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USA Field Hockey Indoor Men & Women Open First Day of Action at Indoor Pan Am Cup

The USA Field Hockey indoor women's team recorded a perfect 2-0 start while the USA men opened at 2-1 at the 3rd Pan american Cup in Kitchener, Ontario.

The Indoor Pan Am Cup serves as the continental qualifier for the 2nd Indoor World Cup, Feb. 14-18, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. The top two finishers in the men's Pan Am event and the top finisher in the women's division are scheduled to qualify for the Indoor World Cup.

The USA women opened the tournament with a crucial 2-1 win over co-favorite Canada as Jen Mathias scored both goals for the USA. Mathias added four more goals in a 10-0 victory over Venezuela to keep the USA women perfect on the day. the U.S. team will try to clinch the number one seed in round-robin semifinals when the team takes on Trinidad & Tobago (1-1) on Saturday.

The USA finished the first day of competition with a 2-1 record after recording early victories over Guyana (4-2) and Venezuela (6-2) before falling to Trinidad & Tobabo (8-0) in the final game of the opening day. The USA is currently in third place in the men's division with a final game remaining against Canada (2-0) before the start of crossover matches. Patrick Harris leads the USA men in scoring with four goals - including a hat trick effort against  Venezuela - while Jeremy Cook has added three goals for the USA.

The U.S. women's team includes goalkeepers Donna Chung (Canton, Mass.) and Jill Dedman (Orange, Conn.), Tara Jelley (San Diego, Calif.), Sarah Broderick (Harwich, Mass.), Sandra Cook (Festerville, Pa.), Meredith Randall (Cambridge, Mass.),  Kristen Holmes-Winn (Princeton, N.J.), Debbie Phillips (West Chester, Pa.), Tina McDavitt (Boston, Mass.), Lauren Mazziotto (Sewell, N.J.), Jen Nixon-Mathis (Dorchester, Mass.) a Denise Zelenak (Wilmington, Del.).

The U.S. men's team include goalkeeper Charles Carney (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Jeremy Cook (Philadelphia, Pa.),  Patrick Cota (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Steve Danielson (San Diego, Calif.), goalkeeper Brett Dunn (Fairfax, Va.), Zachary Freundlich (Wayland, Mass.), Mick Harner (Hanover, Pa.), Patrick Harris (Moorpark, Calif.), Shawn Hindy (Westlake Village, Calif.), Jesse Larson (Westminster, Md.), Gus Reed (Wainscott, N.Y.) and Sabastian Scheurer (Greenwich, Conn.).
 

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