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After day one it is Canada's Juniors 3, others 0. The Junior Men started the day playing our hosts from Finland. We had a total of five turnovers all game. Our offense could not be matched by the Finns defense. Handlers and cutters were all strong. Some defensive highlights: Teddy's layout d-blocks that led to at least three first half points. Eric, Yvan, Garrett and Dan all making at least one acrobatic defensive plays. Despite this our defense has definite room for improvement. Final score Canada 17, Finland 3. Game two, six hours later against European Champs Sweden, began in a torrential downpour. This caused both teams to have a mild case of the drops. But, the Canadians managed to recover and took control of the game. Sweden really had no opportunity to catch up and Canada went on to win 17-4. Once again our offense was strong, in fact it even improved in the second half, as we started to take advantage of our deep threat. With cutters all moving at the same time and handlers in constant motion, the Swedish defenders had no idea which way to go. Lay-out points by Josh and Raefel, along with several guys skying their defenders were highlights of the game. Handlers basically controlled the game. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the Junior Women's game. But, they didn't take long to walk over Great Britain, 17-0. When I asked about the players who stuck out, the answer was "everyone". Great Britain just couldn't keep up. Today's weather was quite interesting, as it has been since we arrived on Thursday. Sun, clouds, rain, cool, warm and some wind from time to time. The bus driver told me today that Finland has set record levels of rainfall this year. The fields are incredibly soft and green (actually mud now). Hopefully, they will last the week. If you know anyone who is interested in receiving these updates, please have them send me an email (or send me their email address). Good night, P.S. All of Canada's teams won all of their games today, the only country to do so. This includes the women beating USA 17-10 (an excellent game to watch).
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