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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
MELBOURNE: Defending champions Australia stormed to the top of the standings in the men’s field hockey Champions Trophy with a crushing 7-2 victory over title rivals Netherlands on Sunday.
It was the highest margin for a win by Australia over the Netherlands in their 31 encounters at Champions Trophy tournaments. The hosts stretched their unbeaten run over the Dutch to six Trophy encounters with a dominating display to back up their opening day 4-0 rout of South Korea.
In the day’s other matches, South Korea came from a goal down early in the second half to beat Olympic champions Germany 5-3 and Spain equalised in the last three minutes to draw 3-3 with England. Grant Schubert scored a first-half hat-trick as the Australians went to half-time 5-1 up and in firm control.
The Netherlands scored first, a second-minute penalty corner to Taeke Taekema,
but the Kookaburras hit back with Schubert’s triple and debut Trophy goals to Brett Dancer and Glenn Turner, extinguishing any hopes of a Dutch win.
Luke Doerner hit Australia’s sixth goal before Jamie Dwyer scored Australia’s last goal. Robert Kemperman scored on a breakaway for a Dutch consolation goal in the last minutes. Monday was a rest day and the tournament resumes on Tuesday (today).
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