England Hockey Playoffs: Holcombe v Surbiton Ladies

Harriet Pittard is an EVO sponsored player & coach. She is a current England U21 international and plays for Holcombe HC Ladies 1st XI. Here, she blogs for EVO Hockey about the upcoming playoffs game with Surbiton HC. 

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I'm very excited for the weekend ahead at Lee valley as we go and face unbeaten side Surbiton. As a team we are feeling confident and had a good practice session up at Lee valley on Thursday night to get used to the pitch.

Despite our opposition being unbeaten this season, we are definitely in with a chance of winning if we play as a team, like we know we can, drawing on some very experienced players within the team. Our performances have been inconsistent this season but none of that matters now, coming into the play-off stages.

We simply need to be the best we can be for two more games. Here goes...