The New Zealand Youth Olympic Men's hockey team has had an 8-2 win over Zambia in their first game of the Hockey5's in Nanjing overnight.
The Kiwis were 3-1 up after the first spell with Hayden Phillips scoring two goals and Robbie Capizzi also finding the back of the net.
In the second third, David Brydon and Aidan Sarikaya took the score to 5-2, and in the final third New Zealand finished it off with Dominic Newman getting a double and Phillips scoring once more to get a hat-trick.
The new Hockey5 format has been introduced by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and is being played at the Youth Olympics (16-28 August 2014).
There are nine in a team with only five players on the field, there are side boards around a reduced field size, no penalty corners, and the game is split into three periods of 15 minutes with an interval of two minutes between each period.
The NZ Men will face Mexico next at 1am on Tuesday, then Germany at 8.30pm on Wednesday and Pakistan at 11pm on Thursday. (NZT).
