Senior men stay up and finish fifth in Euro Indoor

The senior Scotland men finished an overall fifth in the Euro Indoor Hockey Nations Championships II after a win today and will stay in that league, they will face England in 2015 who were relegated from the top division.

Scotland faced their final match of their European Indoor campaign this morning as they faced Slovakia who needed a win to stay up in the division.

Both teams started strong with Scotland scoring from a penalty corner after five minutes. Willie Marshall passed two players to finish with a strong strike on goal to the top left corner, giving Scotland the lead 1-0.

It was end to end play as they both had their chances but with seconds left in the first half Slovakia caught Scotland off guard and scored in an open goal to make it 1-1 at half time.

Both sides started the second half with caution, with ten minutes in Slovakia had a penalty corner that was poorly finished but a minute later took the lead with a field goal to make it 2-1.

Scotland responded quickly with Michael Ross with a leaping flick to score across goal to draw level at 2-2. At 34 minutes Kenny Bain was yellow carded, as well as a Slovakian with both teams dropping to four players.  Two minutes to go Slovakia took the lead again at 3-2 but Scotland went straight down the other end with Niall Stott striking the ball under the keeper to equalise at 3-3.

In the dying seconds Scotland’s Chris Grassick took a shot at an empty goal, scoring the winner as the final whistle went, the final score 4-3.

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