- News release
Den Bosch continues to win, Hurley comfortably past Huizen
Leaders Den Bosch maintained their perfect score Saturday in the Tulp Hoofdklasse Women. The national champion won 1-0 against HDM on the twelfth match day in The Hague. Hurley took the win at home against straggler Huizen. It became 5-0.
HDM - DEN BOSCH 0-1
A cleared penalty ball by Frédérique Matla, her thirteenth goal of the season, was enough for Den Bosch to record its twelfth win in twelve league matches. For Matla, it was her nineteenth league goal against HDM. This makes the Hague team the international's third favorite opponent. Only against Pinoké (27 goals) and Bloemendaal (21) did Matla find the net more often. Furthermore, she is only four goals away from her 250th official goal for Den Bosch.
Thanks to the small victory, coach Marieke Dijkstra's team is now 53 games in a row unbeaten in the Tulp Hoofdklasse. HDM, which also lost 1-0 to SCHC last Wednesday, suffered its third defeat in a row. For the third time in a row and for the fifth time this season, HDM failed to score. The team scored only eight goals in twelve games. Only straggler Huizen scored fewer goals (4).
HURLEY - HOUSES 5-0
The five previous meetings between Hurley and Huizen never ended in a goal spectacle. This time, too, goals seemed scarce as the teams went into the locker rooms with a 0-0 score after two quarters. In the third quarter Hurley surged ahead with four goals and in the last quarter the final score was 5-0. The team thus came close to its biggest ever home win. On March 17, 2013, the Terriers were defeated 6-0 at home.
The 5-0 victory over bottom-placed Huizen ended a run of four league matches in which Hurley did not win. Huizen, on the other hand, suffered its seventh defeat in a row and did not score a single goal in that series, a goal drought that has now lasted 424 minutes.
