It was a mixed bag of the results for the men’s section this weekend as the first team just edged to victory against Beeston, despite three dominant quarters.
The second team’s promotion push took a blow as rivals, Lindum, beat them at the JSM Arena.
Slipping down to thirds spot, the third team lost to Sheffield.
The fifth’s manager to scrape a victory against Sheffield at home.

Results:
M1 3-2 Beeston
M2 1-2 Lindum
M3 0-2 Sheffield
M5 1-0 Sheffield

M1: Our second home game of the year, and the second under the lights on a Saturday night as
Doncaster welcomed Beeston 2XI to the John S Marshall Arena, looking to make it back to back wins in the North Conference.
As afternoon merged into evening, the game pushed back with Doncaster dominating the ball in
the early exchanges. A couple of golden field goal chances and a PCA went begging for Doncaster, and at the other end, the home team were nearly punished on the counter as Beeston
spurned a couple of decent field goal opportunities with keeper Davidson and the post coming to
the rescue.
The deadlock was broken as Cresswell called the spin move from a PCA, leaving the number one
runner in no-man’s-land and Gibson ample time to pick his spot: 1-0 with 25 minutes gone. With
the instruction from the sideline to keep pushing for more goals, a collector’s item was thrown up
for the crowd as Ryan Sproul scored his first field goal of the campaign through a well-worked
baseline move.
2-0 is always a dangerous lead to have and as Doncaster were on top, attack was considered the
best form of defence to try and add more goals to the tally and put this one to bed. A third goal
from poacher Kerly put the home side well in front, which should mean the game was done and
dusted, right?
Wrong. A decent overhead from Beeston coupled with some fairly average circle defending
brought the visitors back into the game at 3-1 just shy of three-quarter-time. The last quarter was
chaotic at best. Doncaster had found a way to allow the visitors a foothold in the game and as
Beeston scored their second, it looked like the hosts, having been 3-0 up and cruising, were now
losing control of the game at 3-2.
At one point, Doncaster were down to 8 players with two greens and a yellow card being shown
by the umpires, and the game was really in the balance when Beeston won a PCA with only a
minute left on the clock. Fortunately, a solid PC defensive unit kept the attempt at bay and
Doncaster managed to hold on for all 3 points.
The good massively outweighed the bad in that performance, but a big lesson for the team that
complacency and a lack of discipline at this level, on another day, can be costly.

M2: The 2s took on Lindum at home on Saturday afternoon, with both teams fighting at the right end of the table. The game got of to a bad start for the home side as lindum took the advantage with a well worked penalty corner. However, Doncaster’s lacklustre start soon ended as they grew into the game with some very promising periods of play. This lead to the equaliser, good work down the left side from rudkin saw him brought down in the circle leading to a penalty stroke. Captain skelhorn showed nerves of
steel to slot past a good keeper. The game was hard fought between the two circles, with Doncaster playing some good hockey, however, late in the second half against the run of play the away side converted another penalty corner to steal all three points.

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