In the final games for the two Canadian teams today, the Nordiques easily defeated the #11 seeded Lakeshore Foundation team by a score of 31-18. The Ice continued their domination over the German National Team by a score of 43-32. In other games held today, #4 ranked team in the world Belgium beat the Denver Harlequins 31-24, and the Australian Development team got past the US Development team by a 2-point margin, 36-34.

The Ice played a very good game against the Germans, and set the tone early, taking the lead and never letting up. The Germans came out strong as well, but got overwhelmed by the zamboni power of the Ice. Hey, you have to get a few hockey analogies in. After all, we're Canadian, eh?

In what was a real crowd pleaser, Saskatoon's Mike Bacon caught the 'Hail Mary' catch of the century, catching a rainbow pass while going at full speed with four seconds left to score the final point for the Nordiques in their game against the Foundation. Everybody is playing really well, and the coaching staff is quite pleased with the players.

The results of today's pool games sets the top-2 teams in each pool into new high-performance pools, while the team placing 3rd in each pool is relegated to a group of teams who will play for 9th place. This lower-tier group now consists of Germany, USA Development, Lakeshore Foundation, and the Denver Harlequins. All of these teams were seeded from 9-12, and so far at this tournament, the higher seeded team has won every game.

Those teams still in the running for 1st place were placed into two new pools:

GROUP 1
1st A – Lakeshore Demolition
1st C – APVA Phoenix Heat
2nd B – Texas Stampede
2nd D – Canada Ice

GROUP 2
1st B – Canada Nordiques
1st D – Great Britain
2nd A – Belgium
2nd C – Australia Development

Canada has two concurrent games starting at 9:00am, with the Nordiques taking on the Belgians, and the Ice up against the hottest team in the USA, the Phoenix Heat.

Other Canadian games are scheduled for:

12:00 Canada Ice vs. Lakeshore Demolition
13:30 Canada Nordiques vs. Australia Development
15:00 Canada Ice vs. Texas Stampede
16:30 Canada Nordiques vs. Great Britain

To get up to the minute game results, check out the USQRA results page.

~That is all~