FALMOUTH Hockey Club have been crowned champions for the second time in three years after the final league tables were confirmed on Friday.

As the Packet reported two weeks ago, the West Clubs Women's Hockey League decided to calculate the final league positions on a percentage points basis, which would see final points calculated on total points won, divided by total points available and multiplied by 100 to give a percentage.

This method, used after the hockey season was curtailed on March 16 in light of the coronavirus pandemic, would see Falmouth's first team collect the Premier Division 2B crown, with their title being confirmed on Friday when the league published the final tables.

Falmouth are crowned champions of the Premier Division 2B with a 75.55 per cent score after scoring 34 of a possible 45 points from their 15 league games this season.

They finish nearly eight per cent ahead of second-placed Exe 2, who scored 33 points from 16 games.

It means Falmouth will be able to take promotion to Premier Division 1 – the top tier of women's hockey in the south west and the fourth tier in the national system.

It would be a second promotion in three seasons for Falmouth, who won the third-tier South Division in 2018.

If promotion is not taken then it would mean three Cornish teams competing in the division next season, with Penzance set to join Falmouth and Newquay after being champions of the South Division.

Falmouth's second team finish eighth in the fourth-tier ten-team Trelawney Division 1, meaning they have avoided relegation to Division 2.

Camborne School of Mines have been crowned champions of Trelawney 1 and are set to take promotion to the South Division next season.

The league is currently sorting the various promotions and relegations across its 26 divisions in readiness for next season, although a start date for the next campaign is unconfirmed.

Falmouth sat one point clear of second-placed Exe 2 with a game in hand at the time of the suspension, winning 11 of their 15 games in 2019/20.

Their campaign got off to a rocky start at the end of September 2019 with a 2-1 defeat at home to Isca & University of Exeter 4. They followed it up with a 3-1 win at eventual bottom side Winscombe before losing by the same score at home to Newquay in the first Cornish derby of the season.

But they would go on to lose just one more of their 12 league games, which came in a 3-1 defeat at Westberries in game six after wins over Plymouth University and Shepton Mallet.

A 3-1 win over Firebrands 2 on November 16 kickstarted an unbroken nine-game unbeaten run up until the early end to the season.

Falmouth beat Kingsbridge & Salcombe 5-3 at Penryn College before winning 2-1 at title-rivals Exe 2 in their final match of 2019, before kicking off 2020 with a narrow 3-2 win at Isca and a 5-0 hammering of Winscombe at home as they extended their winning run to five games.

Five became seven with a hard-fought 4-2 win at Newquay to wrestle back Cornish bragging rights, and a confident 4-0 win at home to Shepton Mallet.

The run came to an end in their penultimate match at home to Westberries, which ended in a 3-3 draw, but Falmouth rounded off the campaign – not that they knew that it was to be their final game at the time – with a superb 5-1 triumph at Firebrands 2 on March 14.