Hockeymen for world indoors
TRINIDAD AND Tobago men’s hockey team will compete at the 2006 Indoor World Cup in Vienna, Austria, by virtue of their second-place finish at the Pan American Indoors yesterday. The three-day Pan Am contest was staged at the Rim Park, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. With the men’s finalists assured of a spot in Austria, the TT lads needed to defeat the United States in Saturday’s semi-final to secure a World Cup berth. It was not going to be easy but, in the end, TT needed overtime to defeat the Americans 5-4. In yesterday’s final against hosts Canada, the national team put up a brave fight but were beaten by a 5-3 margin while. And in the third-place play-off, the Americans also needed overtime to get past Guyana 7-6. Neighbours Canada and USA battled for the women’s gold medal, with the hosts prevailing 2-1 while the TT lasses copped bronze with an 8-0 demolition of Venezuela.
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"Hockeymen for world indoors"