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South hosted a mini mixed tournament at Long Road on Saturday 18 June, with 30 minute games for the Mixed 'A' side against Bishops Stortford and Hertford.

In the first match against Stortford, South put in a strong performance to finish 6-2 winners thanks to goals from Alice Wright, Mariano Rosenzvaig, Will Havelange and a ...

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Sawston Men's Hockey Club - Mid-80s strip
Sawston Men's Hockey Club - Mid-80s strip

A recent out-of-the-blue contact from an old member, longtime Men's 3s and Vets stalwart Mike Gronow, has resulted in delivery of a treasure hoard of old club fixture cards dating back to the early 1980s. Sadly, as this was pre-merger the cards only relate to the old Men's Club.

[N.B. For younger readers, back ...

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The Lines All Go Up

The club has come a long way since Sawston Men’s Hockey Club – followed shortly afterwards by the Ladies’ club – was forced in the mid-90s to relocate from the village playing fields into the city in order to play its games on the newly-mandatory astroturf surface, later changing its name to reflect its new ...

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The team with their silver medals and big smiles - well played!
The team with their silver medals and big smiles - well played!

Marking another first for the club’s ever-growing junior section, Cambridge South debuted its Girls’ U10 7-a-side team at the In2 Hockey Club Championships on Sunday, the first team from the club to have featured in this competition.

The Cambridgeshire county round for the Girls’ U10s took place at the University Sports Ground on Wilberforce Road ...

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© Jean-François Beauséjour. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
© Jean-François Beauséjour. This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

What does it mean to be a part of a team or a club, and what attitudes and values enable a group to thrive? An article by a New Zealand All Blacks rugby coach has some interesting insights, which are relevant to anyone who wants to help build a positive club culture.

Alongside the technical skills, physical ability, tactical ...

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A Tale of Two Sittings

There’s no doubt that Cambridge South has come a long way over the past couple of decades, from a little village club with a couple of men’s and a single ladies’ side (as in, there was only one ladies’ team, rather than all the ladies in it were single. Although they could have been - our records ...

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An Ely Good Performance

After the previous juniors’ date had been lost to the February cold snap (shortly before the February heat wave), the trip to Ely was the first match event of the year for South’s U8, U10 and U12 sides.

The fixtures had originally scheduled to be hosted by Cambridge City at Wilberforce Road, then moved ...

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2nd Match Date for South's U8s-U12s

South's Mixed U8s show how much they enjoyed their day!

After the monsoon at St Neots in October, for our second U8-U12 Sunday fixtures date the clouds cleared and we basked in the autumn sunshine at Peterborough. Four clubs, twenty-two teams, two hundred-odd players, even more parents; the queue for bacon rolls at the ...

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Summer 7s 2018 - THE FINALE

After the rollercoaster of emotions, the ups and downs, the celebrations and the heartaches, it’s all over. No, not England’s World Cup campaign, which for once is lasting longer than a bowl of strawberries at Wimbledon, but this years South Summer 7s mixed tournament.

The evening opened with the Plate leaders, Queens’ Greatest ...