Glenelg Korfball Club

Australia faced Portugal for an opportunity to play off for 5th place on
Tuesday. Hamo led the way for the Australians with 7 goals (including 3
penalties) and the opening 2 goals of the match.
It was tight at half time 7-6 in favour of Portugal and "game-on" for
the second half....
Unfortunately, no-one told the Australians who seemingly forgot to
return to court as the Portuguese put on the opening 4 goals unanswered.
The Portuguese females were dominant all match, scoring freely in
offence (more than half the Portuguese score) and denying the strong
Australian female lineup many opportunities in defence. Only Jess May
scored and only once. But the Australian males also struggled to find
the basket. Australia adding only 4 goals to 15 in the second half!
Going down 22-10, a very disappointing result given the half time figures.

Great Britain squared up against Czech Republic in a tight, exciting
(despite very inaccurate shooting) match. After a blazing start, taking
the lead out to 2-6, the Czech's missed consecutive penalties and
allowed the British back into the game. Both team's inaccuracy evident
in the half time scoreline 5-6.
Despite losing a star player to a nasty knee injury, at the 53rd minute,
the Czech's were up by 3 and looking to finish off the match but the
British found a patch of accurate shooting from distance and pegged back
the margin to be down one goal at the 56th minute...
3 minutes later the scoreboard had not changed and it seemed the Czech's
would scrape home a win. With seconds remaining however, Britain were
awarded a free pass and levelled the score to take the match into the
first Golden Goal decider for the tournament.
The Czech's had the first attack in extra time and scored to put the
British under extraordinary pressure to re-level the score in their
first attack. They failed to do so and Czech were jubilant. 12-13 Golden
Goal..

The final 2 matches of the day were to determine who would play off for
first place on Tuesday. Belgium faced Russia but unlike the warm up
friendly in China, the Belgians totally outclassed the Russians in this
match. It was over in the first 12 minutes with Belgium up 7-0 from 6
different scorers! The Russians only managed to score their second goal
of the match in the 35th minute!
Sharpshooter Bart Cleyman (who plays in the Semi-Pro Dutch
Korfballeague) finished with 10 goals (5 Penalties). Final score 24-8.
The Belgians have not been challenged as yet in this tournament.. and
talk of the Taiwanese being the next big hope to upset the Dutch seem to
be premature..

Finally, as expected, the Dutch easily accounted for the Taiwanese. Jos
Roseboom with 9 goals (3 penalties) and purportedly worlds best player
Andre Kuipers with 5. Final score 29-13..

Tuesdays Finals are as follows.
2pm (Adelaide Time) 7-8th: Australia - Great Britain
4pm 5-6th: Czech Republic - Portugal
6pm 3-4th: Chinese Taipei - Russia
8pm 1-2nd: Netherlands - Belgium