By
Paul Cross
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LEUT Andrew Bewick, RANR, blasts a shot at goal from just
inside the circle for the ADF Men’s 40s against Tuggeranong
during the Australian Masters Games in Canberra.
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Photo:
Michael Weaver
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ADF
hockey players displayed the Midas touch at the recent Australian
Masters Games in Canberra to bring home two gold medals and a
silver.
The Men’s 40s and 30s both ended the competition as champions,
while the women were pipped at the post for silver.
Teams organiser LCDR Brian Froome said this was the best result
that ADF Hockey had achieved, surpassing the Newcastle Masters’
single gold medal.
“The final game of the Men’s 40s went down to penalty
strokes, after a nil-all score at full time, which we won 3-1,”
he said.
“In the Men’s 30s, the team they played in the final
beat them in the first round 2-1, but in the final everything
clicked and they flogged them 8-2 – they just couldn’t
seem to do a thing wrong.
This
is not unusual with our teams; because we have people from all
over the country it can take up to the second or third day before
they start working as a team.”
He said the women lost the final 2-0 but held their opposition
out on several occasions.
“We had an age spread in the women’s team from 30 to
47 competing against 30- to 35-year-olds in the other teams and
when you are doing 25m sprints backwards and forwards it takes
it out of you.”
LCDR Froome said the standard of the competition was high but
because there were a limited number of teams playing the early
rounds were played across age groups.
“All age groups played against each other so we had the ADF
40s playing the ADF 30s at one stage – which ended up in
a draw – but up until the final game the ADF 40s were higher
on the ladder and teams the 30s lost to, the 40s beat.”
