Former national hockey captain, Kwandwane Browne, and his Hampstead & Westminster club ended the 100 percent winning record of Surbiton with a 2-1 triumph in the England Hockey League Men’s Premier Division on Saturday.
Surbiton was protecting a 100 percent record going into the visit of Hampstead & Westminster who was coming off a 5-0 loss to Old Georgians and took the lead through Ben Boon on 46 minutes.
However, the advantage was short-lived as the visitors hit back instantly, with Matt Guise-Brown equalising four minutes later.
Hampstead & Westminster then stole all three points when Rupert Shipperley struck just before the hour mark to hand Hampstead & Westminster their first ever Premier Division victory at Sugden Road and end the hosts’ winning run at seven games.
The win was the fifth in eight matches for Hampstead & Westminster to stay fourth with 17 points from eight matches, seven adrift of leaders Wimbledon who has played a match more, while Surbiton sits second with 21 points from eight matches, level with Old Georgians.
Browne and his clubmates, who are still without T&T international Teague Marcano returns to action on Saturday against seventh-placed Brooklands Manchester University (six points) and then fifth-placed Oxted (te points) on November 28 before the winter break in the season.
A memorable weekend for Browne capped more than 400 times by T&T, and his teammates continued on Sunday as they dispatched Durham University 4-0.
Guise-Brown was back on target, while Matthew Ramshaw, James Oates, and Joseph Sharp also found the net for the fourth-placed outfit.
In the Conference Midlands, Dillete Gilkes-coached St Albans battled to a 3-3 draw with Lichfield.
After eight matches, St Albans now sits fourth on the ten-club table with 11 points, the same as fifth-placed Loughborough Town while Harbone 1 leads with 22 points, two ahead of Barford Tigers with Lichfield back in sixth with ten points.