Broad title Kookaburras forward Jeremy Hayward has scored a hat-trick to wait on acquire the Australian males’s hockey crew to a 5-0 employ over Malaysia in Perth.
Hayward showed his penalty corner prowess on Tuesday evening with three trademark accelerate flick wishes. Jake Harvie and Jake Whetton furthermore made the scoresheet.
The final result gave the Kookaburras a 3-0 lead in the four-match sequence.
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The Tokyo Olympic silver medallists gained sport one 3-0 forward of producing a 7-0 romp in sport two.
The Kookaburras were dealt a blow in the lead-as a lot as sport three when Blake Govers, who at this time sits on 99 international wishes, was ruled out after being deemed a shut COVID-19 contact.
He’ll furthermore roam away out the closing match on Thursday.
Nonetheless his absence was barely felt because the Kookaburras launched into any other goalfest.
Hayward started issues standard in the 11th minute when he capitalised on the Kookaburras’ first penalty corner.
The lead was mercurial doubled when persistence from Tom Wickham created an opening for Harvie to ranking unmarked on the back post.
Malaysia goalkeeper Adrian Albert reeled off some gorgeous saves to employ the guests in the competition.
Hayward’s 2d and third wishes again came courtesy of successfully performed penalty corners in the train of a five-minute period of the third quarter to successfully attach the game out of Malaysia’s attain.
As fatigue began to position in gradual in the competition, Whetton then despatched an unstoppable shot into the tip corner as he gathered a elephantine head of steam after a sublime Kookaburras roam that started on the reverse halt of the pitch.
“Malaysia have some ultimate penalty corner defence. We had 18 penalty corners on Sunday so we had a review at how lets reinforce that tonight and to ranking three feels slightly ultimate,” Hayward acknowledged after the match.
“Taking half in three games in a row in opposition to the connected crew is constantly attention-grabbing. We’re searching for to enhance each time and work on our possess sport and how we can better it.
“Malaysia have indubitably improved over the three games and they also challenged us as of late in assorted ways, so we’ll ought to make certain that that we proceed to construct growth again on Thursday.”