Canterbury women let slip a 3-1 half-time lead as they were held 4-4 at home by Slough in the EHL Women’s Premier Division on Saturday.

Behind to a fourth-minute strike for the visitors, Canterbury equalised through Grace Balsdon and then went ahead courtesy of Mel Clewlow’s deflected short corner, and a goal on debut by South African Cindy Botha.

The game’s turning point came three minutes into the second period when Slough pulled a goal back from a re-taken penalty flick.

The first first effort was well saved by Abi Walker, but the umpire penalised the Canterbury keeper for moving off her line, enabling Slough to score from the re-take.

Two close-range goals in the space of three minutes then edged Slough in front, only for Cathy Gilliat-Smith to level when she brilliantly deflected Tash Brennan’s cross at the near post.

Maidstone and Sevenoaks occupy the bottom two places in the Women’s Conference East.

Sevenoaks have lost all three games and sit rock bottom with a 3-0 defeat coming this week against Harleston Magpies.

Things went a bit better in the EH Women’s Cup on Sunday when they thrashed Norwich City 8-0.

Maidstone suffered a 3-2 league defeat to Staines.

The score was 1-1 at the break, after Cara Brogen had levelled things up with a penalty corner, but Staines scored twice from open play in the second half. Brogen hit a late second goal for Maidstone.

Canterbury men sit top of the Conference East following a third straight win.

A 3-2 victory at Oxted keeps their 100 per cent record intact.

Lloyd Norris-Jones scored his second hat-trick against Oxted in successive weeks, as he followed up his treble in the HA Cup with another impressive performasnce to help his new club continue their unbneaten start to the season.

He put them in front after 20 minutes, before Johannes Kloess put the Surrey side level five minutes into the second half. Norris-Jones added his second from a penalty stroke eight minutes later, but Seb Jones made it 2-2 soon afterwards.

Jones bagged his third on the hour, his second of the afternoon from open play.

Sevenoaks suffered their first league defeat of the season and it was a heavy one as they lost 6-0 at Indian Gymkhana.

Holcombe also tasted defeat for the first time as they went down 8-4 to Old Loughtonians.

On the scoresheet for Holcombe was England international Simon Ramsden, who was making his debut for he club, David Mathews got two and Danny Laslett scored the other.

Bromley & Beckenham dropped points at home when they drew 2-2 with Ipswich.