South Berkshire Hockey Club awards night

This Saturday saw South Berkshire Hockey Club swap hockey sticks and deep heat rub, for bow ties and channel No 5 for the annual awards night ,this year taking place at the Hilton St. Annes Manor Hotel . Over 120 Members came decked out in their finest attire to see who would win this years awards.

The first award of the night ,that of Ladies Young Player of the Year ,went to Ladies 1st team player Bello Pio, who with 12 goals helped the ladies win promotion .

Next up was the Men’s Young Player of the season ,and it was with no surprise that it went to Pete Swan of the Men’s 1st team ,who despite missing the last four games of the season with a broken thumb ,has been quite outstanding .

The next award was for Ladies Most improved Player . The award this year going to Grace Bull of the Ladies 2nd team.

The award for Men’s most improved player went to Ajinkya Gothoskar ( AJ ) of the Men’s 6th team.

Next awards were for top goal scorers , with Eve Kelly ( 14 goals ) for the Ladies 2nd team and Duncan Clarke (31 goals ) for the Men’s 3rd and 4th teams winning the honours.

The goal keepers were next to be celebrated with the most clean sheets of the season. Lyndall Davitt ( 9 clean sheets) for the Ladies and Tom Nance ( 5 clean sheets) for the Men ,won the awards.

The main awards of the season were next, First up the Ladies player of the year .

With the crowd building up the tension with a drum roll, the award went to Ladies 1st team player Sarah Kelly .

This proved to be highly entertaining with each skipper thanking their team and coaches with some lively banter and kind words .

The penultimate award of the evening was for Team of the Year . This could only really go to one team ,who made this quite apparent during the night with cries of campioni been sung out from the corner they were sitting in.

The award going to the Men’s 4th team for winning their league and scoring 99 goals and only dropping 4 points all season .

The last award of the evening was that of Club Person of the Year ,with the drum roll of the crowd reaching an ever increasing level ,the award went to Tom King. A well deserved award for Tom as every week he coaches the Ladies 2nd team ,plays for the Men’s first team and every second week umpires a match at home .