T&T se­nior men’s hock­ey play­er Teague Mar­cano was on fire scor­ing eight goals, in­clu­sive of a beaver trick, in four match­es to lead Hamp­stead & West­min­ster to a per­fect 4-0 start in the Eng­land Hock­ey League Su­per6s In­door Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at Rep­ton School on the week­end.

On Sun­day, Mar­cano and Hamp­stead & West­min­ster took con­trol of the men’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion, af­ter an en­thralling sec­ond day of ac­tion in the Su­per 6s Cham­pi­onships.

Hav­ing won their first two games on Sat­ur­day, Hamp­stead & West­min­ster fol­lowed that up with an­oth­er two vic­to­ries on Sun­day to stay per­fect.

In the day’s open­ing game, Mar­cano and Kai Kaep­pel­er both scored two goals each as Hamp­stead & West­min­ster dis­patched Read­ing 6-1.

The pair of Joe Sharp and skip­per Marc Ed­wards al­so got on the score­sheet for Hamp­stead & West­min­ster be­fore Daniel Cox grabbed a late con­so­la­tion for Read­ing.

And Rep­ton was then sim­i­lar­ly im­pres­sive­ly dis­patched 5-1 to en­sure a 100 per cent record for Hamp­stead & West­min­ster head­ing in­to next week­end’s de­ci­sive games.

Kaep­pel­er net­ted twice in the open­ing 11 min­utes and James Sut­cliffe made it 3-0 right at the end of the sec­ond quar­ter be­fore strikes by Will Cal­nan and Ed­wards – the lat­ter from a penal­ty cor­ner – sand­wiched a goal from Rep­ton’s Si­mon Claris to seal the deal.

Hamp­stead’s place atop the ta­ble at the halfway mark was then se­cured by de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Sur­biton slip­ping to a 5-3 de­feat to Wim­ble­don in a lo­cal der­by.

That re­sult meant Wim­ble­don and Sur­biton end­ed the day on nine points, three be­hind Hamp­stead & West­min­ster, with Sevenoaks and East Grin­stead al­so on nine – mean­ing the bat­tle for the four Su­per 6s Fi­nals spots is shap­ing up to be a five-horse race in the men’s Pre­mier Di­vi­sion.

A day ear­li­er, Mar­cano fired in dou­ble as Hamp­stead & West­min­ster and Wim­ble­don played out a back-and-forth thriller that end­ed with the for­mer even­tu­al­ly pre­vail­ing 8-6 af­ter the lead changed mul­ti­ple times.

Hamp­stead & West­min­ster then made it two from two with a 7-2 vic­to­ry over Brook­lands MU, with Mar­cano scor­ing four as Ship­per­ley, Kaep­pel­er and Marc Ed­wards al­so found the tar­get.

Through­out the next two week­ends, Jan­u­ary 15-16 and Jan­u­ary 22-23 Mar­cano and his team­mates will com­plete their eight-match sched­ule with clash­es against East Grind­stead, Sur­biton, Hol­combe and Sevenoaks at the end of which the top four teams from the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion will qual­i­fy for the Jaf­fa Su­per 6s Fi­nals Day on Sun­day, Jan­u­ary 30 - Hock­ey's Big Day In – at the Cop­per Box Are­na.

How­ev­er, it is un­cer­tain how in­volved Mar­cano will be for Hamp­stead & West­min­ster over the fi­nal phase of the tour­na­ment af­ter he was named in an 18-man na­tion­al team along with old­er broth­er Tariq to rep­re­sent this coun­try at the eight-team Pan Amer­i­can Men’s Hock­ey Cup Tour­na­ment from Jan­u­ary 19 to 30 in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

The younger Mar­cano, who was named as the “Most Valu­able Play­er” at the Ju­nior Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cham­pi­onships in Chile last Au­gust is a key mem­ber of the Dar­ren Cowie-coached “Ca­lyp­so Stick­men” squad which will face the USA, Cana­da and Mex­i­co in Group B of the com­pe­ti­tion which will serve as the re­gion’s qual­i­fi­er to the 16-team FIH Odisha World Cup to be host­ed by In­dia in 2023.

The re­main­ing four teams in the Pan Am com­pe­ti­tion, three-time win­ners Ar­genti­na, Brazil, Chile and Pe­ru com­prise Pool A.