GUYANA’S Junior women’s hockey team had another tough outing at the Junior Pan American games as they went down to Mexico 9-1 yesterday.
The locals were outplayed with only 34 per cent of the possession, Mexico were unrelenting and it showed in the score sheet as they were 2-0 up at the end of the first quarter before making it 3-1 at the half.
Guyana had no answers as Mexico turned up the heat in the second half with Valeria Espinoza hitting the back of the net four times as they took a comfortable 9-1 victory.
The other goal scorers for Mexico were Brenda Moreno, Ximena De Los Rios, Fernanda Guzman, Christina Ortiz and Nancy Castillo.
The country’s lone goal came off the stick of Makaylah Poole.
Guyana’s women will hit the turf again on Friday against USA, they loss their opener this week to Chile 12-0 with their captain Sarah Klautky scoring the lone goal.