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The stats of the weekend: SCHC watertight, club record for Den Bosch
SCHC's women's defence was once again hermetically sealed against Pinoké, while Amsterdam remain vulnerable on their own pitch. Den Bosch's men equalled a club record. Here are the stats of the weekend.
TULP HOOFDKLASSE WOMEN
4 - SCHC striker Jip Dicke opened the scoring in a game for the fourth time this season from open play, more than any other player.
4 - Hurley won 0-4 at HGC to secure its second-largest away win in Hoofdklasse history. Only away against Victoria did the team ever win by a bigger margin (1-7).
8 - SCHC beat Pinoké 3-0 and has already drawn eight times this season. The team from Bilthoven has never done that before after the first thirteen games in a Hoofdklasse season.
10 - Amsterdam lost 1-2 to Den Bosch and has now lost ten home games in a row to another top team: G5 V5.
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11 - Amsterdam had to concede at least one goals against for the 11th home game in a row, equalling a negative club record from 1993-1994.
13 - Top scorer Jip Dicke scored once on behalf of SCHC against Pinoké (3-0) and is on thirteen goals after thirteen match rounds. That is already almost as many as during the complete previous season (fifteen goals).
29 - SCHC remained unbeaten in a league game against Pinoké for the 29th time in a row. The team from Bilthoven won 28 of those 29 matches.
800 - HDM played its 800th game in the Hoofdklasse against Oranje-Rood (2-1 defeat). Of the current teams in the Tulp Hoofdklasse, only Amsterdam (976) and Kampong (865) played more games at the highest level.
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TULP HOOFDKLASSE MEN
2 - Kampong suffered two away defeats in a row for the first time in four years. The Utrechters lost consecutively at Den Bosch (4-1) and Amsterdam (2-0).
6 - Den Bosch won 6-0 at Laren, equalling a club record. It was the sixth time the Boschians could win an away match by six goals difference.
10 - Rotterdam won their first away match against Bloemendaal in the regular league since 28 September 2014. This ended a run of 10 away matches without a win at 't Kopje.
13 - Leaders Oranje-Rood won 5-2 at home against HDM and remained unbeaten in a home game for the thirteenth time in a row (W9 G4).
14 - Pinoké attacker Joep Troost's opening goal in the home match against Schaerweijde (4-1) fell after only 14 seconds, by far the fastest goal this season.
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15 - With the three hits by Thierry Brinkman (Den Bosch) and Henrik Mertgens (Oranje-Rood), the number of hat-tricks in this season has reached 15. That is already almost as many as during the complete last season (16 hat-tricks).
15 - A very young debutant at Pinoké in the home game with Schaerweijde: Neil Stronach Hardy. At fifteen years and 296 days old, he is one of the youngest players ever in the Hoofdklasse.
32 - Out games and Hurley remain a tricky combination in the Hoofdklasse. The straggler went down 4-1 at Klein Zwitserland and lost 32 of its last 35 matches on foreign soil.
50 - Thierry Brinkman's hat-trick against Laren was his fifth in the Hoofdklasse. It was also the 50th time a Den Bosch player scored at least three times in one match.
100 - Timo Boers scored his hundredth official goal in the service of Den Bosch against Laren. He scored 68 of his hundred goals in the Tulp Hoofdklasse.
