World Indoor Lacrosse Championship
 

The 2011 WILC kicks off today. The US plays their first game today.

Edit: Was wrong about the Iroquois Nationals. Hae actually lost a little of the sympathy for the team when I looked further into the situation. Seems like they could have been included in England if they just used their Canadian/American passports.

3rd FIL Synot Tip World Indoor Lacrosse Championship Prague 2011

To add some more details. There are two 4 team groups for the first round.

The Groups are...

Group A
England
Canada
Slovakia
Australia

Group B
Iroquois Nation
Czech Republic
USA
Ireland

Results

Iroquois Nationals 23 Ireland 3

Andrew Secore, IRO (1 G, 2 A)
Roger Vyse, IRO (2 G, 3 A)
Dean Hill, IRO (4 G)
Thomas Montour, IRO (1 G, 2 A)
Cody Jamieson, IRO (4 G, 2 A)
Holden Vyse, IRO (1 G)
Cory Bomberry, IRO (1 G, 3 A)
Jeff Shattler, IRO (3 G, 5 A)
Stuart Hill, IRO (4 G)
Sydney Smith, IRO (1 A)

Kevin Owens, IRL (1 G)
Brian Gillis, IRL (2 G)
Tim O'Connor, IRL (1 A)
Sean Gibson, IRL (1 A)


England 20 Australia 8

Andrew Suitor, ENG (4 G, 1 A)
Tom Johnson, ENG (3 G, 3 A)
Chris Manwaring, ENG (4 G)
James Delaney, ENG (5 G, 3 A)
Cayle Ratcliffe, ENG (2 G, 2 A)
Shawn Cable, ENG (2 G, 4 A)

Dylan McDougall, AUS (1 G, 1 A)
Tim Fry, AUS (1 G)
Jeff Joy, AUS (3 G)
Martin Hyde, AUS (2 G)
Nigel Wapper, AUS (1 G)
Jacob Egan, AUS (1 A)

The Iroquois Nation has actually been in every world championship. They lost in the final in 2003 20-2 to Canada and then in 2007 they lost 15-14 in OT to Canada in the final as well.

Yeah, that's only a story because at the outdoor world championships last summer England refused entry to them with their Iroquois passports and the players refused to use their US and Canadian ones.

Oops, sorry. There was a big ceremony at the NLL all-star game about it and I must have misunderstood what they said about it.

Final Results of the day...

USA 14 Czech Republic 5

Brendan Mundorf, USA (2 G)
Sean Morris, USA (3 G, 1 A)
Jack Reid, USA (2 G)
Brian Langtry, USA (1 G, 1 A)
Drew Westervelt, USA (2 G)
Kevin Buchanan, USA (1 G, 1 A)
Chris Schiller, USA (1 G)
Matt Alrich, USA (1 G)
Mitchell Belisle, USA (1 G)
Casey Powell, USA (4 A)
Greg Downing (1 A)

Jamie Plunkett, CZE (2 G, 1 A)
Petr Poup, CZE (1 G)
Kyle Ross, CZE (1 G, 1 A)
Chet Koneczny, CZE (1 G, 1 A)
Pavel Dosly, CZE (1 A)

Group A

1.	ENG	1	1	0	20:8	1
2.	CAN	0	0	0	0:0	0
3.	SVK	0	0	0	0:0	0
4.	AUS	1	0	1	8:20	0

Group B

1.	IRO	1	1	0	23:3	1
2.	USA	1	1	0	14:5	1
3.	CZE	1	0	1	5:14	0
4.	IRL	1	0	1	3:23	0

Columns
Games Played
Wins
Losses
Goals For:Against
No idea what that last column is (Points? 1 per win? no idea)

Remaining first round results...

Canada 27 Slovakia 1
USA 22 Ireland 1
Iroquois 25 Czech Republic 5
England 24 Slovakia 7
Canada 26 Australia 2
Iroquois 11 USA 10
Australia 12 Slovakia 7
Canada 28 England 5
Czech Republic 18 Ireland 5

Looks like the USA/Iroquois game was the best one of the first round. Looks like it was a back and forth game.

Knockout Round

Ireland and Slovakia play each other twice to determine 7th and 8th.

USA plays Australia (the winner plays Canada in the Semis)
England plays Czech Republic (winner plays Iroqois Nationals in the Semis)

Canada and Iroquois Nationals have a bye.


Canada had the best draw. USA, Iroqois Nationals and Canada are the top three teams. Canada had three cream puffs in their pool. (their 81-8 first round goal differential says it all)