Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Chloe represents Waikato at the Collier Cup




Current DLU student Chloe has played every minute of every game this week for Waikato in the inter-provincial Collier Cup girls hockey tournament in Hamilton. The team won pool games against Horowhenua, Wellington, Eastern Southland, and Hawkes Bay, and losing to Canterbury B, but still ended up finishing top of their pool. The match against Hawkes Bay was a top of the table clash in Pool B and vitally important for positioning going into the knock out round starting the next day. They played Pool D runners-up Manawatu in the quarter finals and won 2-0 to advance to the semi-finals and make the top 4! However, they came up against a strong Northland team losing 4-1, and faced Tauranga in the playoff for 3rd and 4th. At the end of regular time, the score was 1-1, so faced golden goal extra time. Unfortunately Tauranga scored to win the match, so the Waikato girls ended up in 4th place out of 24 teams, still a great result. Well done Chloe and the rest of the team.