Edwina Bone is bound for another Olympic Games campaign next year after her Hockeyroos side won their ticket to the Tokyo games via a resounding 5-0 thumping of Russia on Saturday night.
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Parkes star Mariah Williams scored twice in the rout as the green and gold girls completed a 9-2 aggregate victory over the Russians to ensure they'll join the Kookaburras as genuine medal contenders at Japan next year.
It's the 11th straight Olympic Games campaign for the Australian women, a feat locked up pretty early, too, after the Hockeyroos stormed out the blocks.
Williams bagged a brace while Grace Stewart, Sophie Taylor and Emily Chalker also got on the score sheet.
"I feel really happy for the girls," Head coach Paul Gaudoin said in the statement, after the win at the Curtin University's Perth Hockey Stadium. "They worked really hard and it has been a massive year.
"We didn't quite get there (against New Zealand) in Rockhampton but now we can focus our preparations on Tokyo.
It was pleasing that we managed to finish off with some quality goals in the first half.
- Head coach Paul Gaudoin.
"It was pleasing that we managed to finish off with some quality goals in the first half but our ball handling needs to get better as well as our fitness."
Stewart hit home the first goal of the game on nine minutes, her work on the back of a deflected Renee Taylor drag flick, to kick the hosts out to an early lead.
Williams' scintilating work up front was denied early by Russian keeper Viktoriia Aleksandrina but the Parkes gun wouldn't be denied a second time, the 24-year-old firing one home in 22nd minute before, just three minutes later, Taylor made it 3-0 with a penalty corner conversion.
Taylor took a touch to put herself inside the circle and struck a shot low and hard into the bottom right corner.
An unmarked Chalker made it 4-0 to start the second quarter and there was even time for a fifth before the main interval, an attack down the right ending with Williams whose speculative shot alluded Russian defenders and the oncoming Commerford to sneak over the line.
With Olympic qualification achieved, the Hockeyroos players will now return to play with their respective Sultana Bran Hockey One teams for the league's final round next weekend.
Bone made her Olympic debut at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2016 where the Hockeyroos suffered a disappointing 4-2 quarter-final loss to New Zealand.
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