2014 Oceania Women's Handball Challenge Trophy

The 2014 Women's Oceania Handball Challenge Trophy was held at the ASB Sports Centre in Wellington, New Zealand between December 8 and 13, 2014.

The competition participants were defending champions Australia, host New Zealand, regulars Vanuatu and Cook Islands. New to the championship were America Samoa, New Caledonia, and Samoa.

Hosts New Zealand were the winner upsetting Australia in the final and going through undefeated. Third was New Caledonia over Vanuatu. Fifth was Cook Islands, then Samoa and America Samoa.

Women's results edit

Pool A edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  New Zealand 2 2 0 0 47 12 +35 4
  Vanuatu 2 1 0 1 21 32 −11 2
  American Samoa 2 0 0 2 18 42 −24 0
Source: [citation needed]

8 December 2014 New Zealand   27 – 6   American Samoa ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

9 December 2014 New Zealand   20 – 6   Vanuatu ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

10 December 2014 American Samoa   12 – 15   Vanuatu ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

Pool B edit

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Australia 3 3 0 0 66 39 +27 6
  New Caledonia 3 2 0 1 76 52 +24 4
  Cook Islands 3 1 0 2 55 62 −7 2
  Samoa 3 0 0 3 35 83 −48 0
Source: [citation needed]
8 December 2014 New Caledonia   16 – 21   Australia ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
Samoa   10 – 30   Cook Islands ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

9 December 2014 Australia   23 – 12   Cook Islands ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
New Caledonia   31 – 14   Samoa ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

10 December 2014 Australia   22 – 11   Samoa ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
New Caledonia   29 – 17   Cook Islands ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

5th to 7th place edit

Each team to play each other once. Round robin rounds and additional games to finalize positions.

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
  Cook Islands 2 2 0 0 65 26 +39 4
  Samoa 2 1 0 1 20 30 −10 2
  American Samoa 2 0 0 2 45 16 +29 0
Source: [citation needed]

8 December 2014 Samoa   10 – 30   Cook Islands ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

12 December 2014 Cook Islands   35 – 16   American Samoa ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

13 December 2014 Samoa   10 – 0
(forfeit)
  American Samoa ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

Semi finals edit

12 December 2014 New Caledonia   11 – 13   New Zealand ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
Vanuatu   11 – 28   Australia ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

Third place game edit

13 December 2014 Vanuatu   12 – 30   New Caledonia ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand

Final edit

13 December 2014 New Zealand   11 – 7   Australia ASB Sports Centre, Wellington,
New Zealand
Referees: Robert Ridley, Richard Ridley (AUS)

Rankings edit

Classification
    New Zealand
    Australia
    New Caledonia
4   Vanuatu
5   Cook Islands
6   Samoa
7   American Samoa

References edit