When Daylin Suárez's cane embedded the ball into the Sancti Spiritus goal, in the 49th minute, she was not only giving the Avila team a 2-1 victory, but she was going down in history as the author of the winning goal in the first title of the National Women's Hockey Championship played on the brand new synthetic hockey field in Ciego de Ávila.
As it happened in the qualifying ―the game ended with the same score―, the leveling of quality was evident in the actions of the game, since the now silver medalists did not let up during the 60 minutes of actions.
It is fair to state that this time Yayabo's men did not exercise the same dominance in the midfield, something that the locals took advantage of to organize almost all the offensive incursions from the center that put the rival defense in trouble.
It was thus that the first quarter ended without annotations, but in minute 25 Yurima Soria put the home team ahead, to the delight of the dozens of fans, although the merriment was interrupted a minute later by the tying target, through Meyli Coss. Therefore, they went to rest.
In the third quarter, there were back and forth actions, in some of them it seemed the goal of the advantage was going to arrive, but they were not hurt.
We had to wait, then, for the last quarter, when Daylin's goal cry echoed around the new facility.
However, there were still 11 minutes left to play and the women from Sancti went on the attack, something like "kill or be killed"; just a kickback from Avila forced them to commit a dangerous foul and the referee decreed a penalty stroke.
In this discipline, it is said that the collection of this foul is almost a goal, but the attacker Marianela López, against all odds, missed it. It could be the both of the tranquility. Luckily, three minutes later, the whistle came and the end of the game.
The bronze medals were this time for Camagüey, while Las Tunas, former monarch, had to settle for the fourth seat. The fifth and sixth places corresponded to Santiago de Cuba and Villa Clara, respectively.
Yadira Galván from Santiago was selected as the most outstanding player of the tournament and Yurismailis García from Ciego de Ávila as goalkeeper; the scoring leader was Yunia Milanés from Camagüey.
After a week off on the synthetic court from Ciego de Ávila, the actions of this sport will continue with the start, on the 20th, of the Men's National Championship.