On Day 1 of the World Championships, the seeds held, with the top three teams in Pool A and Pool B, showcasing their talent.

In the closest game, the Japanese came on strong and closed the first half to within three points of the Americans, who eventually took the game by 10 points.

In another game which was close early in the game, the Kiwis led by the narrow margin of 9-8 at the end of the first quarter against the Swiss, but a blistering second quarter that stretched the lead to 18-12 quickly made the game safe.  The final score was 41-29 for the top-ranked New Zealand team.

The Canadian national team players are doing really well.  They played solidly in their first game today against The Netherlands, which was to be expected.  They were a little tight to start but then settled down very quickly.  If there were a game ball, it would have gone to Travis. He played great today!  And young T-Bone Hirschfield made a fantastic play at game's end.  With four seconds on the clock, we had G in the key ready to take a long pass from Mike Whitehead.  They tied up G and so Trevor positioned himself perfectly, caught the pass from Mike and went in to score the goal.

The first day featured some high scoring games, including:

NZL 49 - SUI 29
CAN 49 - NED 31
USA 44 - JAP 34
GBR 59 - SWE 25
AUS 49 - BEL 37
GER 56 - DEN 34

Tonight's games (our time) feature two games each for every team:

09:00 - United States vs. Germany; CANADA vs. Belgium.
10:30 - Australia vs. Sweden; Denmark vs. Switzerland
12:00 - New Zealand vs. Japan; Great Britain vs. Netherlands
13:30 - CANADA vs. Australia; United States vs. Denmark
15:00 - New Zealand vs. Germany; Great Britain vs. Belgium
16:30 - Sweden vs. Netherlands; Japan vs. Switzerland

There are some photos now available up on the World's site, which feature The Rock, our own Martin Larocque, from Embrun, Ontario (the small town that everyone who was at our 2006 Nationals in Halifax now knows about), and some of our referees, our team staff, and the only Canadian classifier at the worlds, Jenn Stodler.