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Three local hockey players bagged gold medals at last month’s Hockey NZ Masters tournament, with two of them shooting the winning goals.
Colin Chester and Merv Huxford competed with the North Harbour 65s, which beat Canterbury 1-0 to take gold, thanks to a shot which Merv fired into the goal in the dying seconds of the game. Former Blackstick Dave Kosoof was in the North Harbour 40s, which beat Wellington 2-1 in their final – a “stinging tomahawk” goal struck by Dave took the win.
All three players are trustees of the Hibiscus Hockey Trust, based at Metro Park East in Millwater.
The weeklong tournament featured more than 1150 players. Merv says that most of the hockey venues and towns are now too small to accommodate the tournament, and it will be spread around different age group tournaments and locations from now on.
