Oxford Hawks suffered an afternoon of misery at Purley on Saturday, losing 5-2 to a home side who had lost their previous five league games.

For most of the Premier Division 1 game Hawks were dire and showed only in brief passages their true form.

Slow into their stride as usual, Hawks were two down after 15 minutes to the enthusiastic home side.

Hawks were flabby in possession moving the ball at a pedestrian pace and showed precious little ambition or penetration.

They reduced the deficit with an Ali McShane goal in their first attack of the second half, but then sat back and allowed the home side too much time on the ball.

Some woeful Hawks defending gifted Purley a third goal, then in a disastrous ten minutes the home side scored two more with Hawks down to ten men as first goalie Jamie Legg and then defender Dan Money were shown yellow cards.

Nick Ferraby's drag flick from a short corner gave Hawks a second goal, but the final scoreline reflected Hawks' worst performance of the season.

It was a bad day too for Rover Oxford, who crashed 10-1 at Gore Court, their biggest defeat for many years.

Rover were completely outplayed and taught a classic lesson in finishing by their high-flying opponents.

Five down after only eight minutes was an unimaginable start and not even a strike from Dan Smyth could tarnish Gore Court's dominance.

For the second time in three weeks, promotion-chasing Banbury conceded an injury-time equaliser, as they were held 2-2 at Henley.

Dave Clark scored from Banbury's first short corner and on 21 minutes Adrian Simons drove into the D and unleashed a fierce shot that birthday boy Tim Craven deflected in at the far post.

Henley pulled one back immediately and snatched a point right at the death.

Oxford University drew 3-3 with Staines in Premier Division 1.

City of Oxford's 6-3 win at Bicester in MBB&O Division 1 was tarnished by a bad injury to coach Alex Pizzey after he had struck two goals.

He was taken to hospital with ankle ligament damage, ruling him out for the rest of the season.

City came back from a goal down to lead 3-1 at half-time, and pulled away in the second half. Chris Brougham (2), Alex Cock and Andy Bell got their other goals.

Third-placed Witney won 3-1 at table-topping Tring in Division 1, while Wallingford earned a 2-2 draw at Wokingham.

Abingdon recorded their first defensive clean sheet of the season as they bounced back from last week's poor performance against Wallingford with an emphatic 3-0 victory away at Mill Hill.

Abingdon thoroughly deserved their 2-0 half time lead against opponents who were third in the table at the start of play.

Both the goals were scored by Will Trigg, the first an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net from 12 yards, the second a powerful flick from eight yards after Mill Hill's centre back was caught in possession by Josh Tomlinson.

Abingdon had to dig deep when they were reduced to ten men for a period midway through the second half after Trigg was shown a yellow card for dissent.

Ten minutes from time Ron Smith dispossessed Mill Hill's left back to get round the back of the defence before passing to Tomlinson who tapped in No 3.

OTHER SCORES Oxford Hawks 2nd 3, Holcombe 3rd 2; Banbury 2nd 4 (A Clark 3, T Boardman), Eastcote 2nd 1; City 2nd 1 (A McDonald), Sunbury 2nd 5; Hawks 4th 1 (D Cooke), City 3rd 1 (J Burke); Eastcote Simbas 5, Banbury 3rd 0; Ramgarhia 4th 5, Banbury 4th 0; Hawks Fledglings 3 (T Silman 2, T Bennett), Witney 3rd 2; Guildford Vets 1, Hawks Falcons 2 (I Sobey, R Smart); City Bulls 8 (A Bowen 4, D Galbraith 3, A White), Havant Vets 3.

EH Trophy: Banbury 6 (A Simons 2, R Foreman 2, M Bull, D Clark), Guernsey 0.

Southern Counties U13 Championship: (at Wellington College) Berks 0, Oxon 3 (J Rogers 2, E Dykes); Bucks 2, Oxon 1 (J Brownhill).

Badgers League: Rover Oxford 1, City 5 (E Dykes), J Weaver, S Fisher, M Perry, A Tolson). Oxon U16 League: City 7 (J Burke 3, J McNamara 2, F Anderson, L Sheldon), Rover Oxford 0.