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Calypso Stickwomen face Peru in must-win match

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T&T’s Shaniah De Freitas, left and Zene Henry, double team USA’s Erin Matson during their Group B opener of the 2022 Women’s Pan American Cup at the Prince of Wales Country Club, La Reina, Santiago, Chile on Wednesday. USA won 16-0. Photo: PAHF.

T&T’s Shaniah De Freitas, left and Zene Henry, double team USA’s Erin Matson during their Group B opener of the 2022 Women’s Pan American Cup at the Prince of Wales Country Club, La Reina, Santiago, Chile on Wednesday. USA won 16-0. Photo: PAHF.

Jaramillo Rodrigo

T&T se­nior hock­ey­women will be ea­ger to re­bound from their 16-0 drub­bing against USA on Wednes­day when they come up against Pe­ru in their sec­ond Group B match, a must-win fix­ture in the Pan Amer­i­can Cup at the Prince of Wales Coun­try Club, La Reina, San­ti­a­go, Chile from 1 pm on Fri­day (Jan­u­ary 21).

The Pan Am Cup is a qual­i­fi­er for the 2022 Women's FIH Hock­ey World Cup which will be the 15th edi­tion of the Women's FIH Hock­ey World Cup, and will be held in Ter­ras­sa, Spain and Am­stelveen, the Nether­lands from Ju­ly 1-17, 2022.

With USA and Cana­da, who crushed Pe­ru 14-0 in their open­er ex­pect­ed to bat­tle it out for the au­to­mat­ic semi­fi­nal spot as group win­ners, the fight is on be­tween the An­tho­ny Mar­cano-coached T&T women and Pe­ru to fin­ish third and earn the fi­nal spot avail­able to the cross-over quar­ter­fi­nals be­hind the sec­ond-placed group fin­ish­ers.

To­day's meet­ing be­tween the 48th-ranked “Ca­lyp­so Stick­women” and the 34th-ranked Pe­ru will be the third in re­cent times with both teams split­ting their du­els at the Pan Amer­i­can Women Chal­lenge, the qual­i­fi­er for this com­pe­ti­tion, last Sep­tem­ber in Li­ma, Pe­ru.

When both teams met in the round-robin stage of the four-team qual­i­fy­ing event, T&T got a last gasp goal from Bri­an­na Govia to earn a 1-0 win.

How­ev­er, the Pe­ru­vians had the last laugh and ex­act­ed re­venge in the fi­nal, 2-0 set­ting the stage for an in­ter­est­ing match-up this time around.

For to­day's en­counter coach Mar­cano and his 18-mem­ber squad will start as slight favourites though with the in­clu­sion of sev­en more ex­pe­ri­enced play­ers in the team who were not part of the team in Li­ma. In­clu­sive of Long Is­land Uni­ver­si­ty quar­tet of Fe­li­cia King, and the Olton sis­ters, Kait­lyn, Saman­tha and Saarah as well as USA-based Tamia Roach, and Aus­tralian-based Kim­ber­ly Young.

On the oth­er hand, the Pe­ru­vians have on­ly trav­elled with 15 play­ers, one of whom was not part of the con­tin­gent for their last meet­ing with T&T.

In to­day's oth­er match­es, 15th-ranked USA and 13th-ranked Cana­da lock horns from 3.15 pm in Group B while in the lone Group A match, third-ranked Ar­genti­na buoyed by its 6-0 de­feat of Uruguay faces Chile, ranked 18th from 5.30 pm.

On Sun­day's (Jan­u­ary 23) fi­nal day of round-robin, the lo­cal women play Cana­da from 1 pm while USA plays Pe­ru from 3.15 pm, and in Pool A, Chile meets Uruguay from 5.30 pm.

At the end of the round-robin pool play, the top team from each pool will ad­vance di­rect­ly to the main draw semi­fi­nals on Jan­u­ary 27 while the sec­ond and third-placed teams in each pool meet in cross-over quar­ter­fi­nals two days ear­li­er to de­ter­mine the two re­main­ing semi­fi­nal qual­i­fiers.

Both fi­nal­ists and the third-place fin­ish­ers in the Pan Amer­i­can com­pe­ti­tion which ends on Jan­u­ary 29 will earn places at the 16-team FIH World Cup.

This is the fourth time the T&T women are ap­pear­ing in the com­pe­ti­tion af­ter mak­ing their de­but in 2004 in Bar­ba­dos when they end­ed eighth.

T&T then qual­i­fied in 2009 and placed fourth in Bermu­da, and four years lat­er they end­ed sev­enth in Ar­genti­na.

Re­main­ing sched­ule:

Jan­u­ary 21:

Pe­ru vs T&T, 1 pm

USA vs Cana­da, 3.15 pm

Chile vs Ar­genti­na, 5.30 pm

Jan­u­ary 23:

Cana­da vs T&T, 2 pm

Pe­ru vs USA, 4.15 pm

Uruguay vs Chile, 5.30 pm

Jan­u­ary 25:

Cross-Over quar­ter­fi­nals

2nd Pool A vs 3rd Pool B, 3 pm

2nd Pool B vs 3rd Pool A, 5.30 pm

Jan­u­ary 27:

5th to 6th play­off, 12.30 pm

Semi­fi­nals: 3 pm & 5.30 pm

Jan­u­ary 30:

Third place and Fi­nal play­offs, 3 pm & 5.30 pm


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