Canadian women lose penalty shootout to India at field hockey World Cup
TERRASSA, Spain — Canada suffered a heartbreaking loss Monday in comfort play on the girls’s area hockey World Cup, conceding a late aim to India after which dropping the following penalty shootout 3-2 after the sport completed 1-1 in regulation time.
Each groups got here to the match in search of their first win of the competitors.
The 14th-ranked Canadian girls moved into comfort placement play after going 0-3-0 in Pool C, dropping 4-1 to No. 5 Spain, 3-2 to No. 13 South Korea and 7-1 to No. 2 Argentina.
No. 9 India completed third in Pool B at 0-1-2, taking part in No. 4 England and No. 11 China to 1-1 attracts earlier than dropping 4-3 to No. 8 New Zealand.
Victoria’s Maddie Secco, on a feed from Kathleen Leahy, opened the scoring through a penalty nook within the tenth minute, solely to see Salima Tete tie the sport within the 57th minute by knocking residence a rebound off Gurjit Kaur’s penalty nook.
Canada led 2-0 within the shootout on targets by Amanda Woodcroft of Waterloo, Ont., and Natalie Sourisseau of Kelowna, B.C., however India pulled even at 2-2. After 14 makes an attempt by the 2 groups, Neha Goyal gave India the win.
“It was most likely our greatest recreation to this point within the match,” mentioned Secco. “We performed to our strengths. … We’re clearly so upset however I’m additionally very happy with (Ottawa goalkeeper Rowan Harris) to save lots of so many shootouts.”
India will now face No. 10 Japan within the ninth-to-Twelfth-place playoffs. Canada has a rematch Wednesday with South Korea within the Thirteenth-to-Sixteenth-place matches.
Canada is making its first look on the World Cup since ending tenth in 1994, which marked the final of six straight appearances on the match. Canada’s finest displaying was a silver medal in 1983, with a bronze in 1986.
The Canadian girls missed out on the earlier six World Cups.
The 16-team World Cup runs via July 18 in Amsterdam and Terrassa, Spain.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 11, 2022
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