Ger­many ham­mered South Africa 10-1 at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, To­ba­go yes­ter­day, col­lect­ing the largest win in the his­to­ry of the women's U-17 fi­nals. Kyra Ma­li­nows­ki scored four goals to bring her over­all tal­ly to sev­en as the Ger­mans have sig­nalled their in­tent with a pair of mon­u­men­tal wins in their first two match­es. With­in 30 min­utes of their sec­ond con­test against South African, they were 5-0 up.

At­tack­ing in waves, and with four play­ers in ad­vanced po­si­tions, Ralf Pe­ter's team took the lead in the 12th minute, the tal­ent­ed left-sided winger Lena Lotzen pro­vid­ing first strike as she had against Mex­i­co. Af­ter cut­ting in­side well and leav­ing her marked for dead, she curled a beau­ti­ful right-foot­ed shot in­to the top cor­ner. The next goal was on­ly sev­en min­utes in com­ing with Kyra Ma­li­nows­ki pick­ing up her fourth goal of the fi­nals when she fin­ished off a nice piece of in­ter­play be­tween Is­abel­la Schmid and Lena Pe­ter­mann. Then, in the 24th and 25th min­utes, Melanie Le­upolz added her name to the score­sheet with a pair of strikes.

Ma­li­nows­ki then bagged her fifth goal from close range in the 29th minute be­fore be­fore Le­upolz and Ma­li­nows­ki struck again to make it 5-0. The South Africans man­aged to pull one back, a near-post head­er by Jer­maine Seo­posen­we re­duc­ing the deficit to 5-1. But the Ger­mans added four more be­fore the in­ter­val through Pe­ter­mann (2) and Ma­li­nows­ki, who sealed her hat-trick. Seo­posen­we then scored again, this time in the wrong goal, with sec­onds to go in the half.

The Eu­ro­peans picked up right where they had left off af­ter the break, Ma­li­nows­ki grab­bing her fourth in the 57th minute with an un­marked head­er at the back post. The Ger­mans are now as­sured of their place in the quar­ter-fi­nals, ow­ing to their mas­sive goal dif­fer­ence. Coach Pe­ter will now have the lux­u­ry of tin­ker­ing with his line-up in the third Group B game against Ko­rea Re­pub­lic on Sun­day.

Hold­ers thwart Chilean chal­lenge

De­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Ko­rea DPR made easy meat of ten-woman Chile at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, run­ning out 3-0 win­ners and con­trol­ling every as­pect of the match. With three points from their first two match­es, the Ko­re­ans will be hop­ing to push through with a pos­i­tive re­sult in their next game, while Chilean hopes of reach­ing the quar­ter-fi­nals took a big hit.