Garrett Billings, who was named 2010 Rookie of the Year as a member of the Toronto Rock, scored five goals in Team Canada's 19-5 win over Australia on Sunday.
CANADA TOPS AUSTRALIA, USA BESTS GERMANY
Canada remains undefeated, USA bounces back from Saturday's loss
07/18/2010
By Dan Ventresca for NLL.comTeam Canada moved to 3-0 in the FIL World Lacrosse Championship with a 19-5 win over Australia on Sunday in Manchester, England.
Garrett Billings (Toronto Rock) scored a game-high five goals, while Dan Dawson (Boston Blazers) John Grant (Rochester Knighthawks), Rhys Duch (Washington Stealth) and Jordan Hall (Orlando Titans) all scored twice.
Zack Greer (Minnesota Swarm) scored a goal and assisted three others. He now leads the team with 11 points (seven goals, four assists) on the tournament.
Canada scored the first nine goals of the game before Australia got on the board midway through the second quarter.
Australia scored twice with less than four minutes remaining, but Dawson extended Canada's lead just twelve seconds before the game ended to make the final 19-5.
Canada scored on just under 80 percent of its shots on net.
On Monday the Canadians will take on Germany at 8:30 a.m ET.
Less than 24 hours after suffering a 10-9 loss to team Canada, team USA ran away from Germany 22-4 Sunday.
Paul Rabil (Washington Stealth) put the Americans on the board two minutes into the game. Ryan Boyle (Orlando Titans) and Ryan Powell (Edmonton Rush) combined for two goals and two assists to put USA on top 3-0. Max Seibald (Philadelphia Wings) and Kyle Sweeney (Wings) each added goals, and the US held an 8-1 lead after one quarter.
Rabil tallied his second goal of the game and Drew Westervelt (Wings) scored on the power-play to give the US an 11-3 lead at the half.
Seibald and Powell each scored twice in the third and Westervelt added Team USA's 21st goal of the game in the fourth.
The Americans are now 2-1 in the tournament and have two more games on their Blue Division schedule. The Germans were moved into the Blue Division after the Iroqouis Nationals team failed to make it to England.
USA will play again on Monday when it faces England at 2:30 ET.
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