Senior Men Euro Hockey League Grand Final
SCOTS-BORN Kenny Bain’s dreams of winning Europe’s top club field hockey competition have ended in disappointment.
The 26-year-old, ex-Kelburne star was in the Amsterdam team which was beaten 2-0 by SV Kampong in the first all Dutch final in the EuroHockey League.
Scottish-international Bain and a half-chance minutes from time in Barcelona but was unable to take advantage.
And Bjorn Kellerman stabbed the ball home from close range with a minute to go to clinch the title.
Earlier, Kampong captain Quirijn Caspers had put them ahead after 35 minutes.
Kampong’s Irish-born goalkeeper David Harte pulled off several telling saves in the tense contest in the Barcelona heat.
And the reverse was a massive blow to Amsterdam who knocked Kampong out of the national league play-off semi-final.
Glasgow-born Bain and his Amsterdam colleagues won their domestic league but lost in the domestic play-off final to Oranje Zwart and have now missed out on the biggest prize in European club hockey.
Back home, Bain’s Scottish international team-mate, David Forsyth was celebrated clinching promotion to the top Dutch league, the Hoofdeklasse.
His club Qui Vive came from 2-0 down against Almere in the second-leg of their play-of on Saturday to level and then win the Overgangsklasse on a Golden Goal after also winning the first-leg 2-1 on a Golden Goal
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