Quarterfinal Round Results
USA 10 Serbia 9
Hungary 6 Greece 4
Italy 20 Romania 2
Spain 18 Germany 9
Semifinal Schedule - July 1 (subject
to change)
1pm pt Germany vs Greece
3pm pt Romania vs Serbia
5pm pt Spain vs Hungary
7pm pt Italy vs USA
USA 10 Serbia 9
Hannes Daube's clutch two goals in
the final three minutes seal Team USA's 10-9 come-from behind win over reigning
Olympic champion Serbia, in quarterfinal action of the World Cup.
After a stellar defensive stop on a
Serbia power play, Daube received an outlet pass on transition and powered in a
cross-cage shot to tie the game at 9.
In the next USA possession, Daube drew an ordinary foul from outside and
took the shot on his own to give the USA its first lead since a 3-2 advantage
in the first quarter. The 10-9 score would stand as final.
Behind terrific goaltending by Adrian
Weinberg, the USA defense blanked Serbia 4-0 in the final frame. Weinberg
finished with 15 saves in net.
In the game's opening quarter, the
teams went back and forth with Serbia's Strahinja Rasovich scoring twice around
Ryder Dodd's score for the USA.
Max Irving answered with back-to-back
goals to put the home team up by one. The 3-2 lead wouldn't keep for long, as
Serbia scored four unanswered goals to close out the half, keeping team USA and
its home crowd at bay.
Irving would then break the USA's scoring
drought, scoring his third goal with under six minutes to play in the third
quarter.
Two possessions later, a powerful
catch-and-shoot cross-cage shot from Alex Bowen pulled USA within one.
Serbia went into the fourth quarter
with a 9-6 lead as Rasovic and Marco Radulovic scored with less than one minute
remaining in the third.
Johnny Hooper scored his first goal
of the night after Irving came away with the ball during the Serbian
transition. Irving drew an exclusion, quickly found Hooper who gained enough ground to power the ball in the
back of the net.
Serbia would have four offensive
chances before the USA would gain possession back.
Ben Hallock drew a penalty shot from
center and Hooper converted to make it a one goal game, 9-8, with 4:26 remaining.
Daube would then score the team's
final two goals to seal the victory.
Irving led the USA team in scoring with three, and Daube and Hooper each
contributed two.
Hungary 6 Greece 4
Hungary outlasted Greece in a
physical, defensive battle to come out victorious, 6-4, in the third game of
the World Cup quarterfinals.
Hungary goalie Soma Vogel was
brilliant in the cage, keeping Greece without a goal in both the second and
fourth quarters en route to saving a total of nine shots.
Greece led 2-0 in the early stages of
the game with goals from Konstantinos Kakaris and Dimitrios Nikolaidis.
Bouncing back, Hungary evened out the
match scoring on two power-play opportunities in the final minute of
first-quarter play. First, Szilard Jansik drew an exclusion and quickly found
the back of the net, before Vince Pal Vigvari scored the equalizer with :06
left.
The officials needed to go to the
replay booth to ensure the only score of the second quarter, a ball by Gergo
Zalanki did indeed fully cross into the goal, before awarding Hungary with its
first lead of the game. Hungary would
cling to that 3-2 score heading into halftime.
In the opening minute of the third
quarter, Greece's Efstathios Kalogeropoulos found the back of the cage to even
the score and break his team's 12-minute scoring drought.
The Greek's ball handling skills were
on full display, as Ioannis Fountonouslie powered home a slick no-look,
over-head flick from Stylianos Argyropoulos to give the Greek a one-goal lead.
The lead wouldn't last long, however. Just over a minute later, Hungary's Dene
Varga equaled the game at 4.
Hungary scored first in the fourth
quarter, a backhanded shot by Jansik to take a 5-4 lead.
Varga powered in a penalty shot with
2:15 remaining to put Hungary up for good, 6-4. Varga and Jansik led all
scorers with two goals each.
Italy 20 Romania 2
It was an offensive exposition for
Italy, racing out to a 5-0 start in the opening quarter and commanding a 10-1
halftime lead, before running away with a 20-2 victory over Romania in the second
overall game of the World Cup quarterfinals.
Italy's Andrea Fondelli showed off
his versatility early, scoring low from the post on a power play and then
firing his cannon from deep for his second goal, both within the first 2:14 of
the match. He finished the game with three goals.
Italy took advantage of every Romania
miscue, exploiting a miscommunication off the second-quarter sprint, with a
wide open Luca Marziali scoring in just under :11 seconds.
Romania finally got on the board when
Tudor-Andrei Fulea made good on a 6-on-4 power play opportunity with :08
remaining in the half.
Italy enjoyed a balanced scoring
attack with eight different players finding the back of the net. Fondelli,
along with Francesco DiFulvio, Giacomo Cannella, Edoardo DiSomma and Matteo
Iocchi Gratta each posted three goals.
Between the posts, Italy's Marco Del
Lungo saved five in three quarters, while Romania goalie Marius-Florin Tic
recorded five saves through three quarters, including a blocked penalty shot in
the first.
Spain 18 Germany 9
Spain shot out to a first-quarter,
four-goal lead and never looked back while defeating Germany, 18-9 in the
opening game of the World Cup quarterfinals. Alvaro Granados Ortega opened the
scoring :51 into the game and finished with three goals for a heavily favored
Spain team, while teammate Alberto Munarriz Egana led all scorers with five.
Trailing 6-2 after 8 minutes of
play, Germany held Spain scoreless in
the first four minutes of the second quarter and pulled within a three goal margin
on a beautiful lob shot by Mateo Cuk. But Alberto Barroso Macarro found the
back of the net for his first of two goals, to extend the Spain lead to four.
The Spanish team made good on two
more power play opportunities and took a 9-4 advantage into the half.
Spain controlled the game, drawing 12
total penalties and scoring on seven-of-10 power play opportunities.
Bernat Sanahuja joined Spain's parade
of goal scorers with three.
For Germany, Cuk's three goals led
the team, while Yannek Fabian Chiru, Zoran Bozic and Denis Strelezkij finished
the game with two a piece.
Two goalies split time for Spain with
Unai Aguirre acquiring eight saves in the first half and Eduardo Barrio saving
seven in the final two frames. Germany
goalie Felix Andreas Benke turned away six shots in three quarters of work.
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