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USA Field Hockey Indoor Women Fall to Canada in Final; USA Men Place Third

The USA Field Hockey indoor women's team saw its bid to qualify for the 2007 Indoor World Cup end with a 2-1 loss to Canada in the championship game of the Indoor Pan American Cup in Kitchener, Ontario.

The USA men also missed a chance to qualify for the Indoor World Cup and placed third at the tournament with a 7-6 extra time victory over Guyana in the 3rd/4th place game. Canada won the men's tournament with a 5-3 win over 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. As teh top two men's teams at the Pan Am event, Canada and Trinidad & Tobago will represent the Americas at the Indoor world Cup while women's champion Canada will be the lone continental representative in the women's Indoor World Cup.

In the women's championship game, Canada jumped out to a 1-0 lead when Andrea Rushton connected on a penalty corner goal in the 19th minute. USA goalkeeper Donna Chung and Canada keeper Azelia Liu kept the game scoreless for the remainder of the half.

Canada increased its lead early in the second half on Rushton's second penalty corner goal of the game in the 23rd minute. But two minutes later, the USA's Tara Jelley narrowed the gap to 2-1 on a field goal in the 25th minute.

Neither team could manage a score throughout the remaining 15 minutes of play as Canada held on to clinch its first trip to the Indoor World Cup.

The loss was the first suffered by the USA women as the team went 4-1 during the tournament including a 2-1 win over Canada on the first day of the event.

On the men's side, after a heartbreaking extra-time loss to Trinidad & Tobago to eliminate the team from Indoor World Cup contention on Saturday night, the USA fought back from a 6-2 halftime deficit to defeat Guyana, 7-6 for third place in the tournament.

Steve Danielson scored the game-winning field goal two minutes into extra time to give the USA the victory. Danielson scored three goals on the day while Shawn Hindy added two goals for the USA with Pat Harris and Mickey Harner each contributing a goal in the come-from-behind win.

The U.S. women's team featured 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 included 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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