Stingers win dress rehearsal

World´s number five Australia is the winner of the 2011 Canada Cup. The Stingers remained unbeaten in the highly-competitive women´s six-nation tournament which was held at Montreal and gained an 11-8 victory in today´s gold medal match against World Championships runners-up China. Home team Canada took the bronze medal by a 14-11 victory against Hungary to lock out all European teams from the medal spots. The Netherlands finished fifth, beating Spain 8-7. Australia´s Kelsey Wakefield was awarded best goalkeeper.

 
 
 
Canada Cup 2011 – Women´s Six-Nation-Tournament at Montreal, Canada
 
Results round-robin matches
 
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
17:00 Hungary vs. Australia 8-12 (1-2, 5-5, 1-3, 1-2)
18:30 Netherlands vs. China 4-7 (3-1, 0-2, 0-3 1-1)
20:00 Canada vs. Spain 8-9 (2-3, 2-3 1-1, 3-2)
 
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
17:00 Spain vs. Australia 11-12 (4-1, 1-3, 4-5, 2-3)
18:30 Netherlands vs. Hungary 14-16 (5-3, 5-5, 1-3, 3-5)
20:00 Canada vs. China 12-11 (6-2, 1-2, 5-5, 0-2)
 
Thursday, 15 December 2011
17:00 China vs. Hungary 11-10 (2-4, 4-2, 1-2, 4-0)
18:30 Spain vs. Netherlands 7-11 (1-5, 3-4, 1-0, 2-2)
20:00 Canada vs. Australia 8-9 (2-3, 3-1, 1-3, 2-2)
  
Friday, 16 December 2011
17:00 China vs. Spain 16:13 (4-3, 5-3, 4-5, 3-3)
18:30 Australia vs. Netherlands 6-6 (3-3, 1-0, 1-0, 1- 3)
20:00 Canada vs. Hungary 9-14 (2-3, 4-3, 2-6, 1-2)
Saturday, 17 December 2011
17:00 Australia vs. China 7-7 (1-2, 2-2, 2-3, 4-2)
18:30 Hungary vs. Spain 13-8 (6-2, 2-3, 3-2, 2-1)
20:00 Canada vs. Netherlands 7-6 (0-1, 2-2, 3-2, 2-1)
      
Final standings round-robin matches: Australia 8, China 7, Hungary 6, Canada 4, Netherlands 3, Spain 2.
 
 
 
Medal matches
 
Sunday, 18 December 2011
10:30 Spain vs. Netherlands 7-8 (0-0, 1-2, 5-3, 1-3) - game for 5th place
12:00 Hungary vs. Canada 11-14 (5-4, 1-1, 3-4 2-5) - game for 3rd place
13:30 China vs. Australia 8-11 (0-4, 3-2, 4-4 1-1) - final game
 
 
 
 Tournament awards
 
Top scorer: Gabrielle Szucs (HUN) - 16 goals
 
Best goalkeeper: Kelsey Wakefield (AUS)
 
All-star team
1. Kelsey Wakefield (AUS)
2. Iefke van Belkum (NED)
3. Mari Carmen Garcia (ESP)
4. Rita Dravucz (HUN)
5. Carmen Eggens (CAN)
6. Sun Tujun (CHN)
7. Glencora Ralph (AUS)