The final results are now in, and Canadian national team co-captain Dave Willsie and his Sarasota team, the Hoveround Lightning, have held their #1 seed throughout the tournament, and are eager to to prove to the league that they are stronger than their #5 current ranking in the USQRA.  Our own Mike "Shake 'n Quake" Whitehead of the Maine team was named tournament MVP.  Congrats guys!

The rejuvanated Casco Bay Navigators, who have been trying hard all season to prove themselves on the national scene, improved on their pool game against the Lightning, but still were unable to come closer than a dozen points to the powerful host team.  The final score was 40-28 for the Lightning.

The final results of the tournament are:

1st - Hoveround Lightning (1) (#1 – #2 qualify for Division 1 USQRA Nationals)
2nd - Casco Bay Navigators (4)

International players dominated the All Tournament Team, which looks like this:

2003 Atlantic Sectional Playoffs — All Tournament Team

0.5 – Charles Ray, South Florida Rattlers & Joel Post, Hoveround Lightning
1.0 – George Taborsky, EPVA New York Jets & Chad Foster, CIR Carolina Crash
1.5 – Patrice Simard, South Florida Rattlers
2.0 – Dave Willsie, Hoveround Lightning
2.5 – Peter Martin, Carolina Crash
3.0 – Fabian Lavoie, Magee Rolling Rebels
3.5 – Scott Burrows, Tampa Generals
MVP – Mike Whitehead, Casco Bay Navigators
Sportsmanship – John Szintai, Casco Bay Navigators

Dave Willsie, his wife Dodie McCoy, and CWSA Executive Director Cathy Cadieux will be representing the World Champion Canadian Wheelchair Rugby Team in another two weeks at the 30th Annual Canadian Sport Awards, where our team is a finalist for the Canadian Male Team of the Year.  This time, we'll have to beat Wayne Gretzky's Canadian Olympic Men's Hockey Team, which won gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics for the first time in 50 years in Canada's official winter national sport.  *gulp* !