Day 3 at Worlds

Results from Day 3...

Dingos defeated Venezuela 17-9
Firetails defeated Switzerland 17-9
Thunder lost to Colombia 10-15
Terra defeated United Kingdom 17-5
Taipans defeated France 17-6
Barramundis defeated Italy 17-5
Thunder lost to United States 4-17
Firetails defeated Italy 17-9
Terra defeated United States 15-11
Dingos defeated Germany 17-7


Once again, the Dingos went though the day relatively unchallenged. They got a couple of early breaks against Venezuela and closed the game with a run of 4 goals. Against Germany, the teams traded early, but with 10 out of the last 12 goals, Australia came away with a clean win. Interesting to note, every Dingo has picked up stats, with only 4 not catching a goal.

Similar deal with the Firetails - all but one player has either a goal or assist next to their name. She has a good excuse though, she's down with the flu. Instead of hearing me ramble on, have a read of Rach Grindlay's perspective of today.

Folks keeping up with the Barramundis' campaign would know that Brett "Sweet As" Middleton came down with a torn PCL last week, but those watching the score reporter today would have been surprised to see "goal: #1 Middleton" appear not once, but 3 times! Discussion flew about on Facebook and Ultitalk - was it a mistake? Was someone else wearing his shirt? Did he turn a 'gimp point' into a 'gimp half'? All our questions were answered in Adam Mortimer's report.

The Taipans unbeaten run continues, with the French...I really wanted to type 'surrendering' but that is far too cheap for my highbrow brand of humour. Everyone getting plenty of the disc, with no "stats stars" in this game. All but one Taipan has scored a goal or assist.

Thunder's day was disappointing compared to the rest of the green and gold, but they had much tougher assignments, having to overcome 2006 WJUC bronze and gold medalists, Colombia and US. Colombia went 2-0 up early, but the boys simply couldn't break back. Colombia scored 4 of the last 5 to seal victory. US, having conceded only 8 points in their first two games, ran right over the top of Thunder, winning 17-4.

But the big story of the day is Terra . They came out firing against Great Britain, taking half 9-2, and winning 17-5. They went up against the United States as underdogs, and needing a win to stay in contention for a top 3 round robin finish. After 30 minutes, US were up 5-4. But in the second half hour of play the girls turned it on and scored 8 goals to 3. The last half hour saw the teams trade points until Terra completed a fantastic 15-11 victory.