REDLANDS hockey players have made history, competing in the women's Queensland State Open Hockey Championships for the first time.
It was a tough competition though, with the women hammered in their three games.
The three-day tournament at the State Hockey Centre at Colmslie on Brisbane’s eastside featured some of Queensland's top players representing Redlands, Toowoomba, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Tweed Border, Ipswich, Townsville, Brisbane and Cairns.
Redlands Hockey Association players were soundly beaten in their four games, losing to Toowoomba (0-11), Tweed Border (0-11), Cairns (0-11) and Brisbane (0-13).
An association spokeswoman said that regardless of the result, fielding a team in the championships was a major milestone for the association, which was set up in 2007.
The Redlands team featured the mother-daughter combination of Petra and Lucy West, and 17-year-old German exhange student Charlotte Schenkluhn, who has only been in Australia for only one month.
