Category archives for: Hockey

Final chance for hockey stars to impress

Rising hockey stars will have a final chance to impress national selectors ahead of September’s Junior World Cup qualifier when they meet at the national student hockey champs at the University of Johannesburg next month. The University Sport South Africa (USSA) championships will see teams from 19 tertiary institutions, as well as a Namibian invitational […]

SA hockey girls hammered by Germany

The match to determine third and fouth place in the six nations Investec London Cup was played between South Africa and Germany in Cheswick, London on Sunday. Defensive errors, poor goalkeeping and the inability to finish some good moves saw the South Africans go behind 6-1 and eventually lose 6-2 to end fourth in the […]

SA hockey girls pipped by the Dutch

The Netherlands and Australia will meet in Sunday’s Investec London Cup final after winning their respective semifinals in dramatic fashion. The Dutch let slip a 2-0 lead against South Africa and were taken to  a shoot-out competition but held their nerve to win it 4-2, while Australia roared back from 2-0 down to beat Germany […]

SA hockey team go down 1-0 to Germany

A 30th-minute goal by Eileen Hoffman was enough to give Germany a 1-0 victory over South Africa in their Investec London Cup clash in Cheswick on Wednesday night. If it wern’t for the German keeper Kristina Reynolds, the South Africans could have scored at least three goals as Sulette Damons had another blinder in the […]

SA women’s hockey team stun Great Britain 3-1

In a rainly London Town, the South African women’s hockey team stunned the host nation in the Investec London Cup by beating them 3-1. An early goal by Sulette Damons gave South Africa the lead after just four minutes, then a brilliant strike by substitute Bernadette Coston 10 minutes later saw the South Africans go […]

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