the night before once again. With the mental advantage and better rested legs we outworked Columbia again, they barely had enough gas in the tank to finish the game. Canada won over Columbia 16-7. That night the Hislops took the teams out for a three-course meal at a hotel. This was a tradition the nights before finals of worlds past always resulting in gold medals. Finals, after going 6-0 in pool play as


well as two convincing wins in playoffs we were jacked to play Japan for the Gold. We knew they played well as a team since they were the university squad that won nationals. After watching their women lose to Australia on Universe Point the stage was set. For most of us it would be the biggest game of our lives to this point, it was for me without a doubt. Judging by the amount of


adrenaline pumping through me for the six hours leading up to the game, you would think stores were depleted. Not the case, as during our pre-game speeches and hockey night in Canada cheer we reached a new high, euphoric and confident as we began the game. Canada was pulled to and it started as


an offensive shootout, with neither D-line earning a turn until 4-3. That’s when Canada sparked by Nathan Dandurand’s huge layout block on a handler dump, the d-line worked it up until hitting Mike Jones on a layout pancake catch in the endzone for the first break. Next my D-line went out and threw a 1-3-3 zone and got a block in the wall, which I converted to Dave So from about 10 yards outside the endzone, two straight breaks to take the


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lead 6-3. Japan answered right back with an offensive point then break of their own to bring it to 6-5. After which we traded to be up at half 9-7. The second half saw some more calm


offence trading until 13-12 for us when they broke to tie it at thirteens. We scored on O then broke back maintaining our one


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