UCD aiming for three-in-a-row in Chilean Cup

HOCKEY/Intervarsity tournaments: This season's tournament gets under way this morning in Dardistown and Santry with the women of UCaiming for their third successive triumph in the Chilean Cup.

The University of Ulster are, technically, the men's Mauritius Cup holders, although they never got their hands on the trophy when they won it in Cork last year - it has been missing for four years and the organisers would very much like it back.

Trinity's men, who were last year's defending champions before losing in the final to UU, open their campaign today against UCC in Santry while UU start against UCD in Dardistown.

Fresh from their 7-0 thrashing of UCC in the Irish Senior Cup on Sunday, UCD's women look in good shape to retain the Chilean Cup - they play DCU and Trinity today. The University of Limerick, beaten finalists last year, start with games against UCC and UU.

CHILEAN CUP (Women) - Pool A: UCD, DCU, Trinity, NUIG, Queen's. Pool B: Univ of Limerick, UCC, Univ of Ulster, RCSI. Today - Dardistown: Univ of Limerick v UCC, 11.0; Queen's v UCD, 1.0; Univ of Ulster v RCSI, 4.0. Santry: DCU v Trinity, 9.0; Trinity v NUIG, 11.0; Univ of Ulster v Univ of Limerick, 2.0; UCD v DCU, 4.0. Tomorrow - Dardistown: Queen's v Trinity, 9.0; NUIG v Queen's, 11.0; Trinity v UCD, 12.0; Univ of Limerick v RCSI, 1.0; DCU v Queen's, 2.0; UCC v RCSI, 4.0. Santry: NUIG v DCU, 9.0; UCC v Univ of Ulster, 1.0; UCD v NUIG, 3.0.

MAURITIUS CUP (Men) - Pool A: Univ of Ulster, UCD, Queen's, DCU. Pool B: Trinity, NUIG, UCC, RCSI, Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). Today - Dardistown: NUIG v CIT, 9.0; Univ of Ulster v UCD, 10.0; CIT v UCC, 12.0; UCD v Queen's, 2.0; Trinity v RCSI, 3.0; RCSI v CIT, 5.0. Santry: UCC v Trinity, 10.0; Trinity v NUIG, 12.0; Univ of Ulster v DCU, 3.0. Tomorrow - Dardistown: CIT v Trinity, 10.0; UCC v RCSI, 3.0. Santry: RCSI v NUIG, 10.0; UCD v DCU, 11.0; NUIG v UCC, 12.0; DCU v Queen's, 2.0; Queen's v Univ of Ulster, 4.0.