Up next was Great Britain. We really wanted to bring our performance from the evening before to this game but unfortunately this didn't happen until the second half. We were trailing 9-1 by half time (though our first score was pretty epic and involved another amazing hammer moment) and everyone needed to take a breather and refocus, not least of all myself. Half time ended and we showed the British what we were really made of. We played zone again and forced them to turnover, though we couldn't always convert the turns to scores. We proved once again that we could rally ourselves and come out stronger as a team, never letting up for a second and we clocked in some more scores. Favourite moment of the game for me was seeing Emma's hand reach over about 4 peoples' heads in the endzone to sweep up a floaty disc, ever the graceful and calm receiver. It was also fun to know that one of the GB players was shrieking at them to 'get a fucking D' because they couldn't turn us over. :)
MVP: Claire Pugh
Score: 5- 17
Second game of the day was against Canada, another team we knew to expect to be very strong. They threw a zone on us but we were very calm and controlled with the disc and our hammers were proving very useful in this tournament! They even got a mention in the call afterwards, saying they were very impressed with our abililty to throw them even into a strong wind. (Deirdre knows all about that!) More impressive throwing was exhibited by Louise as she threw a high release outisde in flick huck, making it too easy for me to catch in the endzone. Courtney afterwards gave a speech- the best they said they'd heard all tournament, made all the better by her Irish accent...
Not the most spirited team we played unfortunately (just ask Amy who got a disc to the face) but their skill and technique outclassed us in the end.
MVP: Deirdre Corbett
Score: 6 - 17
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