Worlds heats up

The competition and the weather got a lot hotter at worlds today.

With forecast temperatures up to 33C even our 10:30am game against Mexico was hot. The goal for this game was just to finish it quickly and get in the shade. We were pretty successful finishing the game in around half an hour 17-1.

With the initial pool play complete we were now into cross-overs. Finishing second in our pool meant we met the second placed team from the other pool, Canada. We played Team Canada on our pre-tour and had run hard with them so were hoping for the same in this game. Unfortunately the heat was affecting a some of our players and simple errors in the first few points gave Canada a 3-0 lead. We picked things up after a time out but the Canadians physical game combined with the heat meant we didn't peg back the early lead we gave them. It was 9-5 (?) at half. We scored immediately after half to 9-6, with the Canadians answering to make it 10-6. A long point followed where perhaps 15 picks were called, on pretty much every pass which made it difficult for our offense to get any flow. There was some good flow but overall the Canadians played very well and took the game 17-9. The highlight post game was the dance-off between Kylie and Jill Calkin.

We take the 4th place ranking into the quarter-finals which puts us up against Great Britain (5th) at 11:30am tomorrow.