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Game 63, 12:40, women, ITALY 9 CHINA 5 |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 12:40 |
Semifinals 9th-12th
Referees: Gaetan TURCOTTE (CAN), Steven ROTSART (USA).
Quarters: 1-2, 4-1, 0-0, 4-2
Extra man: ITA 3/5; CHN 2/12
Teams:
ITALY: Elena GIGLI, Simona ABBATE, Elisa CASANOVA, Silvia BOSURGI, Daniela LAVORINI, Arianna GARIBOTTI, Tania DI MARIO Roberta BIANCONI, Giulia EMMOLO, Federica ROCCO, Annalisa BOSELLO, Teresa FRASSINETTI, Eleonora GAY. Head Coach: Roberto FIORI.
CHINA: YANG Jun, TENG Fei, LIU Ping, SUN Yujun, HE Jin, SUN Yating, ZHANG Lei, GAO Ao, WANG Yi, MA Huanhuan, SUN Hui Zi, QIAO Lei Ying, WANG Ying. Head Coach: PAN Shenghua.
Italy came through in the last quarter to make sure of its strong showing heading into the play-off for ninth against Germany. China was 3-2 ahead until two minutes before halftime. Then Italian captain DI MARIO struck twice to take Italy through to what was an unassailable lead. She opened the fourth-quarter scoring and finished with four goals. China scored through MA and SUN Yating and then missed a chance when GIGLI smacked down a power shot. It proved to be the final nail in the coffin for China as BOSURGI scored on the counter with CASANOVA lobbing the final goal from centre forward. The extra-man statistics for China proved telling and the team has not performed to expectations. 
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