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Canadian field hockey team earns 1-1 draw

 
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Mississauga’s Ranjeev Deol races for the loose ball during field hockey action against Great Britain. The teams fought to a 1-1 draw.
                 
 

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By: Amit Gossai
 
August 17, 2008 12:00 PM - Canada’s men’s field hockey team, which features three Mississaugans, earned its first point of the Beijing Summer Olympics this morning after a 1-1 draw versus Great Britain at the Olympic Green Hockey Stadium.
The Canadians, who entered the Olympics ranked 15th in the world, went up 1-0 after a goal by Unionville’s Ken Pereira at the 47-minute mark.
However, the lead didn’t hold up.
Eighth-ranked Great Britain knotted the game at 1-1, 20 minutes later, and neither team found the score sheet after that.
Canada improved its record to (0-3-1), however, with one game remaining in the round-robin, the Canadian squad is mathematically eliminated from the medal stage.
Wayne Fernandes, Scott Sandison and Ranjeev Deol, who has one goal at the Games, are Mississauga’s representatives on the team.
The Canadians will be looking for their first win on Tuesday when they take on the world’s 13th-ranked South Africans.
Also, Mississauga’s Chris Pellini will compete in the K-4 (four-man kayak) 1,000-metres event Monday morning at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.
Pellini, who is a member of the Burloak Canoe Club, was a silver medalist at the 2007 Pan Am Games.


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