Nigel Si­mon

Cap­tain Alan­na Lewis was among the scor­ers as this coun­try's se­nior women's hock­ey team whipped host Brazil 3-1 to end a run of loss­es, three, in the six-team Sec­ond Round qual­i­fiers of the FIH World Hock­ey League when they bat­tle host Brazil at the De­odoro Field Hock­ey Cen­tre, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, yes­ter­day.

Both the "Ca­lyp­so Stick­women," ranked 27th in the world and Brazil en­tered the match with­out a point and in the 15th minute Lewis fired T&T ahead, while sev­en min­utes lat­er, Blair Wynne, the scor­er of T&T's lone goal in a 6-1 loss to Uruguay, made it 2-0 for a half-time score.

On the re­sump­tion, the Brazil­ians took the match to T&T and pulled with­in one goal when cap­tain Pa­tri­cia Boos scored in the 47th minute, how­ev­er, that was as close as it came as Krizia Layne added a third for T&T on the stroke of full-time to seal her team's first win to move off the foot of the ta­ble.

To­day, T&T will con­clude its par­tic­i­pa­tion at the tour­na­ment with an 8 pm meet­ing with USA, which has ten points af­ter beat­ing Chile 2-1 in a close en­counter.Emi­ly Wold (40th) and Melis­sa Gon­za­lez (65th) hand­ed the Amer­i­cans a 2-0 lead be­fore Camil­la Caram got a 68th-minute con­so­la­tion for Chile, as it dropped its first points in four match­es.

In yes­ter­day's late match, Uruguay (three points) came up against Scot­land (eight points) ahead of to­day's fi­nal set of match­es which al­so in­cludes Chile against Scot­land at 10 am, fol­lowed by Uruguay and Brazil at 12 pm.

At the end of the six-team round-robin se­ries on Sun­day, the two high­est fin­ish­ers will se­cure places in round three.

Yes­ter­day's match­es:

T&T 3 (Alan­na Lewis 15th, Blair Wynne 22nd, Krizia Layne 70th) vs Brazil 1 (Patrice Boos 47th)

Chile 2 (Emi­ly Wold 40th, Melis­sa Gon­za­les 65th) vs USA 1 (Camil­la Caram 68th)

Re­main­ing fix­tures:

To­day:

USA vs T&T, 8 am

Scot­land vs Chile, 10 am

Uruguay vs Brazil, noon