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USA Field Hockey Indoor Women Qualify for Indoor Pan Am Cup Final; USA Men Fall in Extra Time

The USA Field Hockey indoor women's team advanced to the championship game of the 3rd Pan American Cup in Kitchener, Ontario while the USA men saw their hopes for a top two finish slip away with a 5-4 semifinal loss in extra time to Trinidad & Tobago.

The Indoor Pan Am Cup serves as the continental qualifier for the 2nd Indoor World Cup, Feb. 14-18, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. The USA women can clinch a berth in the Indoor World Cup with a victory over Canada in Sunday's final, while the USA men will miss qualifying for the event after the team appeared in the first Indoor World Cup in 2003. Canada and Trinidad & Tobago will represent the Americas in the men's tournament at the Indoor World Cup.

Undefeated through four games at the tournament, the USA women advanced to the final with an 11-0 rout of Venezuela in the first women's semifinal match. Tara Jelley and Sarah Broderick scored three goals each to help power the U.S. women to the verge of the Pan Am indoor championship.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. women broke open a 2-2 halftime deadlock with three second half goals to defeat Trinidad & Tobago, 5-2. Jen Mathis scored two goals in teh second half to pace the victory.

The U.S. women will face a Canada team that advanced to the final with a 5-1 win over Trinidad & Tobago. The USA defeated Canada earlier in the four-team tournament, 2-1.

In the men's semifinal, Trinidad & Tobago's Dwain Quan Chan score a field goal eight minutes into extra time to hand the USA a 5-4 loss and deny the U.S. men a second straight trip to the Indoor World Cup. Patrick Harris scored three goals for the USA and Sean Hindy scored the game-tying goal on a penalty corner with seven minutes left in regulation to send the game into extra time.

The U.S. men will now play Guyana in the 3rd/4th place match on Sunday.

The U.S. women's team features 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 includes 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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