Surbiton Ladies ended their four league game run without a win, in style on Saturday, all four of their top scorers on target in a 6-1 win over relegation playoff bound Cambridge City.

And with defender, Bethan Jenkins also scoring a quality goal, Surbiton kept their hopes of winning the England Hockey League Conference East alive.

Cambridge had lost their previous ten league games, but although Surbiton were given plenty of space to attack, they needed a Vicky Bryant deflection from a penalty corner in the 19th minute to open the scoring.

Four minutes later, Helen Grant doubled the lead, finishing off another penalty corner routine, which had initially seemed destined to break down after the injection was not stopped properly.

Jessica Brooker added the third from open play, a minute before the interval, but the goal was only awarded after a consultation by the umpires following Cambridge protests.

Five minutes into the second half, Cambridge’s Australian overseas player, Kellie-Lee James, pulled a goal back, but Surbiton replied with two quality individual goals.

First, Grant dribbled the ball into the circle and placed the ball perfectly past Cambridge goalkeeper, Lisa Griffin in the 46th minute, to score her ninth league goal of the season, three behind Horsham’s Fran Crossley, who heads the goalscoring charts with 12.

Then, four minutes later, Jenkins, who had moved out of defence to play a pivot role on the edge of the circle; showed her possession skills, then smashed the ball past Griffin to score her first goal of the season and put Surbiton 5-1 up.

The final goal came in the last minute from a penalty stroke.

Emma Rowland-Jones slotted the ball to Griffin’s right to complete the 6-1 victory, and join Jessica Brooker on seven goals.

Sevenoaks moved closer to winning the Conference East, as with three games remaining, they now have a three point lead over Ipswich.

Sevenoaks won 2-0 at Dereham, whilst Ipswich went down 3-1 at Chelmsford. Surbiton remain four points behind Sevenoaks, but moved up to third on goal difference above Chelmsford.

Surbiton visit Ipswich next Saturday (12 March - push back 1.15 pm), knowing that defeat for either side is likely to rule them out of the title race. The sides drew 1-1 at Sugden Road, back in November, Chloe Hunnable equalising in the second half after Rowland-Jones had given Surbiton the lead from a penalty corner.

SURBITON LADIES: Davies (GK); Heptonstall, Garne, Jenkins, James, Goodwin, Robinson, Rowland-Jones, V Bryant, Addison, A Bryant. Subs: Brooker, Ford, Holmes, Grant, Morgan

Surbiton Ladies’ second team reached a national final for the season running, beating Ipswich 3-0 at Sugden Road on Sunday to reach the England Hockey Women’s Second XI Cup final.

Ipswich, of the East League Premier Division, had lost 6-0 at Bromley & Beckenham in a league game on Saturday, but held out until two minutes before half time when Emma Rowland-Jones scored with an angled shot from the right of the circle.

Second half goals from Sian Craze and Kelly Morgan ensured that last season’s Trophy champions reached this season’s Cup final, which will be against University of Birmingham of the Midlands League Premier Division, at Cannock, on 10 April.

It was a double celebration, as the day before, the second team also clinched promotion, with four matches remaining, from the Surrey Ladies League Premier Division to the South Clubs’ Women’s Hockey League, winning 4-0 at home to Spencer.

Emma Elsom, Molly Hanson-Akins, Katelyn Aitchison, and Jemma Norton all scored as the team won the league six seasons after the first team were champions on their way to the England Hockey League.

SURBITON LADIES 2ND TEAM v Ipswich: Heunis (GK); Elsom, Philp, Fitch, Pearson, Norton, Oakes, Hanson-Akins, Bradshaw, Craze, Rowland-Jones. Subs: Morgan, E Tait.

Surbiton’s Under 18 Girls completed a hat-trick, by winning 4-1 at Teddington to reach the round-robin finals of the Under 18 Girls Cup.

The match was closer than the final score suggests, Surbiton needing three goals in the last eight minutes to avoid penalty strokes.

Surbiton led 1-0 at half time, Sophie Newton scoring in the 21st minute; but Teddington equalised seven minutes after half time, Juliette Inverdale levelling through a penalty stroke.

Lucy Clacher scored twice in the 62nd and 64th minutes, the first a penalty corner, the second from open play to give Surbiton a 3-1 lead, and Emma Broad converted another penalty corner with two minutes remaining to book their place in the four team finals at Canterbury over the weekend of 9/10 April.

In the other quarter-finals, Belper, who have won the competition for the last four years, and were runners up in 2006, won 3-2 at Pelicans; Wakefield, runners-up for the last two seasons, needed penalty strokes to beat Beeston (3-2 after a 1-1 draw); and Firebrands beat Trojans 3-0.

SURBITON GIRLS UNDER 18: Gavins (GK); James, Royce, Moore, Addison, Hester, Aitchison, Portelly, Holmes, Clacher, Broad, Newton, Thiessen, Gray, Huxford.