This Sunday the Sheldon Jewellery Centre Solihull Barons welcome the Hull NL Stingrays to the Hobs Moat barn for a game in which both sides will feel the two points are theirs to be won.

The Barons will also be using this opportunity to show their support for Cure Leukaemia Awareness Week which runs 15th to 21st October.

Erik Bakalar faces off against the Kingston Jets in Hull in a game which saw the Barons clinch the 2010-11 N2 championship.

The coach continued "The boys are more than aware of this and they need to make sure that when they meet Hull they will have to make the most of every 50/50 chance they get."

No quarters will be given on Sunday as your in-form Barons aim to keep their home-record intact and reward the Hobs Moat fans, old and new, with a thrilling night's hockey.

A good sized crowd is expected for the best Sunday Sport in Solihull - make sure you are a part of it !

Face-off 6pm
Adults £6, Concessions £3,
Family tickets £16 (2 adults & up to 3 children).

The Barons will be supporting Cure Leukemia at the Hull game. Charity No: 1100154 This week is Cure Leukaemia Awareness Week. The Barons have joined the 100 club and we will be using Sunday's Match V Hull to help raise awareness and funds for the charity. Please check out the website Red Alert Appeal (click image above).  The Red Alert Appeal will raise money to pay for nurses to carry out lifesaving clinical trials for blood cancer patients with drugs not available on the NHS.  The charity appeal will run until the end of the year, and the aim will be to raise money to pay for as many nurses as possible. Each one costs on average £25,000 pounds for a year and the aim is to raise enough money to pay for nurses to be based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham Heartlands and New Cross in Wolverhampton.

Sunday will be the Barons first experience of the Stingrays under their current guise. The Hull side rebranded themselves at the start of last season to reflect the elite league team playing out of the Humberside rink.

It was the Kingston Jets who represented Hull in the national league up to 2010-11 and the Barons, in what was their championship winning season came out on top in each of the sides four encounters.

Indeed it was the Jets who gave the Barons two of their most memorable nights in recent memory. The Barons both clinched their 2010-11 title away against the Hull side while a few weeks later the Jets were the final side of the season to visit Hobs Moat when the Barons were presented with the National League Cup.

The Stingrays have had a mixed season so far having lost three of their five games to sit fourth, one place below the Barons, in the league table.

The Hull side will however have a degree of confidence as they lace up their skates on Sunday evening having come off an 8-1 blitzing of Fylde Flyers last weekend, which saw them 4-0 up inside ten minutes.

Key players for the Stingrays include forward Jamie Cobley, Daniel Hackford and two way Elite player Jordan Fisher, while young netminder Warren Gilfoyle has played up from the Hull juniors for much of the season so far.

The threat posed by Hull is not lost on Barons coach Darren Bellerby. Speaking earlier this week he said "Going into this league everyone was saying it was between ourselves and Deeside for the title. Nottingham are certainly now in the mix now as well, while the rest of the sides are all more than capable of taking points of anyone."

Rob Eley gets his stick through the Kingston defence in the Barons final game of their championship winning season.