TEAM CANADA UNDEFEATED AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Canada met a strong Swedish team on the court in Gothenburg before a home crowd that was keen to see their team make it to the medal round.  Unfortunately for the crowd, our Canadians came out on top.  The game was extremely close and echoed the game played in the next gymnasium between Australia and the undefeated underdogs from Belgium.  At the end, Australia came through with a three goal victory, 46-43.

At the end of the third quarter in our game against Sweden, were were up by one, and had possession of the ball and scored.  Two up, we then stalled for most of the fourth quarter, scoring finally with 6 seconds remaining, taking the game to a final score of 34-31.

The WC site now has some info on this game (from a Swedish perspective) available in English:

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"Sweden lost their chances of playing in the semi-final. Seriously disappointed even if they made a great performance.

No mistakes were permitted when Sweden played Canada.  The starting line-up of Eriksson (3.0), Kulle (2.0), Nilsson (2.0) and Josefsson (1.0) all did an extremely good job and showed every inch of the professionalism in the game they’ve made themselves known for.  The foursome continued their steady play, unfortunately the new line-up, holding Rissmar (3.0) and Mattsson (2.0) weren’t given a chance by the Canadians to get in to the game.  By the end of the third period and for the rest of the game the Swedish team had difficulty controlling the ball.  The Canadian team forced the momentum back and gained another couple of goals and finally ended the fourth period in favour, 33-30.

This was probably Sweden’s best game and we’re looking forward to see them play Switzerland tomorrow."

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In other games today, in a game of teams ranked at the opposite end of the spectrum, the Americans doubled the Austrians 38-19.  Meanwhile, New Zealand earned their first win in a 42-28 drubbing of Germany.  Currently, two games are being played: SWI—JAP and GBR—NED. Canada plays the Austrians tonight at 19:00 local time, while Australia meets Germany on the other court.