Three games are scheduled for Saturday, or “Friday” as we call it over here in North America.  The draw has us up first against a strong Canterbury team, led by 3.0 Dan Buckingham.  That 10:30 game is followed by a game at 15:00 match against the Auckland blokes that features 2.5 Curtis Palmer, and the Waikato trio of 2.5s at 17:45 after a quick dinner at 17:00.

The photo to the left (in the very dark gym) shows the beginning of a breakaway goal by 'The Dude', our 1.5, #15, Mr. Patrice Simard of Quebec City.

Suiting up first against the Red and White Avalanche team is the experienced Canterbury team:

0.5 Tolu Tuilagi
0.5 Brad Hayward
0.5 Steve Guthrie
0.5 Sam Bennett
1.0 Bill Oughton (thanks for the upcoming t-shirt, Bill!)
1.0 Andy Chittock
1.5 Steve Hannen
2.0 Gerry Tinker
2.0 Tim Johnson
2.0 Riki Foulsham
3.0 Dan Buckingham
Staff - Nick Johnson
Staff - Debbie Mitchell

The 3pm match against Team Auckland has our guys up against:

0.5 Steve Nimmo
1.0 Jai Waite
1.0 Grant Sharman
2.0 Gary McMurray
2.0 Kevin Kernoske
2.5 Curtis Palmer

The photo to the right is from the Canada Avalanche vs Manawatu game, and shows a give and go between a couple of Avalanche 3.0's, Fabien Lavoie from Quebec City and Steven Dunn from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.  Sholto Taylor from Manawatu, and the Kiwi National Team is the tall guy to the left of Fabien.

Our final opponents on Saturday are from Waikato.  Their team consists of:

0.5 George Nepata
1.0 Ross Ormsby
1.5 David Klinkhammer
2.0 Chris Harvey
2.5 Will Groulx (from Portland, OR, USA) (article on him from the USQRA web site)
2.5 Dougal Scott
2.5 Peter Martin

I'll post the game summaries when I receive them.

~That is all~