Grange have won all four of their men’s Premiership matches so far this term, scoring 16 goals and conceding four, and they entertain bottom club Inverleith at Fettes on Saturday (noon).
The visitors are pointless having lost all four of their games, scoring three goals and letting in 24 and third-placed Grange are in no mood to slip up here.
They are bracketed behind pace-setting Western and Watsonias, who are second, on a maximum 12 points, but the Auchenhowie men top the table on a goal difference of 19 against Watsonians 14. Grange have a goal difference of 12.
Second-placed Watsonians entertain Uddingston (16.00) while Western, fresh from playing in the EuroHockey League in London, host Glasgow rivals Hillhead who are seventh with four points from one wins and a draw from their four games.
The University of Edinburgh are fourth on ten points from three wins and a draw, scoring 14 goals and letting in four, and they host FSEG Clydesdale who are four places and six points adrift having won only one of their four outings.
Mid-table Erskine Stewarty’s Melville (ESM) with six points entertain second bottom Dundee Wanderers who are one of three teams without a point so far and a goal difference of minus 20, one better than Inverleith.
Watsonians women have won all their games, scoring 44 goals and conceding one, as they defend the Premiership, and they go in against struggling The University of St Andrews.
The students have one point from their four games having scored four goals and shipped 16.
Eighth-placed Inverleith host bottom club Fjordhus Reivers at The Mary Erskine School and they home side are two points better off with three against one.
The University of Edinburgh, who are fifth, host city rivals, Grange Edinburgh Ladies who are one place below them in the table. The students have lost one of their three games while Grange have drawn all four of their games so far.
Men’s Premiership: Erskine Stewart’s Melville (ESM) v Dundee Wanderers (no time given); Grange v Inverleith (noon, Fettes); Grove Menziehill v Dunfermline Carnegie (12.20, Dawson Park); The University of Edinburgh v FSEG Clydesdae (13.20, Peffermill); Western Wildcats v Hillhead (13.30, Auchenhowie); Watsonians v Uddingston (16.00, Peffermill).
Women’s Premiership: Clydesdale Western v GHK (no time or venue given); The University of Edinburgh v Grange Edinburgh Ladies (no time of venue given); Watsonians v The University of St Andrews (no time or venue given); Inverleith v Fjordhus Reivers (13.00, The Mary Erskine School); Hillhead v Glasgow University (15.45, Upper Windyedge).
FLASHBACK: Grange v Western Wildcats at Tipperlin last season. Picture by Alex Rose
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