Dark Sticks down Hockeyroos to guarantee gold

Dark Sticks down Hockeyroos to guarantee gold 

New Zealand have guaranteed their first Commonwealth Games gold decoration in the hockey with clinical 4-1 prevail upon trans-Tasman rivals Australia.

The Hockeyroos entered the last without having their net ruptured in five matches paving the way to the last, yet a 14-minute spell where they yielded three objectives committed them to silver.

Shiloh Gloyn's slap got the Kiwis in front just before halftime, before Rose Keddell and Olivia Merry set up a summoning 3-0 lead with a quarter to go on Saturday.

Viewed on by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Australia got one back through Jodie Kenny's dashing punishment corner in the 50th moment before an Anita McLaren punishment flick four minutes from fulltime finished any musings of a rebound.

The Kiwis' 20-year sit tight for hockey gold likewise finished.

New Zealand had just made the Commonwealth last once in the ladies' draw, losing tortuously to Australia on punishment strokes in Delhi in 2010.

Anyway there would be no such disaster on the Gold Coast, where they exploited a Hockeyroos side that seemed exhausted from the start.

Australian goalkeeper Rachael Lynch was approached early and frequently for the home side.

When she wasn't batting ceaselessly punishment corners, she was jumping on free balls or clearing behind a beaten protection, including a urgent plunge to deny Gloyn in the opening time frame.

Be that as it may, she was at long last broken by a 28th-minute rocket from Gloyn, who got herself alone at the highest point of the shooting circle and let go low and directly past an outstretched Lynch.

Australia had a couples of odds of their own, with Savannah Fitzpatrick going close on two events, however were generally constrained for circumstances like they have for the vast majority of the battle.

New Zealand got where they exited off after the break, and multiplied their favorable position on Keddell's bounce back objective in the 34th moment in spite of dissents from the home side.

In any case, a Merry punishment corner three minutes from three-quarter time everything except fixed Australia's destiny, with Kenny and McLaren at that point exchanging punishment objectives in the last time frame.