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Columnist for The Hockey Paper and the man behind The Top of the D. Writer, podcaster, goalkeeper and BBC Sport man. Used to work for Great Britain Hockey and have covered the sport at every major tournament.

Investec World League 3rd/4th Place Playoff: Argentina 3-2 China.

Two goals from Argentina’s Carla Rebecchi, the second of which with just 24 seconds left on the clock gave Las Leonas the third place in this competition as they edged out China by three goals to two.

The game had looked set for a penalty shootout as goals from Meiyu Liang and Hongxia Li with her seventh of the competition had tied the game up at 2-2. However, Rebecchi had other ideas.
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Investec World League 5th/6th Playoff: USA 6-0 Italy.

Paige Selenski scored a fantastic hat-trick to give the USA 5th place in this competition as Italy were blitzed by a ruthless Stars and Stripes in their final game.

USA led 1-0 at half time but ran riot in the second period as Italy’s exertions from the earlier games this week, finally caught up with them and they just didn’t have enough.  Continue reading

Investec World League Semi Final: England 4-2 Argentina.

England set up a dream final with Australia with a superb performance against old foes Argentina, running out 4-2 winners in front of a packed house here in London.

Goals from Nicola White, Hannah MacLeod, Susannah Townsend and an own goal gave England their second win in 14 games against Las Leonas, bucking the recent trend of defeats.  Continue reading