T&T men’s hock­ey play­er Teague Mar­cano end­ed with a tour­na­ment-high 31 goals from eight match­es, eight more than his near­est ri­val in lead­ing South­gate to the top spot in the Eng­land Hock­ey League Su­per 6s In­door Cham­pi­onships Men’s Di­vi­sion One com­pe­ti­tion on Jan­u­ary 14 and pro­mo­tion to the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion for 2025.

This af­ter the 23-year-old Mar­cano fol­lowed up his first week­end of 17 goals in four match­es with a fur­ther 14 goals in four match­es last week­end, in­clu­sive of three hat-tricks as South­gate fin­ished the nine-club round-robin com­pe­ti­tion with 22 points from a pos­si­ble 24, six more than fel­low pro­mot­ed team, the sec­ond placed Can­ter­bury, the for­mer club of South­gate's play­er/coach, and for­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Kwand­wane Browne, who missed the fi­nal week­end of match­es due to his com­mit­ments as as­sis­tant coach of the Eng­land men's out­door team which is cur­rent­ly con­test­ing Paris Olympic Qual­i­fiers in Oman.

Last year, Mar­cano was named the tour­na­ment’s lead­ing scor­er with 30 goals, 19 in the di­vi­sion­al round play­offs af­ter he fired South­gate to one of the two pro­mo­tion spots in the six-club Eng­land Hock­ey League Adult Su­per 6s In­door Cham­pi­onships Men’s Na­tion­al Di­vi­sion Two.

On Sat­ur­day, in their top-of-the-ta­ble clash with the fel­low pro­mot­ed club, Bee­ston, Mar­cano picked up from where he left off the week pri­or with five goals (7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 17th) in their 12-5 tri­umph to take a two points leads on the stand­ings, which they nev­er re­lin­quished af­ter­wards.

The trio of cap­tain John Ster­li­ni, Matthew Ramshaw, and Ro­han Bhuhi added two goals each, and Si­mon Walk­er notched the oth­er while Bee­ston cap­tain Gareth Grif­fith had two to lead his team with Hen­ry Croft, William Pren­tice, and Ben Collinson got the oth­ers.

Next up was a clash against Lough­bor­ough Stu­dents, and Mar­cano was once again amongst the goals with a hat-trick in the third, tenth, and 35th min­utes while Ster­li­ni and Bhuhi scored a beaver-trick each, and Rob Schilling, the oth­er.

For Lough­bor­ough Stu­dents, To­by Gayler, Dan Hamil­ton, and Jack Webb scored one each.

Mar­cano and South­gate con­tin­ued their on­slaught on Sun­day as they over­pow­ered Oxted 13-7 with Ster­li­ni lead­ing the way with six goals while Mar­cano and Bhuhi added hat-tricks with Ramshaw get­ting the oth­er in the 29th.

On the op­po­site side of the field, Char­lie Ax­ford scored a hand­ful for Oxted with Michael Roy­den-Turn­er and Cameron Heald sup­port­ing with one each.

In their fi­nal match on Sun­day, Mar­cano again scored a hat-trick as they romped to a 7-4 come-from-be­hind win against the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ex­eter while Ramshaw, Robert Gill, Bhuhi, and Ster­li­ni added one apiece in their tri­umph.

Ja­cob Pay­ton led the Ex­eter with a hat-trick of his own with Dy­lan Par­ry al­so on tar­get in the 31st.

Mean­while, Mar­cano and his team­mates which in­cludes for­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Kwand­wane Browne, 45, the clubs' play­er/coach will now shift their fo­cus to the Eng­land Hock­ey League Men’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion Top Six which flicks off on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 10.

The tour­na­ment will fea­ture Wim­ble­don, Hol­combe, South­gate, Sur­bi­tion, Old Geor­gians, and Hamp­stead & West­min­ster, the for­mer club of both T&T play­ers.

This af­ter South­gate, mak­ing a re­turn to the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion, end­ed the first half of the league sea­son in the sixth spot with five wins from 11 match­es for 16 points

Old Geor­gians lead the 12-club ta­ble with 30 points, the same as Sur­biton, but with a su­pe­ri­or goal-dif­fer­ence of plus-51 to plus-47 fol­lowed by Hol­combe with 27, Wim­ble­don with 24, and Hamp­stead & West­min­ster, fifth with 21.

Fi­nal stand­ings

Po­si­tion*Teams*P*W*D*L*GF*GA*GD*Pts

1*South­gate*8*7*1*0*20*80*35*45*22

2*Can­ter­bury*8*6*0*2*49*40*9*18

3*Bee­ston*8*5*1*2*46*37*9*16

4*Brook­lands MU*8*4*0*4**42*53*-11*12

5*Univ. of Ex­eter*8*3*2*3**53*50*3*11

6*Rep­ton*8*3*1*4**36*36*0*10

7*Oxted*8*3*0*5*46*55*-9*9

8*L'gh­bor­ough Stu­dents*8*1*1*6*32*46*-14*4

9*West Herts*8*0*2*6*34*66*-32*2

Lead­ing scor­ers

31 - Teague Mar­cano (South­gate) 16 field goals, 12 penal­ty-cor­ners, three penal­ty strokes

23 - Char­lie Ax­ford (Oxted)

22 - Ja­cob Pay­ton (Uni­ver­si­ty of Ex­eter)

17 - Ja­cob Pay­ton (Uni­ver­si­ty of Ex­eter)

16 - John Ster­li­ni (South­gate)

14 - Matthew Ramshaw (South­gate), Julius Von Fal­ck (Rep­ton)

13 -Daniel Cox (West Herts)