- News release
Den Bosch third after win, point for Hurley
Den Bosch ladies have taken over third place in the Tulp Hoofdklasse from Amsterdam. The reigning national champion won 2-0 over HDM in The Hague on Sunday, while Amsterdam went down 1-0 at home against leaders SCHC. At the bottom, Hurley took an important point in the fight against relegation. Coach Albert Kees Maneschijn's team is eleventh and has a four-point lead over bottom-placed Tilburg, which lost 3-0 to Pinoké, with two rounds to go.
Amsterdam - SCHC 0-1
After three draws in a row, SCHC finally took three points again. At the Wagener Stadium, Amsterdam was beaten 1-0. The only goal of the match fell just after half-time. Amsterdam defender Sabine Plönissen played the ball into the stick of Pien Dicke, who served her sister, who then scored her eighteenth goal of the season. For Amsterdam, a run of six wins came to an end. The defeat caused coach Jesse Mahieu's team to drop from third to fourth place, in favour of Den Bosch. SCHC remains in the lead, running two points ahead of number two Kampong. In the regular league, SCHC is already 34 matches in a row unbeaten. On foreign soil, that series now amounts to 26 matches. Moreover, Robbert van de Peppel's team set a major league record by scoring in 62 away games, breaking Den Bosch's record from 2007-2023.
HDM - Den Bosch 0-2
Two goals by Frédérique Matla, her 19th and 20th goals of the season, gave Den Bosch not only the win, but also third place in the league table. The national champion passed Amsterdam, which lost at home to SCHC. The win in The Hague was Den Bosch's fourth league victory in a row and 11th in the last 13 matches. HDM suffered its ninth defeat in the last 12 matches. Although the team remains in seventh place, it is not free of relegation worries. The difference with number ten Oranje-Rood is only two points. The gap with number 11 Hurley is three points.
HGC - Bloemendaal 2-1
With its second victory in a row, HGC is slowly crawling out of the bottom of the league table. In Wassenaar, cup winner Bloemendaal was beaten 2-1. Carlijn van Geest opened the score after seven minutes. It was already her fifth goal since the winter break. Mariona Serrahima doubled the lead, before Ryanne van Dooijewaard countered before half-time for Bloemendaal, which has been waiting for a win for six games. HGC rose from tenth to eighth place at the expense of Bloemendaal, the new number nine. Both teams have 19 points from 20 matches. The gap to number ten Oranje-Rood is only two points.
Kampong - Hurley 0-0
The match, which was moved to pitch 9 due to problems with the main pitch, ended in a scoreless draw. As a result, Kampong saw frontrunner SCHC advance two points further. The difference is four points with two games to go. It was Kampong's second points loss in the last four matches. Hurley, which had lost five of its last six matches, finally took another point. An important point, because although the team is 11th, the difference with bottom-placed Tilburg has increased to four points.
Tilburg - Pinoké 0-3
Tilburg is the loser of the twentieth round. The straggler saw competitors Hurley, Oranje-Rood and HGC take points. Coach Rémi Talma's team went down 3-0 at home against Pinoké. The visitors' last two goals came in the closing stages, when Talma had brought goalkeeper Ingeborg Dijkstra to the side for a final offensive to reverse the 1-0 deficit. That did not succeed, leaving Tilburg to suffer its 14th defeat of the season. The gap to number eleven Hurley, opponent on the last round, is four points. Number ten Oranje-Rood has a five-point lead.
