Hockey: Black Sticks play Exchequers today

The national male hockey team, Black Sticks, will engage Exchequers of Bank of Ghana in another friendly match at the Theodosia Okoh Hockey Stadium today.

This will be the second clash between the two sides after their 2-2 deadlock last week.

At the same venue tomorrow, the Black Sticks will play Police, who will seek to avenge a humiliatig 0-8 defeat they suffered at the hands of the national side in a similar exercise last week.

The Blck Sticks’ last friendly match of the week comes of on Saturday and will see the national players with the security services playing against their civilian counterparts.

Last week, the Black Sticks played against Royal Men, Exchequers, Police, Reformers and Extinguishers and scored a total of 25 goals while conceding three.

The head coach of the team, Ebenezer Frimpong, told the Daily Graphic that the friendly matches forms part of their preparations for their upcoming continental competition in South Africa.

Ghana will engage seven other countries, including hosts and defending champions South Africa, Egypt, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria in a week-long competition in the South African town of Stellenbosch for the sole ticket to represent Africa at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Coach Frimpong said in spite of the pedigree of their opponents, he was confident that Ghana would outclass them to pick the sole ticket for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.