GCC hockey team places eighth in Big Apple tourney

The GCC women’s hockey team.

The Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) female hockey outfit finished in eighth position in the 2022 Big Apple International Indoor Hockey Championship in Spring City, Pennsylvania, USA yesterday, after ending with a record of one win and four losses.

In the 7-8 placement encounter of the two day tournament, Philly Hockey Club (PHC) defeated GCC 1-0 on penalty strikes after regulation time ended 1-1. All three of GCC’s attempts to score from distance failed.

Prior to the shoot-out, Aliyah Gordon equalised for the Guyanese in the 22nd minute, after Rhiannon Holt had pushed PHC into the initial lead in the ninth minute.