Hockey: Australian player dies on field

SYDNEY: A field hockey player died after being hit on the head by a ball in a weekend club match in Australia. Elizabeth Watkins, 24, was fatally injured while playing for her North Coast Raiders club in a Western Australian State League game in Perth. Watkins collapsed unconscious when the ball deflected off a stick and hit her on the head. Watkins died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after attempts were made to revive her at the ground.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 8^th, 2012.