Vol.7

July 14, 2012

USA defeats Canada in Women’s Semifinals

News and Notes
Mixed: Australia and Canada advance to the finals,
Japan takes the bronze in mixed defeating USA.
Masters: Canada dominates for the majority of thefinals before Australia mounts a comeback. Too little
too late, the Canadians take the gold, Australia thesilver, and Japan the bronze
Women Masters: Canada makes it look closer than itwas, but Team USA takes the gold 15-13 in the finals.
Canada the silver, Japan the bronze.

After losing to both Japan and Canada in pool play,team USA looked like a completely different squad in
the semifinals vs. Canada. After a close start, tied at4-4, the Americans pulled away and never looked
back. The difference in the game was the hucking
efficiency of Canada vs. USA. Canada was unable toconnect on their deep shots, where as theAmericans converted on their opportunities. AlexSynder led the way for the Americans, hitting Alicia
White and Georgia Bosscher for scores. Team USA
went on to win 17-10 and will face Japan in thesemis. Japan won convincingly over Colombia , 1713, also advancing to the finals. Japan defeated theU.S. earlier this week, 16-14, in pool play.

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USA over Canada in aclose one

The first open semifinals
definitely didn’t disappoint,
featuring multiple leadchanges and a devastatingzone, as Great Britain prevailed
15-14. Sweden opened thegame with a break as their 4
man cup wreaked havoc on
the Great Britain offense early.
However, Great Britain’s Daniel
Furnell provided the steadyhand to patiently guide hisoffense through the shifty zone.
With the offense now
comfortable, the defense went
to work… Continued Next Page

Fans were treated to anothergreat semifinal,as the Americans
survived a late run by theCanadians to win 17-16. Team
Canada broke early, taking
advantage of several American
miscues. Oscar Pottinger and John
Hassel were in sync early, bothhitting on deep throws to help theCanadians build their early lead.
Team USA responded withtenacious defense late in the firsthalf, taking a 9-8 lead. Theattitude would carry into the 2ndhalf.. Continued Next Page

Stat Leaders By Division
Open: Davide Morri (Italy) 55 pts
Women’s: Yina Cartagena (Colombia) 79
pts
Mixed: Santiago Montano Tobon(Colombia) 54 pts
Masters: Tom Rogacki (Australia) 51 pts
Women Masters: Nakamura Noriko(Japan) 39 pts

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Great Britain survives Sweden’s zone, advances to the finals (Cont.)…breaking for an 8-5 lead. Sweden rallied, relying on their zone to produce confusion once again. The lead would
be reduced to one at half, Great Britain up 9-8. After the offenses traded to start off the second half, the Swedes
took the lead 11-10, striking quickly after another turnover produced by the zone. After holding to the 12-12,Matthew Parslow took over, involved in scoring the final five points for Great Britain. Sweden tied it at 14s, butchanged their defense from their zone to man. Great Britain’s offense worked beautifully, putting the game away
15-14.

Women’s

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17:15

Awards&Closing Ceremony

Great Britain－ USA

Team USA survives a close call, Canada nearly completes comeback (Cont.)… where the defensive pressure caused Canada to take shots that weren’t easily available, leading to turnovers.
The outcome was all but determined, with team USA leading 15-11. However, the Canadians weren’t done yet,displaying a new zone for the first time in the game. A deep pull set up a pressure situation that led to an errant
throw by Adam Simon in the end zone. With the very short field ,the Canadians stuffed it in, and the comeback
was on. Numerous American mental errors allowed Canada to tie at 16 all. On double game point, Robbie Cahill
and the rest of team USA displayed the patience and poise they are known for, working it slowly downfield. Beau
Kittredge appeared to be stalled out on Canada’s goal line, but the call came back as contested. Kittredge flicked
it back to Cahill and busted to the break side for the goal and the win.
Great Britain’s Jolian Dahl reaches for the sky against Sweden in an exhiirating semifinal. GB won 15-14 and will face USA in the finals.

Women’sOpen
SwedenUSA
New ZealandAustriaSouth Africa
Italy
MexicoAustralia
Japan
Sweden

14 －
17 －
17 －
13 －
16 －
17 －
17 －
17 －
17 －
8 －

15
16
8
16
15
12
15
13
8
17

Great Britain
CanadaColombia
FranceNetherlands
Philippines
Hong Kong
Germany
Finland
CanadaAustralia
Great Britain
Finland
CanadaJapan
Finland
Australia
New ZealandSingapore
Colombia

17 － 414 － 16
15 － 1010 － 17
17 － 1317 － 216 － 11
11 － 17
17 － 7
12 － 16Open Masters

Mixed
New ZealandGermany
Singapore
USA
Colombia
MexicoGermany
Great Britain
MexicoCanadaColombia
Finland
China
FrancePhilippines
CanadaAustralia
China
Finland
Colombia
Great Britain
FranceUSA

17 －
8 －
6 －
6 －
14 －
17 －
16 －
10 －
10 －
13 －
17 －
10 －
13 －

1014
17
17
17
613
16
13
17
917
15

South Africa
Hong Kong
RussiaGreat Britain
Germany
USAJapanHong Kong
Netherlands
RussiaGermany
Philippines
Japan

FranceJapan
Australia

17 － 1117 － 14
13 － 17

Germany
USA
Canada

Women Masters
Great Britain

15 － 6

Germany

CanadaJapan
Australia
Canada17511 － 15
8 － 17
13 － 15Australia
USA
Japan
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Japan RED2

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