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Vic wave goodbye to hockey gold
Friday, April 17th, 2009
By Leanne Richards
Victoria had to content themselves with silver in the Uni Games women’s hockey despite beating Auckland Uni in the last match of the tournament yesterday.
Vic hockey runners up. Photo / Leanne Richards
Vic needed a three-goal winning margin to tip Monash out of the gold medal position but could only manage a 2-1 victory.
Monash snatched the gold by a whisker and will be celebrating somewhere over the Tasman after having to fly out early.
“We were hoping for the gold…but it was a good effort,” Victoria’s captain Hannah Naftel says.
For a team that almost didn’t happen - they managed to get together at the last minute - they have done well.
“We were really pleased with how we went and the girls just improved throughout the week,” says Naftel. “I think we could have stepped it up a bit, but the girls are tired.”
With a fulltime score of Victoria 2 and Auckland 1, the Aucklanders took bronze.
The men’s tournament result was Gold to Auckland, Silver to Otago and Bronze to AUT.
Leanne Richards is a WITT journalism student
