{"id":411757,"date":"2026-05-04T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411757\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:59:09","slug":"black-sticks-women-lose-final-game-finish-fourth-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411757\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sticks women lose final game, finish fourth in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Black<\/p>\n

\nBlack Sticks Women prepare for a penalty.
\nPhoto: Blake Armstrong\n<\/p>\n

The Black Sticks women have finished fourth out of five teams at the Changzhou Invitational Tournament following a 1-0 loss to China A in the bronze medal match.<\/p>\n

New Zealand end the tournament with two wins and four defeats, including a 7-0 defeat to Argentina in their penultimate game.<\/p>\n

Both China A and the Black Sticks were keen to end their campaigns on a high and the first half was an even contest, with both sides creating opportunities.<\/p>\n

Despite both teams pushing hard, the match remained locked at 0-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Both teams continued to create chances in the third quarter, but China A found the breakthrough with a field goal.<\/p>\n

The Black Sticks thought they had equalised through a penalty corner variation, only for the goal to be overturned following a review for dangerous play.<\/p>\n

New Zealand tried desperately to find an equaliser, but China A held firm to seal the one goal victory.<\/p>\n

A fourth place finish isn’t what the Black Sticks would have hoped for as they build towards the Nations Cup at home in June.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Black Sticks Women prepare for a penalty. Photo: Blake Armstrong The Black Sticks women have finished fourth out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-411757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}