England’s women continued their domination of the women’s tournament in the European Indoor Nations Challenge in Sheffield with another high scoring performance. Sweden, who had come here as one of the stronger women’s teams, were England’s victims this evening. Cathy Gilliat-Smith, opened the scoring after eight minutes and went on to score three more. Other goals came from Emma Thomas, Alex Scott, and Sally Walton (2) in this 9-0 win.
The women’s competition is being played on a different basis to the men’s and the top two teams after the round-robin stage meet in the final at 14:30 tomorrow. England, who are on maximum points, will play Denmark for the gold medals and promotion to the Nations Trophy.
The men’s competition is entirely on a round-robin basis and England play Finland tomorrow in their last match. With two promotion places up for grabs, Sweden currently lead the table on twelve points, with England and Croatia both on nine. However, England have the superior goal difference, +18 as opposed to +11. Finland have been one of the outsiders in this competition and Croatia and Sweden are due to play each other, so England’s prospects of filling one of the two places look good.
Our photograph shows Cathy Gilliat-Smith in goal scoring mode in the match against Sweden this evening.
