Nailed It!

Canada started day #2 with wins over Zimbabwe and a very satisfying victory over Wales to earn a spot in the Bowl Final against a much improved Kenyan side.  The Kenyans carried the emotion of a final game for coach Treu but it was never to bear fruit.  From the get-go, it was pretty much all Canada.

Fuli "danced" over for the first tally with a ripper of an effort to stay in bounds after three minutes.  He followed this up to bull over for try two, only to be ruled as a knock on in the grounding stage.  However, the boys kept the pressure on with some huge scrum shunts and good tackling.  Today the structure and patience were present and it was from one such scrum that Hammond crossed for his third try of the tourney to put the Maple Leaf ahead 10 - 0 at the interval.

There was to be no "repeat performance" from yesterday's France let-down and although conditions became testy with a slippery ball and field, it was Duke who next showed great vision, when at the three minute mark, he backed himself on a chip and chase to cross for his fifth tournament try, 19 - 0, Canada. With about 1:50 left, Mooner made a great run from a pressure position on his own line, some fifty meters later, he was tackled and the ball squirted out, back into enemy hands and they made good with their sole tally of the match and a minute on the clock.  From the kickoff, a loose ball was snapped up by Hammond, on to Zaruba who released Pat Kay for a fifty meter scamper for his first series tally and a 24 - 5 capper.

I liked Hammond, Fuli and Moonlight as the standouts but the group was very, very good in this match.  Again, the closeness of all the matches in this series is evident and no one is a surety, (U.S. d. Fiji!)  You good things, one and all....'onyas!