FRESH from victory at Leek, Belper were keen to make up for their poor performance against Sheffield Bankers in the EHL Cup a fortnight previous.

And they did so in style, hammering a massive 11 goals past the South Yorkshire club.

Belper started brightly and dominated the opening stages by playing patient hockey and then moving at devastating pace within the final third.

This dominance brought a goal for Tom Leatherland in the tenth minute after some good build up play down the left hand side saw him free for a tap-in on the back post.

A further four goals followed in the next 15 minutes and at 5-0 down the visitors were never likely to come back.

All the goals were fine examples of Belper pressurising the Bankers into mistakes and then moving at pace as a unit to force the ball over the line.

The shell-shocked visitors had no answer to Belper's superior speed, strength and skill levels.

All the first half goals came from the Nailers forward line with Sam McCambridge netting twice after Leatherland's opener, before Tom Sherratt rounded the keeper for the fourth and then Nick Morris made it five.

The sixth was added in the final minute of the half by Leatherland again, and by this time Belper were playing against just ten as Josh Poke had found his way into the sin-bin due to a rough tackle on the home left back.

In the second half Belper were keen to kick on and ensure the goals kept flying in, the seventh duly came when a slick penalty corner routine ten minutes in saw the ball fall to McCambridge for him to steer into the bottom corner.

Two minutes later a further penalty corner was won and resulted in another goal, this time Sherratt added a second for himself as the ball was played back to him after he had injected the corner.

The lead was stretched to nine when captain Richard Kitchen scored a rare field goal on his return from injury after dribbling into the 'D' and sliding the ball beyond the keeper on his reverse stick.

The guests answered this immediately though when, despite the complaints of the Belper defence they won a penalty stroke. This was cooly converted into the roof of the net by Scott Sanderson.

Moments after the restart Sheffield Bankers found themselves down to ten again when Darvis Virabi was perhaps a little unlucky to be sin-binned after being adjudged to go through the back of the rampant Sam McCam-bridge in his effort to play the ball.

McCambridge himself took Belper to double figures eight minutes from the end when another fast attacking move left him through on the keeper and he managed to squeeze the ball towards the line.