal came as a result of a free hit for a foul that occurred between the half way and 23m lines that was mysteriously allowed to be taken within the 23m line, catching the defence off guard. When the captain tried approaching the umpire to raise an objection, he was waved away. As decisions continuously went against the home side, frustration took over resulting in the team losing its’ shape and focus. More fuel was added to the fire when overly physical play was not checked. Overall, a very disappointing result, but the 2nds have only themselves to blame. Nevertheless, the 2nds are resilient and proud, and will dust themselves off, lick their wounds and fight their way out of this quagmire. We may have lost the battle but the war is far from over.

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Redditch 10 - 0 Kingswinford

Badgers (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 2 - 3 Wednesbury
Goal scorers: Sophie Tibbetts, Sam George

Report of games played on Sunday 1st November 2009

EH Over 50's Cup (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 5 - 0 Ben Rhydding
Goal scorers: Manjit Sidhu (2), Rajinder Sehmbi, Ranjit Bhadal, Hari Singh

Report of games played on Saturday 31st October 2009

1st Team (Match report by Ashraf Baig)
Kingswinford 6 - 2 Kynoch
Goal scorers: Matt Edwards (3), Harpreet Hundal, Daman Johal, Chris Brown

Kingswinford stunned a strong Kynoch team by scoring 4 goals in the first half of this BodyKraft West Midlands League 2 clash. League toppers took the lead through Matt Edwards after he was set-up by a cross from the right by Daman Johal. Edwards got his second shortly after via a deflected shot. Harpreet Hundal added a third and Daman Johal scored the 4th on the stroke on half time. As with last week K'ford allowed the Opposition into the game in the second half when Kynoch added two well worked goals. However, Edwards & Chris Brown were on hand to score goals 5 & 6 to record an impressive victory for Kingswinford. Man of Match Lubby Ram.

2nd Team (No match report yet)
Stafford 6 - 0 Kingswinford

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 0 - 8 Droitwich

Badgers (Match report by Cole Hickman)
West Bromwich 2 - 4 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Sophie Tibbetts (3), Cole Hickman

Kingswinford turned up at the George Salter High School in West Bromwich with only 10 men. Despite this Kings took charge immediately and within the first 2 minutes Cole Hickman fired home after some great work from winger Sam George. West Brom then replied against the run of play. Kingswinford then bombarded the West Bromwich goal but could not beat an excellent West Bromwich Keeper on top form. With 10 minutes of the half left, centre forward Sophie Tibbetts regained K’ford’s lead with a deft touch at the back post. Just before the break West Brom equalized. After the break Kings continued to bombard the West Brom goal with Tibbetts grabbing two more Goals to complete her Hat-Trick and continue Kingswinford’s unbeaten run so far this season.

Report of games played on Saturday 24th October 2009

1st Team (Match report by Daman Johal)
Pershore 3 - 5 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Matt Edwards (2), Harpreet Hundal (2), Chris Brown

Kingswinford travelled to Pershore and put in their best performance of the season so far. Within 10 minutes Kingswinford were 2-0 up when the combination of Harpreet Hundal & Matt Edwards combined to score two outstanding goals by Edwards. Hundal added goals 3 & 4 through powerfully struck hits at short corners. The second half Kings took their foot off the gas pedal and Pershore scored two counter attack goals. Kings added a 5th through an excellent solo run by AJ Sandhu and a lay-off to Chris Brown, who tucked away low into the left corner. Pershore got their third in the dying seconds of the match. A special mention goes to K'fords defence who were outstanding the first half.
Man of Match Harpreet Hundal.

2nd Team (Match cancelled - Ludlow pulled out of League)
Kingswinford v Ludlow

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Stafford 9 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Mark Stevenson

Badgers (Match report by Cole Hickman)
Kingswinford 5 - 0 Old Halesonians
Goal scorers: Sam George (3), Guneet Uppal, Alex Gutteridge

Kingswinford showed great teamwork and skill to beat local rivals Old Hales in this heavily competitive fixture. Both teams battled hard from the start but a 10 man Kingswinford side soon set up camp in the Old Hales half. Old Hales defended well but Kingswinford could not be denied and with an excellent display of passing finished by winger Sam George K’ford took the lead. Minutes later Guneet Uppal added his name to the score sheet making K’ford 2-0 up at half time. After the break Kingswinford continued to dominate play but Old Hales had rearranged their defence and were able to hold K’ford out for 20 minutes. In the last 15 winger Sam George Struck again with a great strike for top D. Centre forward Alex Gutteridge then forced the ball over the line from a goal mouth scramble to allow Kingswinford to increase their lead. With 5 minutes remaining George went on a mazy run beating 4 players and thee keeper to claim his hat trick and to cement K’ford victory. Captain Tim Sanders commented “Kings deserved there win today; they played well and should be proud of themselves”.
Man of the match- Sam George & Alex Gutteridge

Report of games played on Saturday 17th October 2009

1st Team (Match report by Sarj Virdee)
Kingswinford 6 - 1 Barlaston
Goal scorers: Matt Edwards (2), Ajay Sandhu, Harpreet Hundal, Azad Akhtar, Daman Johal

Excellent win by a very strong Kingswinford XI. Debutant Matt Edwards scored a brace and won man of the match award in this exciting fixture. Barlaston gave K'ford a scare early on in the match when veteran keeper Sarj Virdee was required to save from close range at 0-0. However Kingswinford took the lead shortly after through Akhtar and then controlled the match there after. Skipper Sonny Matharu said "the team is getting better & better and apart from Takhar & Gavi who are injured, I had a full squad. Next week is an especially tough match with League toppers Pershore as I have a number of players on holiday".

2nd Team (No match report yet)
Barlaston 3 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Kuldip Randhawa

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 5 - 0 Kidderminster
Goal scorers: Dean Holyoake, Tom Hickman, Tom Reed, Lubby Ram (2)

Badgers (Match cancelled due to lack of players)
Lichfield v Kingswinford

Report of game played on Sunday 11th October 2009

EH Over 40's Cup (No Match report yet)
Charnwood Mountsorrel 1 - 3 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Ranjit Bhadal, Lubby Ram, Ravi Johal

Report of games played on Saturday 10th October 2009

1st Team (No match)

2nd Team (Match report by Sharm Dhaliwal)
Kingswinford 7 - 2 Kidderminster
Goal scorers: Ravi Johal (3), Kuldip Randhawa (2), Richard Lloyd (2)

K’ford started their second league match nervously with the painful memories of the previous week still fresh in the team’s minds. A typical poacher’s goal by the evergreen Ravi Johal gave the home side the lead only for it to be cruelly taken away by an equaliser from Kidderminster, who drew the goalkeeper out of position before coolly slotting the ball into an empty goal. However, the seconds are made of sterner stuff. The home side then upped the ante and produced some scintillating hockey to score two more goals to go in at half time 3-1 up. On the menu for the second half was more of the same, with the final score 7-2. A special mention for Richard Lloyd who scored two goals playing as a forward for the first time, and veteran Kuldip Randhawa who chipped in with a brace. However, man of the match has to be old twinkle toes himself, Ravi Johal who got his first hat trick of the season.

3rd Team (No match report yet)
Kingswinford 1 - 4 Old Silhillians
Goal scorer: Dulla Sandhu

Badgers (Match report by Cole Hickman)
Sutton Coldfield 1 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Cole Hickman

Kingswinford arrived at Sutton Coldfield’s new pitch on a sunny autumn day with only eight players. Thankfully Sutton had extra players and lent K’ford a goalkeeper and a defender so the game could take place. Both teams battled hard for the first half with none managing to break through the opponents defence the game continued in this fashion until ten minutes before the end when Cole Hickman beat 4 defenders to flick the ball into the top right corner. With 6 minutes to go Sutton equalised against the run of play. Captain Tim sanders said “It said a lot for the team when we are disappointed not to win when we only have 10 men”.
Man of the match - Cole Hickman.

Report of game played on Sunday 4th October 2009

EH Under 18's Cup (No Match report yet)
Kingswinford 0 - 11 Olton & West Warwick

Report of games played on Saturday 3rd October 2009

1st Team (Match report by Sarj Virdee)
Kingswinford 5 - 1 Bloxwich
Goal scorers: Ajay Sandhu (2), Ash Baig, Harpreet Hundal, Daman Johal

Kingswinford were under pressure from the off in this exciting West Mids League 2 clash. Super Veteran Sati Takhar made two excellent tackles when the Bloxwich forward was clean through to keep the score 0-0. It was 20 minutes before K'ford got a foothold in the match with Ajay Sandhu capitalising on a mistake by the Bloxwich sweeper. Sandhu added a 2nd goal 5 minutes later and then laid on a goal for Ash Baig just before half time. Kingswinford fully controlled the 2nd half with goals from Harpreet Hundal & Daman Johal. Sarj Virdee "It was great to have Sati in defence today, I requested last week that he play another season in 1st’s and with his performance today he did not disappoint. Sati & Ajay were brilliant for us today". Man of Match Sati Takhar.

2nd Team (Match report by Sharm Dhaliwal)
Bloxwich 4 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Ravi Johal

The start of the new season brought renewed hope and expectations, but sadly with the seconds’ it all ended in a heap on the side of the pitch. Bloxwich started swiftly putting the K’ford defence under pressure right from the offset, but the K’ford defence stood defiant. Just as we started to find our way, we let in 2 soft goals from poorly defended short corners. All this in the first 20minutes! For the remainder of the half, Kingswinford were camped in the opposition half but could not get past the outstanding goalkeeper. K’ford managed to pull back a goal in the second half. At this point, Kingswinford were dominating possession and were constantly camped in the opposition half. However, in our pursuit for goals, we were caught out by 2 breakaway goals.

3rd Team (Match report by Tom Hickman)
Pershore 4 - 0 Kingswinford

Kingswinford 3rd’s kicked off their new season full of hope away to Pershore. Pershore took the lead two minutes into the game and then doubled it 8 minutes later. Kingswinford then started to take control and had some decent attempts on goal but were stopped by some good defending and superb saves by the keeper. In the second half K’ford continued to attack but were twice caught on the break to make the final score 4-0 to Pershore.

Badgers (Match report by Cole Hickman)
Kingswinford 4 - 1 Wolverhampton
Goal scorers: Sophie Tibbetts, Cole Hickman (3)

Kingswinford showed that they are the team to beat in the first game of the season against a strong Wolverhampton side with an excellent display of teamwork, skill and passing .Sophie Tibbetts opened the scoring within the first ten minutes with a deft touch at the post from a deflected shot from Guneet Uppal. Cole Hickman then added his first with a strike from top –D after some excellent work from Sam George. Just before half time Wolverhampton broke through Kingswinford’s defence to pull back a goal. After the break Hickman added goals 3 and 4 to complete his hat-trick. Wolverhampton threw everything they had at K’ford in the remaining 10 minutes but were kept out by some great tackles by Jon Hall. Captain Tim Sanders said ”I am pleased with the team’s performance today I hope they can keep it up for the rest of the season”. Player of the match: Sophie Tibbetts.

Report of game played on Sunday 27th September 2009

EH Over 50's Cup (No match report yet)
Old Wulfrunians 0 - 4 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Manjit Sidhu (2), Sati Takhar, Ranjit Bhadal

Report of games played on Saturday 26th September 2009

1st Team (Match report by Sarj Virdee)
Barford Tigers 2nd 4 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Ajay Sandhu

Kingswinford faced a strong Barford 2nd X1 without the injured pair of Hundal and Takhar. However Kingswinford held a young Barford Tigers team to a 1-1 scoreline at half time when Ajay Sandhu slotted home an excellent counter attack move. The second half was a different story with Barford scoring 3 brilliant pass and move goals. Veteran keeper Sarj Virdee made a string of saves to keep the score respectable. Virdee commented "We need our forwards to take their chances; in previous years we had Dalbir Sidhu who loved playing & scoring against Barford. We missed Sarj Takhar today and without him the other forwards must chip in with goals otherwise we are placing too much pressure on Ajay & Chris Brown. For next week hopefully Harpreet Hundal & Sati Takhar will return to give us much required strength & experience". Man of match Dulla Sandhu.

2nd Team (No Match report yet)
Barford Tigers 3rd 3 - 3 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Kuldip Randhawa (2), Ravi Johal

3rd Team (No Match report yet)
Kingswinford 4 - 4 Barford Tigers 4th
Goal scorers: Harry Gill, Pummi Johal, Chris Rawlings, Scott Afzal

Badgers (No Match report yet)
Kingswinford 1 - 2 Barford Tigers
Goal scorer: Cole Hickman

Report of games played on Saturday 19th September 2009

1st Team (Match report by Sunny Uppal)
Kingswinford 2 - 5 Pershore
Goal scorer: Ajay Sandhu (2)

Kingswinford gave Pershore, who will challenge them in the league, a two goal lead in this friendly following mistakes by Hari Singh & Tim Sanders within 10 minutes of the push back. The remainder of the first half saw Kings camped in the Pershore half and teenager Sunny Uppal missed two guilt edge chances from close range. Pershore added a superb 3rd goal just before the break. In the second half it was the AJ Sandhu show. Chris Brown won a penalty flick which was superbly converted by Sandhu. Minutes later Sandhu scored a brilliant solo goal when he skipped past 4 defenders and slotted past an on rushing goal keeper. Unfortunately the K'ford attack was lame and Sandhu's efforts went to waste as chances went begging. Pershore added goals 4 and 5 as the Kings defenders tired. Skipper Sonny Matharu “This won't do in the League, we were poor with our defending today and in attack did not do ourselves justice. I am still missing vital players and luck has conspired against us with injuries to key players such as Takhar & Hundal. The youngsters today lacked belief in front of goal'. Man of match AJ Sandhu - excellent solo effort.

2nd Team (No Match report yet)
Pershore 3 - 3 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Andy Cutler (2), Ravi Johal

3rd Team (No Match)

Badgers (Match report by Cole Hickman)
Kingswinford 9 - 0 Old Wulfrunians
Goal scorers: Cole Hickman (4), Sophie Tibbetts (2), Guneet Uppal (2), Sam George

Kingswinford started this pre season friendly well on a warm afternoon at the Dell Stadium. Sophie Tibbetts started the scoring 3 minutes in with a deft touch at the back post after a through ball by Cole Hickman. Hickman then opened his own account with a strike from top-D. Hickman then added a third after breaking through the Old Wulfrunians defence. Sophie Tibbetts then added her second with a touch finishing off a well worked short corner. Hickman then completed his hat trick. Uppal then drilled in a shot from top-D to make it 6-0 to K’ford. Captain Tim Sanders then rearranged his team to give his regular defenders an opportunity to get on the score sheet. Both Callum Elcock and Jon Hall regular right and left back came close but were denied by the keeper. After Half time Hickman went on a mazy run from defensive midfield slotting home coolly for the seventh. Uppal then added his second with a well placed drive. Winger Sam George then added his name to the score sheet with an excellent reverse flick. K’ford went all out for their tenth but were denied by some excellent saves and some great defending. Captain Sanders said “I was pleased with my team performance today and all our hard work in training showed”. Man of the match - Sam George.

Report of games played on Saturday 12th September 2009

1st Team (Match report by Sonny Matharu)
Kingswinford 3 - 1 Old Halesonians
Goal scorers: Taz Ahmed (2), Ajay Sandhu

Kingswinford welcomed local rivals Old Hales to a sun drenched Dell in the first warm-up game of season 2009/10. This was a typical pre-league friendly played at a slow-high-slow tempo. Kingswinford took the lead through a wonderfully worked short corner when AJ Sandhu squared to Taz Ahmed to slot home. Old Hales replied instantly when Keeper Tim Sanders, who was wonderful throughout the match, but failed to save a weak shot. K'ford restored their lead at the start of the second half when Kaz Purewal won a penalty flick which was converted by Sandhu. Daman Johal then set up Taz Ahmed for his third goal to finish the game off. Old Hales attacked in numbers but were thwarted by Dulla, Azad & Richard Lloyd in defence. Skipper Sonny "That was an excellent win considering I am missing Harpreet Hundal (holiday), Chris Brown (holiday), Sarj Takhar (injured), Gavi Singh (holiday) & Ashraf Baig. However I am expecting a high standard of performance from all players who are selected in the 1sts - Richard Lloyd was prime example of this today".

2nd Team (No Match report yet)
Kingswinford 2 - 4 Old Halesonians
Goal scorers: Richard Turner, Andy Cutler

3rd Team (No Match report yet)
Dudley Knights 3 - 2 Kingswinford
Goal scorers: Harry Gill, Cole Hickman

Badgers (No Match report yet)
Old Halesonians 1 - 1 Kingswinford
Goal scorer: Guneet Uppal