GB Juniors finally got it all together and pulled off a great win over
Finland in the World Junior Championships. Having lost to USA, Australia,
Columbia (surprise package of the tournament) and a very close game to
Sweden, GB came back from 4-0 down against Finland to trade to 13-10 down
before scoring 5 in a row and eventually winning 18-16. They had beaten
Israel earlier in the week, but they proved to be the whipping boys in the
division losing every game they played.



GB cannot make the semis, but if Columbia beat Finland in the morning as
expected when GB meet Canada, then that should set up a final 5/6 playoff
game for GB against the much improved Sweden. Sweden started the tournament
badly losing 14-12 to Columbia and looking rather poor until they beat GB,
then ran Australia very close. The winner of the match gets the pride of
being the top European team as the semis look like being USA Vs Columbia
(score when they met in the pool stage, 17-0) and Canada Vs Australia (score
in pool stage was 17-13). Maybe it won't be an all North American final if
Australia can get in on the show.



To see how everyone is doing, and what tricks the score-o-matic can do with
player stats, checkout http://www.wjuc2006.org/home.htm



Good luck to all the guys getting their A level results in the morning. It
will be interesting to see who gets their results text through and who plans
to wait until they return.



Kev

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