Chesterfield draw with Sheffield as hockey game beats freeze

Goalscorer, Luke Spyra. Photo credit - Shaun Hardwick.

It was a weather affected weekend in the hockey as all but one fixture fell victim to the freezing conditions.

In the afternoon game, Chesterfield 4s played out a 1-1 draw against Sheffield 7, in sunny but cold conditions.

The game was evenly balanced throughout, but it was Sheffield who took the lead first. A shot on target was deflected off a defender's wrong footing the Chesterfield keeper, Regan Morton.

Chesterfield were unlucky not to equalise, when Chay Brown's first time deflection was expertly saved by Sheffield's keeper.

However the Chesterfield pressure eventually paid off and it was former 4s captain, Luke Spyra, who brought Chesterfield level. As the ball broke from an initial shot and clearance, Luke's clever lob over the stranded goalkeeper got the 4s back in the match.

At half-time both teams would have thought they had a chance for the win. In the second half, Chesterfield had chance after chance but couldn't find the winner. Sheffield had their keeper to thank as he made numerous close range saves and kept them in the game, in a man of the match performance.

4s Captain, Steve Lord said: "I was really pleased with the improvements from the team. We're starting to enjoy our hockey again, trusting each other and supporting too.

"Now that we're in the second half of the season we can really start to look at how far we've improved. From the early season drubbings, the team is now really hard to beat and always in the game. If we can just add that goal scoring aspect up we'll be happy".