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USA Field Hockey Women Drop Overtime Heartbreaker to England in World Cup Qualifier Semifinal
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ROME - England's Chloe Rogers scored on a penalty corner after time expired in over time to hand the USA Field Hockey national team a 1-0 loss in the semifinals of the World Cup Qualifying Tournament.

Both the USA and England had already qualified for September's World Cup as the loss drops the USA into the 3rd/4th place game against the loser of Thursday's Korea/Japan semifinal.

"It's a heartbreaker," said U.S. coach Lee Bodimeade. "But you look at the positive it's where we want to be and where we want to head these are the games we want to play in and the games we want to come out on top of."

The USA survived two penalty corner attempts to end the first half, but were not as lucky when England was awarded a penalty corner at the end of the 15-minute overtime period.

With time expired, the USA successful blocked England's first shot attempt, but Rogers collected the rebound and fired it into the U.S. goal to prevent a penalty stroke shootout and send England into the tournament final.

The USA endured eight England penalty corner attempts until the final game-winning try. The USA did not attempt a penalty corner in the 85 minutes of play.

"We persisted for a long period s of time I thought we had some opportunities and were a bit unlucky that we didn't take them," said Bodimeade. "Give the English credit, they had control for periods of the game. But as the game went on I thought we really kicked it into gear and had the better of the overtime period."

The USA's Angie Loy (Loysville, Pa.) had a chance to give USA the sudden-death victory in the first overtime period, but her shot was blocked by England keeper Carolyn Reid. Loy again drove into the circle moments later but her partially deflected shot rolled slowly past the right side of the goal.

"We're taking steps along the way,"  said Bodimeade on his team's progress through the tournament in building for the World Cup. "The opportunity to play in a semifinal in a pretty big tournament is a good lesson for us to learn."

England 1, USA 0
ENG: Chloe Rogers (PC, 85:00)

USA Starters: Angie Loy, Kelly Doton, Rachel Dawson, Tiffany Snow, Sara Silvetti, April Fronzoni, Carrie Lingo, Kate Barber, Amy Tran (GK), Kristi Gannon, Lauren Powley
Coach: Lee Bodimeade
Reserves: Dina Rizzo, Robyn Kenney, Claire Laubach, Melissa Leonetti, Kayla Bashore

England Starters: Carolyn Reid (GK), Lisa Wooding, Crista Cullen, Melanie Clewlow, Helen Richardson, Kate Walsh, Jennie Bimson, Alex Danson, Jo Ellis, Cathy Gilliat-Smith, Rebecca Herbert
Coach: Danny Kerry
 

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