Scotland Senior Men go unbeaten in Tri Nations

Scotland men went unbeaten in this weekend’s Tri Nations indoor tournament in Brussels. Beating Belgium and England and drawing twice, it was a confident performance from the Scottish side.

First match saw Scotland take on England where the Scots went one nil down in the first few minutes but quickly fought back to go ahead, 2-1. The goal scorers were Alan Forsyth and William Marshall. England came back just before halftime to equal it 2-2. With 25 minutes gone England went ahead 3-2 but Scotland came back with another goal from Marshall.

Scotland equalised in the last minute to make it 4-4, but in the dying minutes of overtime England secured a penalty corner but goal keeper David Forrester made a brilliant save to deny the English from a win.

Second game of the day saw the Scots go up against the home nation Belgium. Scotland were 1-0 up at half time with a goal from Marshall. The home side came out determined for an equaliser which they found straight away. However the Scots showed great control in this game with Chris Grassick finding the back of the net twice putting them ahead 3-1. Scotland conceded a scrappy goal to make it 3-2 but came away with their first win of the tournament.

On Sunday Scotland beat England 5-1 in the first game of the day, with an outstanding performance by Alan Dick in goal saving 6 out of 7 of England’s penalty corners. It was a close first half ending 0-0 at half time, but the Scots soon got the first goal on the score sheet, with Nial Stott converting a penalty corner making it 1-0. As soon as the first goal was scored the rest flooded in with the second coming from Iain Scholefield, followed by a third from Kenny Bain. With 3 minutes to go the Scots conceded a goal through a penalty corner making it 3-1. In the last few minutes Kenny Bain secured his hat-rick scoring twice on the break.

Scotland were unlucky in their final match drawing 4-4 with Belgium with a serious injury to Alan Forsyth in the last seconds of the game.

Scotland started strong and quickly went up 2-0, the two goals came from Chris Grassick and Iain Scholefield. Yet the home side came back and took the lead 3-2 just after half time. Nial Stott made it level with a field goal, but in the last minutes Belgium went ahead once again to make it 4-3.

With less than a minute to go Scotland put on a kicking back and a tackle was made leaving Alan Forsyth taking a knee to the face resulting in a trip to the hospital and stiches above the eye. He is out of hospital now and is on the mend. Once they had cleared up the mess from the nasty tackle Michael Ross came out and scored the equaliser in the last seconds of the match making it 4-4, leaving Scotland unbeaten throughout the tournament.

Head coach Derek Forsyth couldn’t be more pleased with how his team stepped up; ‘It was a good weekend, they played better today then yesterday, as they were a little rusty to start off with but quickly shook it off. A lot of positives from this weekend going into the FIH EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship II. The only down side was Alan’s injury on what was otherwise a good performance.’

The Scotland men’s side go to Bern, Switzerland for FIH EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship II starting on the 17th of January.

 

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