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Sunday, August 26, 2007 @ 6:47 PM Game 102:  USA (USA) vs Australia (AUS) on 8/26/2007 By Joan Gould    1474 Views    Rating: Game 102: 14:30 Los Alamitos, Sunday, August 26, Play-off 5-6 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 4 AUSTRALIA 14 Referees: Mehmet SUNGU (TUR), Radislaw KORYZNA (POL) Quarters: 0-3, 2-3, 1-4, 1-4, Teams: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Chay LAPIN, JP MacDONELL, JW KRUMPHOLZ (1), Arjan LIGTENBERG, Anthony ARTUKOVICH, Matthew SAGEHORN, Janson WIGO (1), Will HINDLE-KATEL (1), Scott DAVIDSON (1), Nico SARDO, Justin RAPPEL, Spencer WARDEN, Andy STEVENS. Head Coach: Doug PEABODY. AUSTRALIA: Joel DENNERLEY, Nathan CARGILL (2), Richard CAMPBELL, Nicholas O¹HALLORAN (4), James YOUNG (1), William MILLER (1), Daniel LAWRENCE (2), Patrick HARMER (2), Stephen CODY, Rhys HOWDEN, Johnno COTTERILL (2), Stephen LEWIS, John HAHN. Head Coach: John FOX. Shooting success: USA 4/22; AUS 14/29 Extra Man: USA 0/13; AUS 5/12 Pen: USA 1/1; AUS 1/1 Goalkeeper saves: USA 8; AUS 6 Match Report: Australia finished the tournament without being beaten in real play. The only loss was in a penalty shootout to Hungary in the quarterfinals. The Aussies put on a show and proved who was the best team outside Europe and advanced from seventh last time to fifth this time. Australia opened strongly with two goals in the first two minutes. A third was added by midway through the period before the USA woke up to the Australian counter. Australia went 4-0 up before USA struck back with two goals. Australia then raced away to 6-2 at halftime and 8-2 thanks to two O¹Halloran goals. Krumpholz sent one across the line for 8-3 but Australia, through two Lawrence goals, finished the period 10-3 ahead. Cotterill, in contention for the All Star team, hammered in the 11th to start the fourth but was fouled out soon after. Sagehorn then had a brain implosion with  a major foul and then a deliberate kick to Cargill, giving up a penalty goal for O¹Halloran to convert. Harmer and Cargill completed the scoring. Davidson scored the USA¹s first goal in 11 minutes of play inside the last minute. Luck was not on the USA¹s side with many one-on-ones missed through poor handling. USA improved from 11th position in Mar del Plata.

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