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| A hopeful SA U/23 and U/19 Underwater Hockey Team |
The SA U/23 and
U/19 Underwater Hockey Teams started the World Championships in
Hobart, Australia with 6 wins and 1 loss on day one. The U/23 Men and
Ladies each played one game and the U/19 Ladies played three games
and SA was on the winning side in all of them. The U/19 Men played
two matches, winning one and loosing the second.
Online
article
at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sa-teams-start-6-wins-worlds-zandre-coetzee
The tournament
started today (Friday, 14th) and the finals are on
Saturday 22 July. Games can be followed on
http://tinyurl.com/hobartlive
where they are live streamed as well as available afterwards. Full
updated results are at
https://sportsdesq.sportstg.com/portal/index.cfm?fuseaction=main&OrgID=10080
Previous articles about the SA Team at the Underwater Hockey World
Championships are at: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/family-matters-sa-underwater-hockey-zandre-coetzee and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sa-underwater-hockey-players-going-world-hobart-zandre-coetzee
The SA U/19 Women
who are the defending World Championships (from Spain 2015) opened
the day for SA with a 5-0 win over USA. Captain Calista Pake scored 2
goals with Nicole Smit, Lise van Rhyn and Daniel Wentzel contributing
the balance for SA.
The SA U/19 Men
then beat Argentina 7-3 with Captain Ryan van Zyl scoring 2 goals and
Austin Elferink, Joel Hanner, Simeon Jooste, Mathew Penning and Dirk
van Reenen each scoring a goal.
Next up was the
U/23 Ladies against Argentina. After a tough start they won 6-1.
Captain Eleanor de Kock scored a goal and the team’s man of the
match ZandrŅ Coetzee, scored 3 goals with Jordynne Elferink
contributing the opening goal (a making it one each for the Elferink
siblings) and Thea Rothman also contributing.
The U/19 Ladies
then played their 2nd match of the day against Canada,
beating them 8-0. Chrizanne Smit, Helen van Rhyn and Daniel Wentzel
each scored 2 goals with Nina Adams and Oliva Langston also making
contributions. Helen made in the 2nd sibling double of the
day after sister Lise scored in the 1st match.
Next on the
roster for SA was the u/23 Men who won a very hard match against
Argentina 3 – 1. after a very balanced battle throughout the
match. Again it was the captain Elrich Engelbrecht (2011 U/19 gold
medalist) scoring 2 with JP van Zyl scoring the 3rd.
The U/19 men then
played Great Britain and after conceding two early goals, they lost
3-1 with Khardan Ruocchio scoring the only goal for SA.
Last game of the
day for the U/19 Women who play a double round robin and 3 games on
some days was Great Britain and the ladies won 3-0, making for a
hard but successful day in the pool for them. Goals where scored by
Nicole Smit, Helen van Rhyn and “Spoetnik Gonsalez” Lise van
Rhyn
Tomorrow
the U/23 ladies are in for a very hard battle against New Zealand
while the U/23 Men play Australia. The U/19 men play Great Britain
and the U/19 Ladies play Columbia (who is always a force to be
reckoned with) and also host Australia.
While
it is only day one and the teams have a long way to go, we celebrate
a successful day for South Africa on day 1 of the Underwater Hockey
World Championships.
De
Wet Coetzee (Parent)
Cell
072 024 9801
E-mail zandrewitblitz@gmail.com
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