Hockey: Canada humble Britain
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Your support makes all the difference.An offer of additional funding by Paul DeVillers, the Canadian Secretary of State for Sport, to the Canada team if they beat Great Britain by three goals or more prompted Canada's first victory over the British.
The experimental Great Britain team were beaten 4-1 by Canada in their second game in the Tri-Nation Tournament in Vancouver yesterday. The Canadian team manager David Bissett said: "I am really excited about the win but if I look at it honestly I think we were lacking in many areas of the game. It was very flattering."
The difference between the sides was that the Canadians took their chances but Britain squandered theirs.
The Canadian captain Rob Short scored the first of his two goals in the 16th minute when he calmly beat the on-rushing goalkeeper Jon Ebsworth. Short's second came in the 26th minute at a breakdown penalty corner. Then Ken Pereira deflected in a Wayne Fernandes penalty corner to make it 3-0 at the interval.
England made five substitutions for the second half but Canada went further ahead within three minutes of the restart through Ranjeev Deol. Britain had to wait until the 61st minute for their consolation goal from Mark Pearn.
GREAT BRITAIN: J Ebsworth; J Collins, B Garrard (capt); A West, J Peckett, R Todd; B Middleton, M Pearn, N Stott, J Wallis, D Hall. Substitutes used: G Harris, J Goudie, V Marwaha, D Mitchell, G Moodie.
TRI-NATION TOURNAMENT: Standings 1 Canada 4pts; 2 Great Britain 3; 3 Belgium 1.
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