Canada 15, United States 10

2006 International Lacrosse Federation (ILF) World Championship

July 22, 2006

Additional Championship Game Notes

-Canada’s 15-10 victory ended Team USA’s 28-year, 38-game winning streak in ILF play. The U.S.’s last loss came to Canada in the 1978 ILF final, in overtime and by a 17-16 score. Team USA’s all-time record in ILF play now stands at 47-2, by far the best among ILF-member nations.

-It was the sixth time that the U.S. and Canada have squared off in the ILF tournament championship game. The U.S. is 4-2 in those games.

-Paid attendance at TD Waterhouse Stadium was 7,735. It was the largest crowd of the tournament and largest in ILF play since 10,793 fans shoehorned into Homewood Field on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore to witness another USA-Canada championship game (won by the Americans in overtime, 15-14).

-Canada held the U.S. to 10 goals, fewest ever scored by the Red, White and Blue in ILF play. The previous low mark for the Americans was 11 scored against England in 1967, which was a four-team round-robin tournament prior to the 1974 inception of the ILF. In official ILF play, England held the U.S. to 12 goals on July 5, 1978.

-The Americans did score 123 goals in seven games – their second-most productive tournament (1994, 150 goals, seven games).

-Michael Powell passed out two assists in the championship game. He holds the U.S. record for career in ILF play with 40. He equaled his U.S. mark for most assists in a single ILF tournament with 20. He now ranks second all-time with 59 career points, behind only Mark Millon (67, 1994-98).

-Canada’s Geoff Snider won the ILF Best and Fairest Player (MVP) Award, marking the first time since 1986 that an American did not win the award.

-The next ILF field lacrosse competition will be for its Under-19 division of play. Canada will once again serve as host. The ILF U-19 World Championships will take place July 3-12, 2008, in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The U.S. is undefeated in U-19 play since the event’s 1988 inception.

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