Hockey: Scotland earn deserved draw

GERMANY, with an uninspiring 3-0 win against France, won the women's Four Nations' Tournament in Glasgow yesterday, writes Bill Colwill. Scotland, coming back to draw 1-1 with England, edged into second place. England, despite a 3-1 win over France on Saturday, could only manage third.

Scotland, although limiting themselves to two forwards, caused England's defence plenty of problems. Sue MacDonald and Rhona Simpson looked dangerous and it was against the run of play when a mistake by Scotland's Gill Messenger allowed Tina Cullen to score England's goal in the 27th minute.

Scotland returned to the attack, but were unable to pass Jo Thompson in England's goal and had to wait until 21 minutes into the second half for their well-deserved equaliser from Pauline Robertson.

ENGLAND: J Thompson (Ipswich); L Bayliss (Sutton Coldfield), J Atkins (Bradford), C Cook (Hightown), M Davies (Sutton Coldfield), K Johnson (Leicester), T Miller (Clifton), S Gibson (Trojans), S Lister (Ipswich, capt), M Nicholls (Ealing), T Cullen (Hightown). Substitutes used: J Smith (Chelmsford), L Youngs (Ipswich).

SCOTLAND: T Robb; M Barbour, M Coutts (capt) (all Glasgow Western), G Messenger (Edinburgh), S Fraser (Glasgow Western), P Robertson (Edinburgh), W Fraser, A Ramsay, A Menzies (all Glasgow Western), R Simpson (Heriot Watt), S MacDonald (Glasgow Western). Substitutes used: C Howard, D Renilson, J Jack (all Edinburgh), E Murray (Glasgow Western).

Umpires: S Mouche (Fr) and J Liggins (Wal).