South Africa pulled one back
but Canada stretched the margin to 15-10 with less than four minutes
remaining — a gap too wide to bridge — and on to 17-11.
For the
second game of the day, an assistant coach was standing as the declared
head coach. Assistant Brad Rowe, head coach of the South African women’s
team took over the reins from Paul Martin, who sat on the bench.
Match 4: 12:10, Group B, CANADA 17 SOUTH AFRICA 11
Quarters: 4-2, 2-3,7-4, 4-2
Referees: Nenad Golijanin (SRB), Masoud Rezvani (IRI).
Extra Man: CAN: 5/8. RSA: 3/8
Pens: CAN: 3/3. RSA: 0/1
Teams:
CANADA: Robin Randall, Constantine Kudaba, Oliver Vikalo (4), Nicolas Constantin-Bicari (4), Justin Boyd (2), Scott Robinson, Alec Taschereau (1), Kevin Graham (3), Devon Diggle (2), John Conway (1), Luka Gasic, Jared McElroy (1), Ivan Marcisin. Head Coach: Alex Beslin.
SOUTH AFRICA: Dwayne Flatscher, Etienne Le Roux (2), Devon Card (3), Ignardus Badenhorst, Nicholas Rodda, Jason Kyte (1), Richard Downes, Ryan Bell (3), Dean Whyte, Pierre Le Roux (1), Nicholas Molyneux, Adam Kajee, Donn Stewart. Head Coach: Paul Martin.
FLASH QUOTES:
Scott Robinson (CAN):
“We have played very strongly today. I felt good. We can wish the best to South Africa for the rest of the competition.”
Justin Boyd (CAN):
“It is our first game. We are getting into it. We are looking forward to the rest of the tournament.”
Donn Stewart (RSA):
“It was a good game. I enjoyed it very much. It was a very physical game. We have to train and work more.”
Adam Kajee (RSA):
“We played well until the third period. Then we slept away, anyway we did pretty well.”