The brand new-look Hockeyroos have made a profitable return to worldwide hockey after securing a 2-0 trans-Tasman sequence victory over New Zealand in Auckland.Key factors:Rebecca Greiner and Brooke Peris scored the Hockeyroos' targetsThe Black Sticks had opened the scoring by Megan HullThe Hockeyroos additionally received the second match of the sequenceThe world quantity two-ranked Hockeyroos entered …
The brand new-look Hockeyroos have made a profitable return to worldwide hockey after securing a 2-0 trans-Tasman sequence victory over New Zealand in Auckland.
The world quantity two-ranked Hockeyroos entered Sunday’s fourth and remaining match within the field seat after posting a win and two attracts earlier within the sequence.
However the sequence was on edge after Black Sticks captain Megan Hull scored towards the run of play within the 14th minute on Sunday.
Objectives from Rebecca Greiner and Brooke Peris lifted the Hockeyroos to a 2-1 win, making certain the Australian girls’s hockey crew got here up trumps of their first worldwide sequence since final yr’s Tokyo Olympics.
Edwina Bone, Emily Chalker, Ashlee Wells, Rachael Lynch, and Kate Jenner all retired following the Hockeryoos’ shock quarter-final loss to India in Tokyo.
Hockeyroos coach Katrina Powell chosen 11 gamers with 17 caps or much less for the sequence towards New Zealand.
The Hockeyroos’ intent to wrap the sequence up was clear from the outset on Sunday.
Hannah Cullum-Sanders narrowly missed getting on the tip of a looking Shanea Tonkin move from shut vary, and the Hockeyroos had 4 penalty corners contained in the opening 4 minutes.
Hull’s objective threw the competition broad open as New Zealand eyed an upset, however the Hockeyroos managed to equalise within the twenty third minute courtesy of some robust build-up play.
Courtney Schonell, making her first look within the sequence, did nicely to carry the ball up within the circle earlier than sending it throughout to a harmful spot for Greiner, who managed to get a vital contact that noticed the ball trickle beneath goalkeeper Brooke Roberts and over the objective line.
Then 4 minutes into the third quarter the Hockeyroos have been in entrance when a elegant Steph Kershaw move discovered Peris at full tempo and behind the Black Sticks defence.
With simply substitute goalkeeper Grace O’Hanlon to beat in objective, Peris transformed the possibility with aplomb, knocking her shot on the reverse fantastically over the encroaching keeper to attain her third objective of the sequence.
The sequence win will give the Hockeyroos a confidence increase forward of the Ladies’s World Cup and the Commonwealth Video games.
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