T&T duo, Teague Marcano and Kwandwane Browne both failed to get among the goals as Hampstead & Westminster ended the 2021/2022 England Men’s Hockey League Premier Division “Top Six” competition with a 4-2 loss to dethroned champions Surbiton on Saturday.
Strikes from James Gall, Alex Williams, Ben Boon and Luke Taylor saw Surbiton seal victory while Rhodri Furlong and Sam French were on target for Hampstead & Westminster.
With the loss, Hampstead & Westminster ended in the fourth spot on the table with 32 points from 20 matches, while Surbiton ended third with 42 points.
Wimbledon sealed second place in the table and European hockey next season with a 3-2 victory over champions Old Georgians.
David Condon, Liam Ansell and Ben Arnold—in his final match for the club—struck for Wimbledon to see them remain ahead of Surbiton in the Top 6, with two goals from Sam Ward not enough for Old Georgians to finish the season with a victory.
And in the other Top 6 match Holcombe picked up a dramatic 7-4 victory over East Grinstead led by braces from both Tim Guise-Brown and Jake Owens.
The trio of Dan Edwards, Craig Wild and Greg Nolan handed Holcombe victory in the 11-goal thriller with Luke Holland scoring twice for East Grinstead, with further goals coming from Finlay Boothroyd and Jarryd Jones.
Last January, both T&T men were part of the Hampstead & Westminster team which fell to a 4-2 defeat against Wimbledon in their all-London England Hockey League Super6s Men’s Premier Division Indoor semifinal at the Copper Box Arena, with Marcano scoring 16 goals in the competition.
Marcano nets in fifth place EHL League Rankings Cup win
Before the final round of matches last weekend, Marcano was on the scoresheet while Browne was influential throughout in helping Hampstead & Westminster to a fifth-place finish at the 2022 Terrass Euro Hockey League (EHL) League Ranking Cup thanks to a 7-1 victory over Three Rock Rovers in Spain on April 18.
French and Matthew Guise-Brown got braces for the London side, with Matthew Ramshaw having opened the scoring and Rupert Shipperley and Marcano also got on the scoresheet.
When the tournament served off, Marcano netted the late equaliser for his club with one second left on the clock in a 3-3 regulation-time draw with Germany’s Mannheimer HC, the side who knocked them out of the Knockout last-16 round of last season’s Ranking Cup in October on a shootout.
And it was the same outcome again at Club Egara, Spain as Mannheimer again triumphed via the penalty shoot-out 5-4 with Marcano, first scoring in the first-five penalties which ended 3-3 before he had his sudden-death effort saved by Mannheim keeper Lukas Stumpf.