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19th July 2006

Summer League finals Day

All welcome. Sat 29th July..limited free beer!

Please call Sports Club to confirm times..01473 251143

28th June 2006

Jo Ellis to face Australia and Argentina in World Cup warm up

England coach Danny Kerry announced a core squad of 13, including Jo, has been selected for the three matches on 29 June (7pm), and 2 (12.00pm) and 3 July (7pm)at Reading.

Danny Kerry, Head Coach for England women, commented “The upcoming test matches against the World’s number 2 (Argentina) and 3 (Australia) ranked teams provides us with an excellent opportunity to continue to benchmark ourselves against the top echelons of World Hockey and begin our World Cup preparations in earnest following the conclusion of the English Hockey League (EHL).”

Tickets for all three matches have been selling well, with full houses expected.

28th June 2006

Ipswich legends line up for action

Sandie Lister, Vickey Dixon, Annette Strange and Karla Waddleton are all part of an East squad that will play in the inaugural Womens Regional Veterans tournament, to be held at Cannock HC on Saturday & Sunday 1,2 July.

The tournament looks to build on the popularity of the Womens Veterans Club tournament for players aged 35 or over. It is the brainchild of Deb Wilkes, the hardworking manager of the Owls team, who is a member of the England Hockey Veterans Group. The tournament will be used to select players for an England over 45's side to play in an international invitational tournament in Germany during the Mens World Cup.

Ipswich players make up a majority of the East team and with Lister also coaching and captaining the team the East will be looking for a good set of results.

13th June 2006

Will Hearne gets England U16 call up

The squad was selected following the 4-Nations tournament in Nuremburg at Easter and a training camp at Lilleshall over the Whit weekend.

David Bell makes a welcome return having missed out on Nuremburg with a broken finger. Peter Jackson and James Bailey, both Under 15, are new additions to the group.

The squad has two training camps at Belle Vue and Loughborough University at the end of June before they fly to Dublin on July 8th, where they face pool matches against Spain, Italy and hosts Ireland. To see the full match schedule for this event, click here.

12th June 2006

Mixed team are National Plate Champions

In their first season together the Ipswich mixed side were Crowned national Plate Champions.

Mixed Plate National Champions 2006

Back Row L to R : Will Fulker, Ben Gallagher, Toby Lever, Tony Burch, Sam Tyler, Asif Rais, Geoff Reed

Front Row: L to R: Emma Millar, Issy Sheldrake, Kathryn Wrinch, Lizzy Aldous (Cpt), Annie Brosher, Lucy Gallagher

Their semi final against Spencer was a close affair in the first half with the score level at 2-2 but Ipswich stepped up the pace and ran out comfortable 4-2 winners.

Sunday saw them face Holcombe and Ipswich expected a tough test from the national League club. Starting very well the Suffolk team just had too much ability for their rivals and ran out 8-0 victors.

With a mixture of 1st, 2nd and 3rd team players there was a great spirit in the side and the weekend was enjoyed by all.

A superb first season for the mixed team and a Massive amount of credit must go to captain Lizzy Aldous who put in a lot of hard work.