Hockey: Grange aim to do double over Hillhead

TITLE-CHASING Grange edged Hillhead on the opening day of the hockey season - and the Division One pace-setters are keen to complete a league double over the Glasgow side to extend their unbeaten run to nine games.

Craig Harper should have a full squad to pick from after two successive road wins at bottom-markers Aberdeen and mid-table Menzieshill.

The club's player-coach will not have to remind his squad of their previous meeting with Hillhead, when they scraped a 3-2 win.

Grange are looking to maintain their unbeaten run going into the winter break.

Elsewhere, Edinburgh University visit unbeaten Kelburne, the current champions, while Western host Aberdeen and Clydesdale visit Wanderers.

CALA take the short trip from Meggetland to Bangholm to face Waverley Inveresk Trinity. CALA have successfully appealed to Scottish Hockey against a one-point deduction for failing to produce an umpire for a Division Two game.

Third-placed Watsonians, on paper, have a more difficult task at Uddingston. Watsonians have won eight of their 11 games for 26 points, 12 ahead of Uddingston who have won four and drawn two of their 11 games for 14 points.