USA VS Russia

We beat the Russians 12-7...
After day 2 of competition we found out that the Russians were eliminated from advancing with their loss to China and our tie with Italy..We didnt know what Russian team we would find on Day 3 of competition..What we did know is that regardless of how the Russians were going to treat their game, we needed to come out and make a statement..We needed to win to still give us a shot at advancing first in our bracket..However, with the tie we also needed to wait and see the end result of the Italy/China game..I tip my hat off to the Chinese they are playing really well and taking advantage of every opportunity they get..They lost to the Italian 10-9...which helped us win our bracket..We needed China to win, tie or not lose by more than one goal and not have a higer score than our game...to determine the tie breaker between Italy and US...I guess you could say luck was in our favor and all those things happened last night..So now we wait and train to play against the winner of the quarterfinal between Australia/china...

Scorers:
USA: 12 (5,3,2,2) N. Golda 3, B. Villa 2, A. Gregorka 2, B. Hayes 1, P. Cardenas 1, J. Steffens 1, E. Windes 1, M. van Norman 1RUS: 7 (0,2,4,1) O. Turova 2, S. Konukh 2, E. Prokofyeva 1, E. Pantyulina 1, E. Soboleva 1Saves - USA - B. Armstrong 10, J. Hipp 1 - RUS - V. Vorontsova 16x5 - USA - 4/6 (2/2 penalties) RUS - 2/6