Hockey
The heat will be on Marquis Dalefield when they confront Harbour City in a Wellington premier division men's hockey match at Clareville tomorrow.
Their management team is sure to have had plenty to say after the disappointment of their crushing 6-1 loss to Victoria University last weekend and a much more committed performance will be anticipated on this occasion.
The biggest frustration of the loss to University was the slow start which saw Dalefield trailing 3-0 before the halfway point of the first half had been reached and against a team of University's calibre there was little chance of Dalefield coming even close to making up the lost ground.
There was a glimmer of light in the Dalefield effort and that was the concession of just the one goal during a second half where they posed problems themselves for the University defence. Their only goal was an absolute beauty from Alex Sumenko-Bucknell, who fired in a reverse stick shot from the top of the circle and it was only the brilliance of Black Sticks keeper Kyle Pontifax who denied them on other occasions.