Chugging Along

Beat Germany... check.
Beat the French... check.
Beat the Venezuelans... check.
Beat the Japanese... check.

The top three results were pretty much guaranteed. The German game was a bit closer then it needed to be but I think some players drank a bit too much the night before in anticipation of an easy game. In fact all three games were closer than they needed to be but we rested a lot of starters. It's nice to know that we can get to where we need to be with help from everyone on the roster. And where is it that we need to be you may ask? Well at this point we are pretty much in the semis and that is where we need to be.

Our game against the Japanese was interesting. None of us knew what to expect. The scores in this tournament so far haven't really given us an indication of who is strong or not. We also knew that the Japanese team's last hope of getting into the semis was to beat us. We were fired up and came out like I've never seen us play. The Japanese are the fastest team at the tournament and we matched them like no one else did all week. They came out really hard and fast and we just took it to them. We took half 9-2 and then rested up some players and closed out the game 17-10.

It was definitely the most tiring game of the week so far. I'm pretty beat right now but I'll be ready to go against the Aussies tomorrow. Those guys just wouldn't stop running and running hard. I really need to go to sleep and rest up for tomorrow's early day.

On another note I actually got to do the post game speech to the French team because I speak the best French on the team. It was kinda fun. I'm not sure the French understood my Quebecois but they all laughed when I thought I was being funny so they must have understood a bit.

DF