OXFORD Hawks’ bright start to the season suffered another dent as they crashed to a 4-1 home defeat against Cardiff & Met.

Following on from the setback at Birmingham in the Investec Men’s Conference West a week earlier, it sealed the side’s first back-to-back losses for two years.

Cardiff led against the run of play, but Hawks missed a glorious chance to equalise when Jack Biggs failed to convert a penalty early in the second half.

Hawks quickly found themselves 2-0 down and although Ton Elias pulled a goal back, Biggs was yellow-carded.

Cardiff made the most of the man advantage to add a third goal, before scoring again late on.

Ben Moss and Andy Gosnell scored braces to give Witney a 4-2 victory over visitors OMT in MBBO Regional Division 1.

Missing some key figures, including captain Tim Chilvers, they never hit top gear, but did enough to claim the points.

Oxford OBU felt hard done by from the officials in their 3-3 draw at Ashford.

The visitors were 2-0 and 3-2 up thanks to goals from James Rayward, Sean Cox and Worcester Bowden, but were aggrieved by decisions which went against them as Ashford hit back.

OTHER RESULTS

Amersham & Chalfont 1, Oxford Hawks 2nd 3 (S Chilvers, L Hansford, M Wood); Oxford Hawks 3rd 2 (L Cooke, H Venables), Harrow 4; Oxford Hawks 4th 6 (L Piper 3, I Roberts 2, H Fuller), Ashford (Middx) 2nd 2; Milton Keynes 3rd 3, Oxford Hawks 5th 1; Oxford Hawks 6th 4 (E Baldock 2, R Fogden, F Rumsby), Milton Keynes 4th 3; Bicester 3rd 1, Oxford Hawks 0; Maidenhead U18 Boys 0, Oxford Hawks U18 15; Oxford U16 3, Oxford Hawks U16 8; Oxford Hawks U14 7, Wycombe U14 1; Oxford 2nd 3 (D Bleach, T Le Guezec, T Vernon), Phoenix & Ranelagh 2nd 4; South Berkshire 2nd 6, Oxford 3rd 3 (J Vogel, B Brearey, T Cowan); Oxford 4th 2 (J Rawal 2), Reading 5th 5; Oxford 5th 1 (C Terry), Marlow 4th 1; Abingdon 2nd 0, Oxford 6th 6 (M Neville 3, A Neville, B Hunter, J Smith); Oxford 7th 1 (T Christophers), Thame 2nd 3; Wallingford 4th 3, Oxford 8th 1 (A Samid); Oxford 9th 3 (H Rahim, G Betts, A Ahmed), Abingdon 3rd 3; Oxford University 2nd 3, Wallingford 0; Wallingford 2nd 3 (B White 3), Windsor 1; Windsor 2nd 4, Wallingford 3rd 4 (S Hudson 2, J Garrod, M Knaapen); Staines 1, Witney 2nd 3 (C Summers 3); Reading Rovers 5, Witney 3rd 4 (P Easterbrook 2, J Easterbrook, B Campion).