Both Queen's Park Crick­et Club's (QPCC) cham­pi­onship (men) and over-35 (vet­er­ans) teams de­liv­ered out­stand­ing per­for­mances, fin­ish­ing run­ners-up in their re­spec­tive di­vi­sions in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 26th Banks In­ter­na­tion­al Hock­ey Fes­ti­val, which was held at var­i­ous venues across Bar­ba­dos. The week-long tour­na­ment fea­tured com­pe­ti­tion in cat­e­gories of men's, women's, vet­er­ans and mixed teams. Fol­low­ing an open­ing day 5-0 rout over de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Do­min­ion in the Men's Di­vi­sion, QPCC went on to win a fur­ther two match­es and draw one to qual­i­fy for the se­mi-fi­nals. The team went on to meet an­oth­er T&T team, T&T De­fence Force in a match which QPCC won 6-3. QPCC then went up against a stiffer test in All Stars, a lo­cal Bar­ba­di­an club which in­clud­ed two play­ers, not on their ros­ter but al­lowed to fea­ture due to the tour­na­ment reg­u­la­tions. With­in 10 min­utes, QPCC were 2-0 down, but man­aged to pull one back by the 15th minute thanks to a neat fin­ish by young­ster Evan Far­rell. The score re­mained 2-1 un­til half time. Soon af­ter the match re­sumed, All Stars ex­tend­ed their lead with an­oth­er goal, mak­ing a come­back for QPCC even more dif­fi­cult.

QPCC left it late but did turn on the pres­sure with 10 min­utes left to go, with Jery Bell even­tu­al­ly com­ing up with an an­swer in the 65th minute to keep the match alive at 3-2. Af­ter sev­er­al at­tempts on goal, three of which smash­ing the up­right, QPCC were out at the end of the match, un­able to find the equal­iz­er, with All Stars keep­ing the one-goal ad­van­tage. The vet­er­ans al­so had a suc­cess­ful stint through the group stage, win­ning two match­es with one loss, ad­vanc­ing on the top on the virtue of "most goals". QPCC's vet­er­ans were placed against in­vit­ed Swiss op­po­si­tion- The Fly­ing Hop­pers and won the match con­vinc­ing­ly, 7-2. The QPCC team, how­ev­er, got a work­out in the fi­nal against an­oth­er lo­cal team Mount Gay Maples, con­ced­ing five unan­swered goals. The team were suf­fer­ing with some in­juries as was ev­i­dent, with a cou­ple play­ers hav­ing played 11 match­es in on­ly five days. The two fi­nals, how­ev­er, did con­clude an out­stand­ing tour for the "Parkites" in the com­pe­ti­tion which saw 42 teams from the host coun­try Bar­ba­dos, T&T, Unit­ed States, Eng­land, Cana­da and Switzer­land. Along with All Stars (men) and Mount Gay Maple (vet­er­ans), A Badd Con­nec­tion (women), Sen­try Se­cu­ri­ty Rock­ets (mixed) were the win­ners in their re­spec­tive di­vi­sions.