Monday, August 4, 2008

Oh Canada

I'm blaming the jet lag. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Because despite some great offense, some wonderful passing, we just couldn't find the endzone. The important lesson we learned in the first half though was that despite the score, we could definitely run with Canada. We could get open, we could make break passes, and our hozo offense was working. So the first half blanking was a little embarrassing, but it was filled with missed opportunites. Pinky had an amazing layout that he just missed by inches. Finn through an awesome break that was fumbled in the endzone. And I almost slipped a break around that my marker just got a finger on and Mike was able to pick up. Too many missed opportunities, but still a promising start to the day.

But we were able to regroup at halftime. We slowed down and took some deep breaths. And we decided to keep playing as hard as we could. We still gave up a few more to Canada before we finally broke through. The O-line did an amazing job of working it down the field with great swings and tight cuts from the stack. Finally, Pete found Andre in the endzone to open up the floodgates. It may habe been 12-1, but we were finally on the board and new we could play against them. The D-line couldn't turn back Canada on the next point, but the O-line came right back out firing on all cylanders. Jit through up a nice hammer to Pete and Canada had a massive D on it, but Pinky was in the perfect place to pick it up off the ground. Canada had two quick points and then it was the D lines turn to get on the board. Ryan made a great break throw to Mike who then led an open side cutting Tavish for another South African score. Canada scored again and we put out a hot line of Andre, Pete, Ryan, James, Finn, Mike H., and myself. This was an intense point with several turns on both sides. Harbor had some awesome D's against some of the top Canadian players and then we were able to finally move it down the field. Pete found James in the endzone for the fourth South African score.

Canada closed out the game on the next point, but we definitely played a great second half against them. We definitely had some great D's and awesome O. The team is coming together well with some beautiful O and lots of intense D. Next up, is another tough game against Sweden, and then the big day tomorrow!

But a big up to Bridget (Sweat Chilli) and the Canadian mixed team. They came back against Japan from 15-11 down to win 17-16 ! How aboot that, eh?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Yeay! What a great blog and thanks for keeping us up-to-date with what is happening in Cananda.

We will hold thumbs for your game tomorrow!!
:-)
Marlise