Hockey team to tour N.Z.

Press, 7 October 1987, Page 72

Hockey team to tour N.Z.

Five Australian representatives are Included in the Australian Institute of Sport men’s hockey team that will start a 10 match tour of New Zealand on October 31.

The Institute will bring a squad of 17 to New Zealand and it will be coached by two of the key figures in the Australian team that won the World Cup in London last October — Richard Aggiss and Terry -Walsh. Mr Aggls was th* coach

of the Australian team, a position he has held since 1981, and Mr Walsh, the assistant-coach at the A. 1.5., was the key striker in the World Cup team. Dean Evans, a member of the World Cup squad, Andrew Deane, Scott Fitzpatrick, Jay Stacey and Michael York, are the full Australian representatives in the side. All the other members of the squad have played at state level. The chairman of the

New Zealand Hockey Association. Dr Bruce Penfold, said the team was sure to play the adventurous style of hockey for which ? Australian teams are known, and would severely test its New Zealand opposition. The hockey unit of the A.I.S. is based in Perth and the directors have a policy of taking the team overseas regularly. Four games in Whangarei start the tour, and there will be three games

each in Wellington and Christchurch. Two of the games in Wellington will be against the New Zealand juniors and there will be two games in Christchurch against a New Zealand selection. The A.I.S. team is: Ashley Carey, Robbie Clarke, Andrew Deane, Stewart Dearing, Dean Evans, Scott Fitzpatrick, Gary Jennison, Scott Jennison, David Poppenback, David Shaw, Jay. Stacey, Gordon Stimson, David Tilbrook, Robbie Whitehouse, Todd Williams, John Woodley, Michaft York.