Slough's dreams of being the first British team to lift the Women's Eurohockey Club Championship Cup, now in its 36th year, were extinguished in the heated atmosphere here in the Netherlands yesterday when they were thrashed 5-0 by the host club Den Bosch in their second game of the weekend's championship.
The Dutch club playing powerful, well drilled hockey looked well on their way to a record tenth successive title. Den Bosch who had been only last weekend piped by Amsterdam in the Dutch play-offs for the National title after a remarkable run of 11 years quickly threw off the shadow of that disappointment to regain their convincing form by disposing of Royal Antwerp 8-0 on Friday.
Slough who had been disappointing, drawing 2-2 in their opening game against Atasport from Azerbaijan, were yesterday always struggling against the well oiled Dutch machine. They were never in contention after 23 year old Dutch Sports Science student Maatje Paumen scored the first of her four goalls in the fifth minute. Slough's chances were limited to one penalty corner and a half chance from open play. Only courageous goalkeeping from Sarah Ellis kept the score within bounds.
Day2 Results:
Pool A:
Atasport (Aze) 8 Royal Antwerp 2
Den Bosch 5 Slough 0
Pool B:
CD Terrassa 4 Volga Telecom 2
Berliner 2 Sumchanka (Ukr) 0
