The Northwood 1st hockey team defended their indoor crown with a nail biting 4-3 victory over Westville in the final of the KZN Indoor League.
Northwood showed immense character to come from a 3-1 deficit with ten minutes remaining in the game to grab the winner in the last three minutes.
Northwood started as the stronger of the two teams when they played some brilliant passing hockey in the first ten minutes but only managed to capitalise once through Steve McManus.
Westville responded to the goal and took charge of the remainder of the half and after two good goals took a 2-1 lead into the half time break.
Westville came out firing in the second half and extended their lead to 3-1through a well worked penalty corner.
This spurred the Northwood team into action and Greg Wright provided the punch needed when he turned over the ball and showed some individual brilliance to eliminate two Westville defenders and setup Steve McManus with an easy tap in goal.
Northwood continued to pile on the pressure and were eventually rewarded a penalty corner when the skilful Matthew de Sousa was fouled badly. Tylo Remke showed composure to score the resulting penalty corner.