Pan American's: Game 1

Pan American Games...
Game 1
USA vs Venezuela..
Villa 3, Wenger 3, Golda 3, Steffens 2, Gregorka 3, Kraig 6, VanNormon 1

Walking onto the ramp for introductions was definately a thrill tonight..When the home crowd boo’s you it definately gets your attention and gives you a little extra motivation to demonstrate why you are #1 in the world...The first half of the game we come out counter attacking...the score at the end of the first was 5-0...We continued to counter attack and push our transition in the second..we ended the second quarter 12-0 at half....The third quarter we decided to work on our transition game we earned a couple more ejections and our centers went to work and had a scoring festival with perfect form at set...The venezuelans were able to score a backhand and a 6on5..to end the quarter 19-2...The fourth quarter went by with the least amount of goals scored...the venezuelans scored one more 6on5 goal and we put up 2 more goals...The final score was 21-3...

****Canada vs Brazil 4-2...
the brazilians had a packed stadium filled with dancing and cheering..the canadiens struggling a litle bit with the energy and aggresiveness the brazilians showed up with...The end of the first quarter was 1-1...then 2-1...2-1...the canadiens finally opened up the game with two quick goals in the fourth and brazil added a one more to keep it interesting..Brazil played really well...


Cuba vs Puerto Rico
was a nail bitter...with the cubans coming out on top 12-11...Puerto Rico missed a 5m with 45 sec left in the game..Cuba on the next possesion earned an ejection and scored the winning goal..

USA plays CUBA tomorrow at 4:30pm...Go USA!!!!