STORRY SHOWS HER CLASS. Report from Susan Edghill in Rotterdam.

In a prelude to the game tomorrow, the young Indian side narrowly beat South Africa to record their first win on the Four Nations tournament here in Rotterdam. They will hope to emulate this again tomorrow in the 3/4 play-off. But the big story of today is Great Britain’s performance against the Dutch. Beth Storry (pictured) showed why she is GBs number one goalkeeper as she made a number of saves from the Dutch strike force as the Netherlands dominated the first half. The Dutch drew first blood with a 21^st minute penalty corner conversion by Maatje Paumen. However, GB went into a half-time lead with goals from Crista Cullen and Alex Danson. The Netherlands came out fighting in the second half and thought they had equalised but the goal was disallowed and video replays showed the ball had come off the body of the Dutch forward. GB then took a 3-1 lead through Rachel Walker as the Netherlands continued to press. Although they pulled one back through Marilyn Agliotti, from yet another penalty corner, GB held on to score a well deserved win over the Netherlands. They meet again tomorrow in the tournament final.

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Argentina lead the table as they once again showed their class as they outplayed South Korea in another high scoring game. A goal from Matias Paredes gave Argentina a lead at half time. Soon after half-time Jong-Hyun Jang added to his tally from a penalty corner to pull South Korea level, but two goals from Rodrigo Vila and one from Juan Gilardi put Argentina in the driving seat until a penalty stroke from Jone-Hyun Jang made a final score of 4-2. Jang is now equal first with Germany’s Keller in the highest scorers table.

There were no other matches in the Champions Trophy today. Tomorrow (Saturday) sees the last of the preliminary round games, with Germany meeting Spain and the Netherlands playing Australia.