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SA women's hockey team takes on China



The Investec South Africa women's hockey team will be looking to the old and the new to lift them to another upset World Cup victory in Rosario, Argentina on Thursday evening.

Captain and midfield general Marsha Marescia, will be playing her 203rd international, hockey legend Pietie Coetzee is getting closer to 200 goals in 200 Test matches and 20-year-old World Cup debutant Sulette Damons, will be looking for another wonder goal as world number 12 South Africa take on the world's third-ranked team at 7.30pm SA time.

The match will be televised live on SuperSport 5. In earlier matches this week, a hurting China were upset 2-1 by world number 11 South Korea and then upstaged 1-0 by world number six England.

South Africa went down 5-2 to world number two Argentina's Las Leonas (lionesses) before shocking world number eight Spain 2-1.



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