Home sides lose out narrowly in warm-up matches in Glasgow

With the Men’s 4 Nations and FIH Champions Challenge looming this weekend, Scotland Senior Men and Women were in action in warm-up friendlies against Argentina and Ireland at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre this evening.

Scotland Senior Men lost out 3-2 to Argentina despite striker Kenny Bain putting the home side 2-0 up inside the first seven minutes.

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(Scotland’s Kenny Bain was on target with two goals against Argentina. Photo Credit: Duncan Gray)

The Hurley marksman opened the scoring in the third minute with a cracking reverse stick strike into the bottom left hand corner, and he doubled the advantage for the national side four minute later when David and Alan Forsyth combined down the right flank to play in Bain inside the circle, where he finished with a low flick past the Argentinian goalkeeper.

However, a Matias Paredes penalty corner in the 20th minute, plus two goals from Guillermo Schickendantz in the 28th and 41st minutes gave the away side a narrow 3-2 success.

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(Chris Grassick sets Scotland off on the attack. Photo Credit: Duncan Gray)

Scotland Senior Men now look forward to the opening match of the Men’s 4 Nations competition on Friday evening, when they play Belgium at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre (7pm)

Meanwhile, Nikki Kidd’s penalty corner strike couldn’t prevent Scotland Senior Women going down to a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Ireland earlier this evening.

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(Nikki Kidd was Scotland’s goalscorer against Ireland in Glasgow. Photo Credit: Duncan Gray)

Nicola Evans gave the visitors the lead in the 11th minute courtesy of a penalty corner strike, before Kidd pulled the Scots level eight minutes later with a trademark drag-flick down the centre of the goal.

In the 43th minute, Ireland notched the winning goal, Michelle Harvey scoring from a penalty corner.

Scotland Senior Women also face Belgium in their next match, this time on Sunday afternoon when they play in the opening Pool A match in the FIH Champions Challenge (2.30pm).

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(Scotland’s Morag McLellan in action against Ireland this evening. Photo Credit: Duncan Gray).

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