This weekend, we have two teams with significant Can-Con at the 8th Annual Capital City Clash in Montgomery, Alabama.

At this tournament, which has star-studded lineups on every team, the latest edition of the Canada Ice are suited up against many of their Canadian teammates on the South Florida Rattlers team, and a full-rostered Hoveround Lightning team, which features both Canadian National Team deuce Dave Willsie and Canadian National team coach, 3.5 Joe Soares.  In addittion to these three teams are other top-tier squads who will very likely be in the USQRA Division I finals this year.  These include the Lakeshore Demolition, Phoenix Heat, the Frazier TNT, and the US Paralympic traning team, (use your best New Jersey or Tony-Soprano-crew accent) "The Who-ers".

The South Florida team is coached by our High Performance Coordinator, Marco Dispaltro, who runs our Florida Project which has a large number of Canadians of all levels training full-time in the Fort Lauderdale area.  The Canada Ice team, which is so far undefeated over the first two days of the tournament, is coached by Canadian Assistant National Coach, Benoit Labrecque, of Quebec City.

Speaking of Marco, he was able to post many of the results of the first few days up on the USQRA Open Forum.

Results are incomplete, but so far, here is a look at the Win / Loss column in comparison to the original seedings:

5-0 Canada Ice (seeded 3rd)
2-2 Hoveround Lightning (seeded 1st)
2-2 Lakeshore Demolition (seeded 5th)
2-3 Phoenix Heat (seeded 2nd)
2-3 South Florida Rattlers (seeded DFL)
1-2 Frazier TNT (seeded 4th)
1-3 USA (The Who-Ers) (seeded 6th)

There are current or former national team members on every team, and every single one of these teams have future Athens Paralympians on them.

I hope to hear from him soon with the rest of the results, and possibly the rosters from the other teams.

So far, I know a few of the rosters, and a few incomplete rosters.  The rest will be posted when I find out:

CANADA ICE:
3.0 Ian CHAN
3.0 Fabien LAVOIE
3.0 Mike WHITEHEAD
2.0 Raymond LIZOTTE
1.5 Dave HARRISON
1.5 Patrice SIMARD
1.0 Gordie PUBLICOVER (from Halifax, NS)
0.5 Charlie BROWN
0.5 Daniel PARADIS

SOUTH FLORIDA RATTLERS:
3.5 Garett HICKLING
3.0 Steven DUNN
2.0 Allan CHARTRAND
2.0 Susan McRAE
1.5 Erika SCHMUTZ (from Toronto, ON)
1.0 José DEBENITO
1.0 Pat ROGERS
0.5 Charles RAY

HOVEROUND LIGHTNING:
3.5 Joe SOARES
2.0 David WILLSIE
...

LAKESHORE DEMOLITION:
2.5 - Willard BROOKS
2.0 - Bryan KIRKLAND
...

PHOENIX HEAT:
3.5 - Brad DUBBERLEY
2.0 - Andy COHN
1.5 - Lance SEDBROOK
1.0 - Scott HOGSETT

USA - The "Who-Ers":
2.5 - Will GROULX
1.5 - Norm LYDUCH
...

FRAZIER TNT:
2.0 - Cliff CHUNN
0.5 - Eddie CROUCH
...