Illawarra South Coast are still the NSW state indoor hockey champions.
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This indoor tradition has continued for many years and will seemingly last forever given the talented junior indoor hockey players in the region.
It just shows the excellence and physique of the Illawarra team in topping the pool and facing their own second team in the semis.
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In the final, the team easily beat Metro South West 12-1 in a one-sided game and showed dominance in their own region by beating Illawarra South Coast No.2 6-1 in the semi-final.
In the pool games, the Illawarra team showed no mercy in beating Central Coast 19-6, Goulburn 10-0, Grafton 18-0 and finally Southern Highlands 12-1.
It just shows the excellence and physique of the Illawarra team in topping the pool and facing their own second team in the semis.
Illawarra players dominated the NSW team, with seven representatives for next year’s Australian national indoor hockey championships in Wollongong.
The team is led by the three Ogilvie brothers Kurt, Heath and Flynn, and will be joined by the Govers brothers Kieran and Scott, Simon Beaton, Jack Hayes and Alex Montgomery.
Mike Ogilvie is the NSW team manager with John Scott the coach.
The championships take place in Unanderra in January and will also run at the same venue in 2017 and 2018.
Meanwhile, Kookaburras coach Graham Reid will showcase a strong senior squad at the Fintro World League Final in Raipur, India later this month.
Having already qualified for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games at the World League semi-final in Belgium earlier this year, the Australian 18-man-squad will face the world’s best teams for the World League title, automatic qualification for the 2016 Champions Trophy and international ranking points.
Blake and Kieran Govers will play side-by-side in the Kookaburras’ kit for the second time this year.
Eyes will be on 19-year-old Blake after he had a phenomenal first major international tournament at the Olympic qualifier - the World League semi-final - where he was named the tournament’s top scorer and Best Junior Player after netting seven goals.
‘’It’s a pretty experienced squad and unfortunately we don’t get enough opportunities to play the European teams, making it difficult for us to experiment at these types of tournaments due to the amount of good competition,’’ Reid said.
"We selected our World League squad with an eye on the upcoming 2016 Rio Olympic Games.”
