With a victory over Germany on the final weekend of the season, England’s women’s hockey team avoided being eliminated from the Pro League.
With 100 seconds left, Elizabeth Neal and Sabbie Heesh’s save from a penalty stroke in the sixth minute ensured that they would unquestionably top the nine-team table in Berlin.
In the second match on Sunday, Germany won 4-2 to keep their own record of surviving, putting India in the ascendancy and putting England in seventh place overall.
Jacob Payton’s goal was the only goal scored in their opening game on Saturday in Antwerp, which they comfortably lost to 3-1.
In a thrilling 4-4 draw, Zachary Wallace, Phil Roper, Will Calnan, and Liam Sanford scored in a much closer match.
The hosts were awarded a penalty when that happened, but Wallace, Roper, and Stuart Rushmere botched their chances to make it 3-0.
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Source: BBC
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