EUC Update II - Day 1

First things first :

Belgium Mixed vs. Netherlands : 17-12
Belgium Open vs. Ireland Open : 9-17

So there you have it : Plan B (the belgian mixed team) is confirming their G-Spot and Talampaya wins by beating the Dutch in the first game of the day and the week for both teams.
Plan B started out really strong, taking a 6-2 lead but then let the Dutch come back to 8-7 to take another break and get the halftime at 9-7. A few defensive switches later Plan B was able to end the game in a comfortable win with 17-12. Lode's comment after the game winning D by Johnny and floating assist to PJ (who made quite an amazing catch in the endzone between two other guys) was this : "You can't teach tall!"
Not to say that this was an easy game because we didn't play our best game (made some unfortunate throw-aways) and the Dutch were really fired up to get us back after losing to us at G-Spot. They already told us they would like to meet us again sometime this week and they are sure to get their revenge. That was a challenge we gladly accepted.
Another reason for our first win of the week was the breakfast of champions we were served by our lovely five guests (Nele M, Nele S, Silke, Ellen A., Floor) which gave us wings.
Hope they will keep this up all week so we can keep on winning.

The Belgian Open was a little less fortunate with the fit Irish crew giving them hard times from the direct beginning. Being down 5-1 the belgian youngsters gave them somewhat of a comeback in the middle of the game for 9-5 score at halftime, after which the Irish put up the pressure again till 13-5. The belgians then took 3 scores in a row to make it 13-8 but eventually the Irish took the game with 17-9. The only comment I received by the Belgian Open was this : "They were simply too strong."
On to the next day for better games which I'm sure Joren's boys will achieve.

For the other teams the only big upset I heard about was the Irish women's team beating the GB ladies. After beating them in the Windmill poule games they did it again !
IN the open division we saw a truly amazing matchup between the Danish and the Swiss which seemed like a final and showed some brilliant playing ending in a 17-15 win for the Swiss.
I would put my money on the Swiss for making it to the top3 and I would really love to see them play against the European title defenders Great Britain.

That's it for day one, we've had a lot of sunshine, great games, good swimming and we almost forgot all the rain we had last night... I love being in Slovenia and the atmosphere is really nice.
We've got some good vibes and I'm pretty sure all of the people here are having great times.

European Championships, you gotta see it.
Keep on reading, I'll be posting some more results and stats tomorrow or asap and hope you keep supporting us (online?)

All info (scores and statistics, check out Hakke's amazing statistics with seven, yes 7 assists in only 1 game !) at this adress : http://euc2011.ultiorganizer.net