Hockey: Ireland 3 - Italy 3

Ireland played in their final match of the Europeans today knowing a win would secure gold but a draw or one goal loss would still secure promotion back up to the A division.

Ireland completed the task with a 3-3 draw against the Italians who nipped the gold with two very late goals in the last 4 minutes of play pulling back from Ireland's 3-1 lead.

Commenting after the game Coach Passmore said "It was a bitter sweet feeling today. Promotion was the goal and to play like we did for the first 45 minutes and go three up that was achieved but it's tough to take that we threw away a gold medal through simple errors in the final period. The tournament schedule favoured Italy who had not played any back to back games where as we were asked to do that twice for the last two days in 35 degrees heat."

Starting XI: Emma Russell; Chloe Brown; Amy Cooke; Emily Beatty; Roisin Upton; Kerri McDonald; Erika Hinkson; Leah Ewart; Hayley Mulcahy; Ayeisha McFerran
Reserves: Rachel Barnett; Sara Twomey; Kate Lloyd; Elaine Carey; Kathryn Mullan;Hannah Grieve; Lucy McKee.