Hockey

Thursday 14th August, 2008

Edinburgh Uni student Alistair McGregor played out of his skin in goal for Hockey Team GB in yesterdays pool match, but in the final minutes is denied his clean sheet losing 1-0 to the Netherlands.

The Dutch dominated the opening exchanges, forcing Scotland goalkeeper Alastair McGregor into two fine saves to twice deny Matthijs Brouwer.

A superb dribbling run from Robert van der Horst saw him beat six defenders before chipping McGregor - only for his shot to riccohet off the post.

Taekema - the world's best set-piece exponent with 150 goals in 176 games - had failed to find the net on two occasions in the second half.

But the 28-year-old made no mistake with his third penalty corner on 63 minutes, drilling the ball past McGregor after Tindall had been sin-binned for tripping Timme Hoyng.

McGregor was in the team which hosts two Edinburgh students and McGregor and Dick both taking a year out to be part of this Olympics will be dissappointed with yesterdays result.