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Game 68, 21:00, women, SPAIN 6 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 9 |
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Monday, 27 July 2009 21:00 |
Quarter-final 1st-8th
Referees: Alan BALFANBAYEV (KAZ), Mario BRGULJAN (MNE)
Quarters: 3-2, 0-3, 1-2, 2-2
Teams:
SPAIN: Patricia DEL SOTO, Blanca GIL (2), Olga DOMENECH, Irene HAGEN, Miriam LOPEZ-ESCRIBANO (1), Jennifer PAREJA (1), Cristina LOPEZ , Pilar PENA, Clara ALLER, Ona MESEGUER (1), Maica GARCIA (1), Laura LOPEZ, Laura ESTHER. Head Coach: Juan JANE.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Elizabeth ARMSTRONG, Heather PETRI (2), Brittany HAYES (3), Brenda VILLA (1), Lauren WENGER (1), Tanya GANDY, Kelly RULON, Jessica STEFFENS (1), Elsie WINDES, Alison GREGORKA (1), Moriah VAN NORMAN, Kameryn CRAIG, Jaime KOMER. Head Coach: Adam KRIKORIAN.
World and World League champion United States of America withstood a late charge by Spain to win the fourth quarter-final. Spain started strongly with a 3-1 lead after six minutes, thanks to two GIL goals (her 13th and 14th for the tournament). HAYES proved instrumental in the USA’s resurgence after scoring the game’s opening goal, netting either side of the first break to level the game. Triple Olympian PETRI fired in the next two and USA was 5-3 ahead at halftime. Fellow triple Olympic medallist VILLA and 2007 Melbourne World Championship most valuable player WENGER rammed the advantage home in the third to 7-3 before Spain’s PAREJA bounced a penalty attempt into the crossbar. GARCIA muscled in a centre-forward goal to trail 7-4 after three periods. USA’s RULON bounced her penalty attempt left at the start of the fourth period before STEFFENS lobbed goal on the next attack for 8-4. MESEGUER and GARCIA narrowed the margin to 8-6 inside three minutes but GREGORKA made it a three-goal margin at 2:15 and despite a Spanish timeout, no further score eventuated.
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