Hockey: Students sit for finals

Loughborough look set to continue their smooth progress towards retaining their Premiership title on the final two days of the Higgins Group National Indoor Leagues this weekend.

Success for Students, who won all four games last weekend, against their nearest rivals, Stourport, in the first match today at Kidderminster will almost certainly secure a place in the finals at Crystal Palace on Friday 31 January. They will be strengthened by the return of Jon Bleby, Glenn Kirkham and Jason Lee from England training, but will lack the injured Jerome Goudie.

Guildford and Old Loughtonians, two of the leading indoor sides over the last decade but now threatened by relegation, oppose each other in their final games tomorrow. The Guildford goalkeeper, Nick Taylor, returns from England duty.