Teddington Hockey Club’s U15s boys and girls teams both had superb wins last weekend in their national cup competitions.

Teddington Girls emerged the 5-4 winners away to Taunton Vale in the cup quarter finals and the Boys beat Havant 4-2 for a place in their quarter finals.

The girls’ win puts Teddington in the national finals weekend at the end of April where they face a round-robin competition against, Wakefield, Lytham St Annes and local rivals Surbiton.

The Teddington Girls started their game against Taunton well and raced out to a 3-0 lead with goals from Livvy Martineau, Ellie Dorrington Ward and Libby Williams.

A Taunton Vale goal gave them hope but a fourth from Fleur Gibson from a tight angle restored the cushion.

An early second half goal for Vale was balanced out by one from Emily Caldwell forced home from close range.

That seemed to have sealed it but two Vale short corners in two minutes left the lead looking slender with fifteen minutes to go.

However the whole team defended well and took the steam out of the Vale revival.

Teddington Boys went 1-0 up against Havant after ten minutes with a goal by captain Jonny Gooch from a well-worked corner routine.

In a tense match against a strong opposition, Teddington held the lead throughout the game and a second goal from Gooch closely followed by one from Havant made it 2-1 at half time.

Havant came out strongly in the second half and Teddington survived a fraught fifteen minutes when a superb reaction from defender Jo Malthouse saved a certain Havant goal on the line.

A blistering solo run from Nick Scott put the score line at 3-1 and the fourth goal gave Gooch a hat-trick and Teddington the match, despite a late consolation goal for Havant.

Teddington Boys travel to York next week for the quarter finals.