Nigel Si­mon

Blair Wynne scored two sec­ond half goals as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Notre Dame came from a two-goal deficit to earn a 3-3 draw with ri­vals Shandy Carib Mag­no­lias when the T&T Hock­ey Board Women's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion re­sumed at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre, Tacarigua, on Sat­ur­day af­ter the Car­ni­val break.

Win­ners of their two pre­vi­ous match­es, 4-3 over Courts Malvern and 4-1 against Ven­tures, the Dames were con­fi­dent of se­cur­ing a third straight win.

How­ev­er, Mag­no­lias took a 12th minute lead through na­tion­al teenaged for­ward Bri­an­na Govia and ten min­utes lat­er, her for­mer na­tion­al team-mate, Mi­ka El­la Tang made it 2-0.

In the 29th minute Jea­nine Drakes scored for Notre Dame to re­duce the mar­gin to 2-1 at the break.

Ten min­utes af­ter the re-start Mag­no­lias re­gained its two-goal cush­ion with an­oth­er na­tion­al teenaged play­er, Elise Olton on tar­get.

But Wynne was hav­ing none of its and re­spond­ed with two quick goals for the Dames, first a penal­ty-cor­ner con­ver­sion in the 48th minute and then with­in the blink of an eye with a field to lev­el the match at 3-3.

In the end, both clubs had to set­tle for a share of the points. This left the Dames on top with sev­en points af­ter three match­es, one ahead of Paragon which has played two match­es.

Shawn Lee Quay net­ted a hat-trick to lead Queen's Park to a com­fort­able 4-1 whip­ping of the pre­vi­ous­ly un­beat­en Notre Dame in their top-of-the-ta­ble Men's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion clash.

Lee Quay got the open­er in the eighth minute as the Parkites looked set to add to its vic­to­ries against Fa­ti­ma (1-0) and Malvern (3-0). He added a sec­ond in the 32nd minute which his team took in­to the in­ter­val.

Three min­utes af­ter the re­sump­tion, Shaquille Daniel pulled a goal back for the Dames who were al­so seek­ing a third straight win, af­ter beat­ing Malvern (5-0) and Fa­ti­ma (3-1) in their pre­vi­ous en­coun­ters.

But that was as close as Daniel and his team-mates would get as Lee Quay then com­plet­ed his hat-trick in the 53rd for a 3-1 ad­van­tage while Jar­ry­on Paul got a fourth item, a minute from full-time.

The gloss on the Parkites win was slight­ly re­moved as na­tion­al mid­field­er Ste­fan Mout­tet was shown a red card in the 65th minute, a minute af­ter his first cau­tion for dis­sent to leave his team to fin­ish the match with ten men.

T&T Hock­ey Board re­sults

Fri­day: Trin­i­ty Men–QPCC 4 (Jar­ry­on Paul 26th, 69th, Nicholas Ca­ma­cho 2nd, Damien Bright 62nd) vs Notre Dame 1 (Danil Transcoso 13th)

Sat­ur­day: Un­der-19 Boys–Malvern 3 vs QPCC 0–QPCC un­able to field a team

Un­der-19 Girls: Har­vard Check­ers 3 (Ifir­ma Woodroffe 9th, 18th, Michaela Jones 61st) vs Paragon 1 (Mari­ah Bou­caud 45th)

Mixed Vet­er­ans: QPCC 13 (Gary Grif­fith 20th, 26th, 33rd, 65th, Jer­azano Bell 11th, 49th, 56th, Gary Chin 36th, 46th, Christo­pher Aird 38th, 69th, Azad Ali 29th, Raphael Govia 41st) vs Fa­ti­ma 0

Trin­i­ty Women: Har­vard Check­ers 3 (Reyah Richard­son 43rd, Michaela Jones 45th, Fiona Le Blanc 52nd) vs Paragon 1 (Mari­ah Samp­son 69th)

Cham­pi­onship Women: Notre Dame 3 (Blair Wynne 48th, 49th, Jea­nine Drakes 29th) vs SC Mag­no­lias 3 (Bri­an­na Govia 12th, Mi­ka El­la Tang 22nd, Elise Olton 45th)

Cham­pi­onship Men: QPCC 4 (Shawn Lee Quay 8th, 32nd, 53rd, Jar­ry­on Paul 69th) vs Notre Dame 1 (Shaquille Daniel 38th)