Hockey Gold medal play offs today

Hockey is one of the last sports that will go into its finals today, the last day of the 15th Pacific Games.

And history will be made for the Vanuatu men’s team who play off for Gold for the first time in history of the Hockey Oceania Federation.

This is the first time hockey is played at the Pacific Games, the only international events the code was involved in are the Oceania games and Arafura games.

The men's gold medal play off is between undefeated favourites Fiji and Vanuatu at 2:30 today.

PNG plays Solomon Islands for Bronze at 11:30.

In the women's medal play off, Vanuatu will play Tonga for Bronze from 10 this morning.

The PNG women will go against Fiji who was unbeaten in the competition winning all four of their matches at 1pm.

 

Author: 
Sally Pokiton