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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Marcano fires Southgate to Division Two Indoor promotion hunt

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NIgel Simon
923 days ago
20230114
T&T international hockey player Teague Marcano, second from right, goes past a  Fareham player while teammate and former T&T standout Kwandwane Browne (background) look on during their match in the England Hockey League Adult Super 6s Indoor Championships Men's Division Two  South at the University of the West of England, on Sunday. Marcano scored a beaver trick, his fourth in five matches to lead Southgate to an 11-3 win. PHOTO: SOUTHGATE.

T&T international hockey player Teague Marcano, second from right, goes past a Fareham player while teammate and former T&T standout Kwandwane Browne (background) look on during their match in the England Hockey League Adult Super 6s Indoor Championships Men's Division Two South at the University of the West of England, on Sunday. Marcano scored a beaver trick, his fourth in five matches to lead Southgate to an 11-3 win. PHOTO: SOUTHGATE.

Courtesy SOUTHGATE

T&T in­ter­na­tion­al hock­ey play­er Teague Mar­cano scored a joint league-best 19 goals with Tom Mi­nall of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol, in­clu­sive of four beaver-trick to lead South­gate Hock­ey Club to the top spot in the Eng­land Hock­ey League Adult Su­per 6s In­door Cham­pi­onships Men's Di­vi­sion Two at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West of Eng­land, last week­end.

Play­ing in the six-club Men's Di­vi­sion Two South round-robin se­ries, Mar­cano scored a beaver trick in South­gate's open­ing 14-2 maul­ing of Tro­jans on Sat­ur­day, fol­lowed by an­oth­er four-goal dis­play in his team's 10-5 de­feat of his for­mer club, St Al­bans to end Sat­ur­day with a per­fect 2-0 record.

Mar­cano, who has al­so net­ted a league-best 14 goals to lead South­gate to a per­fect 9-0 record and 27 points at the halfway stage of the Eng­lish Hock­ey League Di­vi­sion One South Out­door com­pe­ti­tion, picked up where he left off on Sat­ur­day by scor­ing a beaver trick, his third in as many match­es as South­gate with for­mer T&T in­ter­na­tion­al Kwand­wane Browne serv­ing as play­er/coach al­so on tar­get as they bat­tled past the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol 7-5.

He then net­ted a hat­trick in a 9-4 de­feat of Guil­ford be­fore end­ing off his tour­na­ment, with his fourth beaver trick in their 11-3 trash­ing of Fare­ham for a per­fect 5-0 record and 15 points, five clear of fel­low qual­i­fiers to the Di­vi­sion Two Na­tion­al play­offs, Guild­ford, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol.

Over­all, Mar­cano's 19 goals in­clud­ed ten field goals, six penal­ty cor­ners, and three penal­ty strokes with the next best con­trib­u­tor for South­gate be­ing club cap­tain John Ster­li­ni with 11 and Charles Hamil­ton with nine.

The trio of South­gate, Guild­ford and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol will be joined by the top three clubs in the Men's Di­vi­sion Two North six-team round-robin se­ries for the Na­tion­al Di­vi­sion Two di­vi­sion, where those games will be played on Jan­u­ary, 21 and 22.

Com­ment­ing on his per­for­mances last week­end, the 22-year-old Mar­cano said it was pleas­ing to see that he and his team­mates were able to car­ry their win­ning mo­men­tum from their Out­door sea­son in­to the In­door com­pe­ti­tion.

He added, "It's ba­si­cal­ly the same team and group of play­ers we are us­ing in the In­door that have played so far in the Out­door sea­son and we are not re­al­ly a spe­cialised In­door team, so for us to have those re­sults were en­cour­ag­ing."

Dur­ing the first part of the Eng­land Hock­ey League Di­vi­sion One South sea­son, South­gate man­aged to win all nine of their match­es to lead the ten-club ta­ble with a max­i­mum of 27 points, and Mar­cano who is al­so the lead­ing scor­er for the club in the Out­door com­pe­ti­tion with 14 goals, said the team is us­ing the In­door tour­na­ment to help sharp­en their game ahead of the re­sump­tion of the Out­door cam­paign.

"The Out­door sea­son re­sumes the first week­end in Feb­ru­ary, and while we are hap­py to get the wins and con­test for a chance at pro­mo­tion, we are al­ways mind­ful that these match­es al­so pro­vide the chance for us to im­prove our skills set ahead."

Look­ing ahead to the six-team In­door Na­tion­al Di­vi­sion Two In­door com­pe­ti­tion from which the top two teams will gain pro­mo­tion to Di­vi­sion One, Mar­cano said he was con­fi­dent of South­gate fin­ish­ing amongst the qual­i­fiers.

"It's just for us to con­tin­ue the great work we have been do­ing as a team, play­ing sol­id hock­ey, tak­ing our scor­ing chances, and lim­it­ing the op­po­si­tion to as few op­por­tu­ni­ties as pos­si­ble," end­ed Mar­cano.

South­gate In­door Hock­ey re­sults:

Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 7:

South­gate 14 (Teague Mar­cano 3rd, 26th, 33rd, 34th, Charles Hamil­ton 6th, 14th, 16th, 23rd, John Ster­li­ni 8th, 17th, 38th, Karan So­fat 5th, 39th, Rob Schilling 25th) vs Tro­jans 2 (Math­ias Lesti­enne 15th, 22nd).

South­gate 10 (Teague Mar­cano 1st pen, 8th pen, 9th, 19th, John Ster­li­ni 1st, 2nd, Charles Hamil­ton 23rd, 25th, Karan So­fat 12th, Jack Mid­dle­ton 26th) vs St Al­bans 5 (Matthew Dav­ey 16th, 19th, Fred­dy Cooke 5th, Thomas Schan­schieef 24th, Paul Coop­er 39th)

Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 8:

South­gate 7 (Teague Mar­cano 1st, 13th, 25th, 34th, John Ster­li­ni 16th, Dan West 39th, Kwand­wane Browne 40th) vs Uni­ver­si­ty of Bris­tol 5 (Tom Mi­nall 11th, 12th, 17th, 24th, Will Jones 30th)

South­gate 9 (John Ster­li­ni 1st, 2nd, 40th, Teague Mar­cano 10th, 20th, 28th, Jack Mid­dle­ton 12th, 40th, Charles Hamil­ton 16th) vs Guild­ford 4 (Jon­ny Haynes 35th, 37th, Cameron Bak­er 18th, Ja­cob Plum­mer 39th)

South­gate 11 (Teague Mar­cano 10th, 22nd pen, 30th, 37th, John Ster­li­ni 4th, 29th, Karan So­fat 6th, 31st, Charles Hamil­ton 27th, 35th, Dan West 2nd) vs Fare­ham 3 (Fer­gus Jack­son 12th, Fin Cole­man 16th, Chris­t­ian Mc Ken­na 37th)

Fi­nal Di­vi­sion Two stand­ings:

South:

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

South­gate*5*5*0*0*51*19*15

Guild­ford*5*3*1*1*31*25*10

Un. of Bris­tol*5*3*1*1*32*29*10

St Al­bans*5*2*0*3*27*23*6

Tro­jans*5*1*0*4*19*33*3

Fare­ham*5*0*0*5*13*44*0

North:

Bow­don*5*5*0*0*41*13*15

Bee­ston*5*4*0*1*35*`16*12

Khal­sa Leam­ing­ton*5*2*1*2*36*34*7

Dee­side Ram­blers*5*1*1*3*17*25*4

Belper*5*1*0*4*32*42*3

City of York*5*1*0*4*15*46*3


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