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| Match action from PR Korea 0 v Team GB 7 Photo by www.cveto.si |
Despite
having the best playing record in the competition and actually being the only
team to beat eventual winners Poland, the GB women had to settle for third
place behind Poland and Korea due to the rules that separate teams that finish
on the same number of points.
They beat
Croatia 19-1 in their opening game of the 6 team round robin group and then
lost 0-1 to Korea for their only reverse of the tournament. Two shut outs – 6-0
against Slovenia and 7-0 against North Korea contributed to Nicole Jackson (Bradford Bulldogs) being named as netminder of the tournament and the 2-1 win over Poland gave the GB women bragging
rights over the group winners, if not the sole promotion place.
Leanne Ganney
(Bracknell) and Katie Henry (Solihull) were GB’s top scorers with 10 points
each, finishing 4th and 5th in the scoring table behind 3 Polish players. Henry
had Team GB’s most shots on goal of the tournament with 27 in 5 games.
Poland win promotion
to Division 1 Group B for next year’s World Championships and bottom team Croatia
are relegated to Division 2 Group B
The GB women’s
team will be hoping that they can go step further next year when they compete
again in Division 2 Group A which will be held in Korea.
