Goalie’s hockey feat
Lesley Shanklarid. accomplished a feat- she will prob-ably-never repeat when the New Zealand women’s hockey : team? played the first match of 1 its five-week overseas tour against Hong Kong on Monday. Normally the team’s first string goal-keeper, Miss Shankland played on the left-wing against Hong Kong and scored her first goal for New Zealand in the side’s runaway 12-1 win. It was. a pleasing start to the tour which will take the side to Great Britain and the United States in the next few weeks. On the United States leg of the tour it will meet the top teams in the world — West Germany and the Netherlands — and attempt to maintain the high ranking it has won in the last seven years.
Goal scorers in New Zealand’s win against Hong Kong were: Marianne Gray 4, Shirley- Haig 3, Harina Kohere 2, Edie Weber, Gail Rodbourne and : Miss Shankland.
The team captain, Jenny McDonald, is already in Britain and will play for the international women’s hockey President’s XI against the Netherlands at Ayr, in Scotland, on Saturday. The tour, which according to the team, manager, Gladys O’Brien when she spoke to the NZPA: in London, is a “poor compromise” for the Olympic Games, starts its British leg with a game against' Scottish XI on Monday. or Tuesday,
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