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I PAGE 12THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, MAY 28,2003 www.durhamrcgion.com Canada unchallenged at Worlds Host country strings together seven wins in a row to win gold at World Indoor Lacrosse Championships BY BRAD KELLY Staff Writer OSHAWA - It has been said that defence wins championships, but it's the offence that is getting much of the attention in Canada's gold medal winning performance at the World Indoor Lacrosse Championships. And that's just fine with Steve Toll. The Oshawa resident was an integral integral part of Canada's championship run. culminating with a dominating performance in Saturday's championship championship game that produced a lopsided lopsided 21-4 win over the Iroquois Nationals Nationals in. front of 7,132 at Hamilton's Hamilton's Copps Coliseum. While the goal scorers took care of things at one end of the floor for Canada, the unheralded defence shut down a vaunted Iroquois offence that averaged 20 goals a game heading into the final. In fact, Canada was able to build a 10-0 lead before the Iroquois got on the board 8:41 into the second quarter. Toll, a defensive specialist, was proud of the effort the stingy defenders defenders produced. "We used a Toronto Rock defensive defensive concept and all the other players bought into it," says Toll, one of nine Rock members on the team. "Everyone was so good defensively, defensively, we had a lot of confidence in each other." Canada flexed its dominance in the inaugural event that also included included entries front the United Stales, Australia, Scotland and Czech Republic. Republic. Through seven games of the tournament, tournament, Canada oulscored the opposition opposition 148-42 during games that were also held at venues in Oshawa, Mississauga and Kitchener. Gaining momentum as the tournament tournament progressed, Toll says Canada was able to produce its best game in the final. "I think it was," says the education education assistant at Central Collegiate. "We are that much better than the other countries. The final was the best game possible that we could have played. "Some of the other countries arc still learning, but the U.S. and Iroquois Iroquois played the best players they had (available)," added Toll. The Americans were missing a number of players committed to field lacrosse teams. Toll appeared in six of seven games, scoring four times and adding five assists. With plans to lake the summer off from his usual spot with the Brook- lin Rcdmen to concentrate on new assistant coaching responsibilities with the Whitby Warriors Jr. A team, the 28-year-old is looking forward to playing for Canada again in late- September at the Heritage Cup against the United States in Colorado. Colorado. Steve Toll: Scored four goals and added five assists for Canada during inaugural World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. Logjam at top of Masters standings CLARINGTON- Three teams are tied for first place and the remaining three lied for second in the Clarington Masters Lacrosse League. Of course, that's the scenario scenario you might expect after the opening week of play. It was smooth sailing for the Red Wings, Green Express Express and White Lightning, who all posted wins in week one. The Red Wings got seven goals and one assist from Rob Wilson in a 13-9 victory over the Blue Bandits. Bandits. John Mackenzie and Brent Clemens scored two each in the win, with one apiece from Jack Dowding and Dan Clancy. Dan Floyd replied with four goals and four assists for the Blue Bandits and Derek Kelly added three goals and two assists. Darren Cholod and Pat McGarry had one goal each. Paul Campbell and Billy Vann had four goals each for the Green Express in a 9-5 win over the Black Cadillacs. Mike Weiss had the other goal for the winners. winners. 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