Today was a good day on the courts for Canadians down at the Lakeshore Field House.  Team Canada worked their way past Team USA, the German Rebels, and Great Britain by margins of 1 to 14 points, with the narrowest of victories over the Americans.  Meanwhile, the hastily assembled Can-Am Slam team, featuring Daryl and Stevie, beat the Texas Stampede in a high scoring affair, 41-40.  If the Can-Am team beat the Japanese tomorrow, they'll secure 9th place, which is the best they can do after losing their first two games on Saturday.  It looks like they are getting a better feel for each others styles after having played a bit more together.

While the tournament is far from being over, only a few teams can now win it.  In the top-4, we have New Zealand/USA  &  Canada/Australia.  The winners of those two games will see each other in the Demolition Derby Final, while the losers will play for 3rd/4th place.  The only change from the initial seedings was the swapping of positions between the US and GB teams, as the Americans easily handled the European Champions by a 9-point margin in their crossover game.

Similarly, the winner of the Germany/Frazier TNT game will meet the victor in the Lakeshore/Great Britain game, with the resulting winner taking 5th place at this world-class tournament.

Hopefully I'll hear something from the team soon, and if I do, I'll post their news up here.  G'night!

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As it turns out, this just came in:

"The team played two excellent games today and one okay game.  The game against the U.S. (fancy that this was a morning game) was a squeaker with a number of errors.  After a good tongue lashing by the coach, they game back strong in the next two games.

The U.S. game was a one goal win for us, the Germany game was a 36-22 result, and the GB game was a 7 goal win.  We played the bench extensively in both the GB and Germany games, but found that we used the starters for a good portion of the U.S. game.

In other news, the Daryl-Steven duo (with Marco coaching) took the Texas Stampede by one goal.  They were pretty pleased.

We play Australia at 10:30am tomorrow morning.  If all goes well, we'll be playing NZ in the final again."

~That really IS all~