Trinidad and To­ba­go se­nior men’s hock­ey play­er Teague Mar­cano scored his sev­enth goal of the sea­son in help­ing Hol­combe to a re­sound­ing 6-0 blank­ing of Cardiff & Met in the Eng­land Men’s Hock­ey League Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at Hol­combe last Sat­ur­day (Novem­n­er 7).

Hol­combe opened the scor­ing in the 11th minute through a field goal from Ro­han Bhuhi be­fore Mar­cano scored from a penal­ty cor­ner in the 27th, which was fol­lowed by an­oth­er penal­ty cor­ner item from Michael Roy­den-Turn­er in the 29th for a 3-0 lead.

Robert Field then made it 4-0 in the 34th minute be­fore Alexan­der Chi­ho­ta ex­tend­ed the ad­van­tage to 4-0 in the 52nd minute, with Matthew Ramshaw fir­ing in the sixth and fi­nal item in the 55th to the de­light of their fans at the Hol­combe Pitch.

With the lop­sided vic­to­ry, Hol­combe, coached by for­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Kwand­wane Browne, with com­pa­tri­ot Dil­let Gilkes, an­oth­er ex-T&T play­er, as his as­sis­tant, im­proved to 12 points from eight match­es on the 12 club stand­ings and in the sixth and fi­nal spot to qual­i­fy for the ‘Top Six’ play­offs. one point ahead of Read­ing.

At the top of the ta­ble is Sur­biton with a max­i­mum of 24 points, five more than de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Old Geor­gians with 19, and Wim­ble­don in the third spot with 18, and the pair of Hamp­stead & West­min­ster and Raed­ing next with 13 points each in the fourth and fifth spots, re­spec­tive­ly.

The trio of Bee­ston, Oxted and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ex­eter have sev­en points each in the eighth, ninth and tenth po­si­tions with Cardiff & Met (two) and Bow­down (one) in the bot­tom two spots. Next up for Hol­combe is a home clash with Bow­don on Sat­ur­day, No­vem­ber 14.