Kookas Hit 10
Illawarra Mercury
Thursday August 7, 2003
* HOCKEY
THE Kookaburras have thrashed Greece 10-0 as they test conditions in Athens ahead of next year's Olympic Games.
Australia's men's hockey side is tuning up for the Champions Trophy in Amsterdam later this month but has also taken the chance to check out Athens where the campaign for that elusive Olympic gold medal will resume in 2004.
A hat-trick from Queensland midfielder Troy Elder was one of the highlights of the friendly match against Greece.
South Australian striker Grant Schubert, who made his senior debut in the green and gold, scored two goals.
Jamie Dwyer also bagged two while Craig Victory, Brent Livermore and Adam Commens scored one each.
* GOLF
Fraser gets card
VICTORIAN Marcus Fraser has earned his European Tour card with one perfect shot.
Fraser floated a wedge 90m onto the green and into the hole to win a play-off for the Talma Finnish Challenge over the weekend.
The victory was his second on the European Challenge Tour after his win in the Nykredit Danish Open and has boosted him to fourth spot on the rankings.
Fraser's eagle at the par five 18th came at the third extra play-off hole and gave him the title over Sweden's Tony Edlund.
* FORMULA ONE
Briscoe misses
AUSTRALIAN Ryan Briscoe's hopes of stepping up to Formula One are on hold after Toyota named an unchanged team for 2004.
The Sydney driver will have to wait at least another year with Olivier Panis and Cristiano Da Matta retained for a second season.
Briscoe, 21, is a runaway leader in the glamorous new European F3 Championship which is highlighted by the F3 Masters at Zandvoort in the Netherlands on Sunday.
Panis and Da Matta finished fifth and sixth in last weekend's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim - the first time Toyota had had both its cars score points in an F1 race.
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