A BUSY weekend of hockey for Dunfermline Carnegie Hockey Club saw three of their female teams come away with an unbeaten record.

The club's ladies seconds (main picture), sponsored by Production Bureau, and the thirds both picked up draws with sides from Edinburgh University, whilst the development side were 3-0 winners in their weekend fixture.

The seconds travelled to Peffermill to play Edinburgh University sixes and, on a dry but cold and damp afternoon, played their part in an evenly-matched contest.

Both teams demonstrated good movement of the ball and team-work, but the score remained blank until the third quarter, when the home side scored after driving strongly up the left-hand side, along the baseline and working the ball nicely into the circle.

Carnegie, though, hit back in the final quarter through Sheila Duncan, their MVP (Most Valuable Player), from a well-worked penalty corner.

The away side managed to thwart several penalty corners in Edinburgh's favour, whilst having a couple of good chances to score from open play themselves, but the match ended in a 1-1 draw.

Carnegie Ladies thirds met Edinburgh University 10s, also at Peffermill, and were under pressure from the start through multiple short corners.

They had an opportunity to open the scoring in the third quarter from a short corner, but couldn't convert, before they lost a player to injury at the start of the fourth, leaving them with only 10 players for the final 15 minutes.

However, the West Fifers stayed strong and fought hard to keep their opponents at bay and secure a well-earned 0-0 draw, in which Fiona McPhie, Niamh Gibbons and Nicola Waterson were voted joint MVP.

Dunfermline Press: The ladies thirds also drew at the weekend.The ladies thirds also drew at the weekend. (Image: Dunfermline Carnegie Hockey Club.)

Meanwhile, Dunfermline Carnegie's men's firsts, sponsored by Edinburgh Asset Finance, were in action on Saturday in Scottish Hockey's Men's Indoor National One.

All of the outfield players in their squad came through the club's youth system, with only the goalkeepers having moved from other teams, which Carnegie said highlights their focus of "developing our youth players into first team players of the future".

After a difficult opening game with Western Wildcats Hockey Club, who ran out 12-2 winners, they were defeated 2-0 by one of the season's favourites, Inverleith Hockey Club, in what was a competitive and evenly-contested game where Carnegie just couldn't find a route to goal.

That gave them an extra game in the bottom pool against Grange Hockey Club, who proved to be a stubborn and skillful opponent in a 5-5 draw.