World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship: China try to limit damage before Puerto Rico game
- United States win with ease, Australia and Canada also stay unbeaten, while Chinese Taipei vow to ‘just go hard’ despite skill gap
The United States continued their domination of the World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship as China became the latest to be thrashed by the world No 1s.
The defending champions dispatched the Chinese 29-1 on Sunday, having previously crushed Germany 33-0 and swatted aside Puerto Rico 28-4.
They quickly made clear that more of the same was on the cards at Shek Kip Mei, scoring in the opening minute. Almost all of the face-offs went their way, allowing them to swarm forward and launch moves that, more often than not, ended in goals.
As is the case for most at this tournament, China could only attempt damage limitation, with their midfielder Sarah Junlan Curley saying they needed to “save enough in the legs” for their game against Puerto Rico on Sunday.
“We had a game plan, because we have a tough match tomorrow that got pushed up to 8.30am, so we have a quick turnaround,” she said.
“Knowing that game tomorrow has more implications on playoffs, we were being a little strategic.”
