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England 95-67 Puerto Rico (78171)

Another win ticked off, taking us to 4-0 on the season with a healthy points difference. Puerto Rico have been aggressive with their GDP predictions this season, so choice of tactics was mainly to avoid that guess which we managed to do. Although the offence wasn’t very effective for us in the game. I did also predict that they would attack inside which is why I switched to man to man rather than 3-2 zone to help us inside, which did work well. Landray top scored with 26 points, with 6 more players adding between 8-12 points. Was hoping for a bigger win, but a win is a win and we move on to the next game.

Our next game is against our neighbours Wales at home. The game result should be a formality, but once again we are looking for as big a win as possible to help our PD before going in to 3 difficult games against New Zealand (a), Croatia (h) and Estonia (a)

England 117-68 Wales (78217)

A 49 point win over our neighbours Wales as Royannais scored 25 points in 24mins tea off the bench. The focus of the game was to achieve as big PD as possible as this was our last game against low ranked opponents. Defensively we looked to restrict the Welsh guard Mack as he had been by far their best scorer this season, that went well as he finished with only 8 points on 3-17 FG. However their second guard Griffiths took advantage and scored 23 points as their only player to reach double figures.

This result has put us up to 2nd in the table which is obviously a really strong position to be in at this stage of the season. Despite this we are definitely not safe just yet with 3 tough games coming up. We next face New Zealand away, a team that beat us recently in a scrimmage, who have 3 losses already and a fighting for qualification still. We then have Croatia (4-1) and Estonia (5-0) who both have strong teams this season and will cause us some major trouble.