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May 05, 2015 Sports
The GCC ladies hockey team went into their third day of competition as their gruelling 5-match schedule continued, at the Eastern Regional Sports Centre in Trinidad.
Notre Dame Club featuring star T&T striker Blair Wynne were the first opponents of the day with an 11:30am start in the scorching sunshine.
With GCC appearing the more complete of the two sides, a solo run by the swift Wynne produced a penalty corner for Notre Dame in the 3rd minute of play.
Wynne stepped up for the penalty corner strike and though her initial shot was blocked by goalkeeper Briawna Gordon, who was having an outstanding tournament, Wynne was first onto the rebound and smashed it into the GCC net to give her side a one goal lead.
GCC equalized two minutes later when Captain Sonia Jardine found striker Shebiki Baptiste with an accurate pass which she colected, turned and hammered home her shot past the goalkeeper.
The roles would be reversed in the final minute of the first quarter as a GCC counterattack finished with Baptiste drawing the Notre Dame goalkeeper and sliding her pass to Jardine in support to finish into the open net.
Despite GCC’s dominance of the possession, Wynne proved a menace for the Guyanese side and leveled the scores at 2-2 by netting her second rebound shot in the 17th minute.
Midway through the second half, Kerensa Fernandes sealed the 3-2 victory for GCC with a penalty corner strike on the near post.
GCC’s second match of the day and final for their trip was against the powerful Checkers that featured several national players for the Twin-Island Republic.
It was expected to be the toughest game on the schedule for the Guyanese, but GCC ladies rose to the challenge and kept the game close all the way through.
With GCC squandering a handful of goal-scoring chances in the first half, Trinidad national midfielder Cristina Abreu completed a well-executed penalty corner routine to give her side a 1-0 lead with eight minutes remaining on the clock.
Both teams continued to share possession of the ball right down to the final whistleand GCC would run out of time to find the equalizer.
The team returned home on Sunday evening and will have two weeks to prepare for their return trip on May 16th.
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