RYE – Field Hockey New York

Rye FHC hosted it’s inaugural indoor tournament over the 23rd/24th January. Organised at late notice after the Brooklyn All-stars tournament in Maryland was cancelled, the event was well attended and proved a great success.

The tournament followed a round-robin format at Rye’s indoor facility at Park West High School in Mid-town Manhattan. Rye entered two teams and the group was completed by the Boston Minutemen, New York Islanders and the USA womens team. The two Rye teams (Buccaneers and Pirates) proved to be the strongest sides, both winning 7 of their 8 games with each teams loss being against the other Rye team. The Buccaneers had the upper hand on Saturday and the Pirates took the honors on Sunday. Eventually the Pirates won a closely fought final.

All in all, given the short notice, the weekend was a huge success both with the quality of hockey on the pitch and the ‘refreshments’ with old friends in the bar on the Saturday night. Hopefully it is just the beginning of a resurgence of indoor hockey in the North East/Mid Atlantic area after it has fallen by the wayside in recent years.