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Junior World Championship: U.S. football team romps to title
OSU recruit Klein helps squad roll past No. 1 seed
Monday, July 6, 2009
By Zach Swartz
The Columbus Dispatch
Bob Rossiter | The (Canton) Repository
Members of the U.S. team crowd around the IFAF Junior World Championship trophy after yesterday's win.
CANTON -- The IFAF Junior World Championship game didn't get off to the kind of bang that Team USA was used to, but it didn't really matter.
The No. 2-seeded U.S. team, which had scored a combined 133 points in its first two tournament games, led No. 1 seed Canada 18-3 at halftime; it was the Americans' smallest halftime lead in the tournament.
Also, Canada had done something that neither of America's first two opponents had been able to do: score.
But Canada wouldn't score again. The U.S. team, which had lost to Canada in the previous three NFL Global Junior Championships, won 41-3 to lock up the first International Federation of American Football Junior World Championship gold medal.
"The kids came from all over America with a couple things to bind them together -- a love of the game of football and the love of their country," said coach Chuck Kyle.
Ohio State freshman and U.S. team captain Storm Klein helped lead a defense that allowed a three-game total of 91 yards. On the second play of the game, the former Licking Valley linebacker picked off Canada quarterback Jeremie Doyon-Roch, and the U.S. team scored on the next play: a 17-yard pass from future Baylor quarterback Bryce Petty to Jamal Davis of Florida Atlantic.
The U.S. team finished with 408 total yards, its fewest in the tournament.
"We understood that we were going into this tournament against a Division-I football team in the making," said Canada coach Glen Constantin, whose team finished with 49 total yards. "We're humble enough to understand that."
Petty, the game's MVP, was 14-for-14 passing for 190 yards and three touchdowns. Soon-to-be Virginia Tech running back David Wilson ran for 87 yards and a touchdown.
Both Klein and offensive lineman Jack Mewhort, a future Buckeye teammate, started each of the three games. Klein finished the tournament with six tackles, one sack and the interception. Fellow Ohioans Pat Hinkel, a safety from Cleveland St. Ignatius, and David Herman, a Cincinnati St. Xavier linebacker, added 2 1/2 and three tackles, respectively.
"We went out there, and we had something to prove," Klein said. "Whoever ranked us No. 2, hopefully next time there is something like this, he thinks about that next time we play. I think our game and what happened out on the field speaks for itself, and we're No. 1."
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Team USA by the numbers
Monday, July 6, 2009
Total points-points allowed: 174-3
Total yards-yards allowed: 1,451-91
ROAD TO THE TITLE
June 27: U.S. 78, France 0
July 1: U.S. 55, Mexico 0
Saturday: U.S. 41, Canada 3
Tournament final results
1. United States (No. 2 seed)
2. Canada (1)
3. Japan (4)
4. Mexico (3)
5. Germany (5)
6. Sweden (6)
7. France (7)
8. New Zealand (8)
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Commentary: USA schools Canada in Junior World final
Published: Monday, July 6, 2009
By John Kampf
JKampf@News-Herald.com
CANTON — School is out for the summer.
For the International Federation of American Football, that means school is adjourned for the next four years.
Check back again in 2012 when the IFAF Junior World Championship reconvenes at a site yet to be determined to see if the world learned anything from the education it received this past week at Fawcett Stadium.
With the Professional Football Hall of Fame as a backdrop in Canton, Team United States wrapped up an impressive three-game tournament on Sunday, routing defending Junior World champion Canada, 41-3.
Oh, Canada.
"The gold medal is where it's supposed to be," said Detroit product and Michigan State signee Chris Norman, who led the USA onto the field prior to the game carrying the Stars and Stripes.
"It's home, and it's not going anywhere."
At least as long as the United States is playing in this tournament.
The U.S. was playing in its first IFAF tournament, which is about as unimaginable as a worldwide hockey tournament being played without Canada in the field.
Once the Americans showed up, the party was over. The tournament field's mindset went from wanting to be world champions to, "We're shooting for second place."
Welcome to school. Leave that apple on our desk.
"We wanted to leave no doubt," said Ohio State recruit Jack Mewhort, "that the best football is played right here. In America."
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Ohio State recruit Storm Klein set the tone for Team USA’s dominant defensive performance. The linebacker from Newark Licking Valley High School intercepted Canada’s Jeremie Doyon-Roch on the second play of the game. That led to Petty’s touchdown pass to Davis.
“To start off like that was big for us,” Klein said. “To give the offense good field position was a key part of the game.”
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Team USA wins world football title
By Jonas Fortune
Beacon Journal sports writer
Jul 05, 2009
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Sorry, Canada, this is Team USA's game
By Patrick McManamon
Beacon Journal sports writer
Jul 05, 2009
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ALL-TOURNAMENT HONORS
Coach: Takao Yamazaki, Japan (bronze medal, 2-1 finish)
MVP: David Wilson, RB, USA (425 yards, 8 touchdowns over 3 games)
ALL-TOURNAMENT FIRST TEAM
Offense
QB: Yuichiro Araki, Japan
RB: David Wilson, USA
RB: Steven Lumbala, Canada
TE: John Plasencia, USA
WR: Jumpei Yoshimoto, Japan
WR: Julian Bailey, Canada
OL: Oday Abushi, USA
OL: Jack Mewhort, USA
OL: Evan Swindall, USA
OL: Aaron Price, USA
OL: Kirby Fabien, Canada
Defense
DL: Lukas Muller, Germany
DL: Pestin Brown, USA
DL: Chris Henderson, USA
DL: Bj?rn Werner, Germany
LB: Storm Klein, USA
LB: Chris Norman, USA
LB: Alexander Borgs, Germany
DB: Shamarko Thomas, USA
DB: Mark Nzecho, Germany
DB: Corey Lillard, USA
DB: Jordan Poyer, USA
K/P: Mike Loftus, USA
PR/KR: Niko Lester, Germany
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07-05-2009, 05:48 PM
No safety or not, just how in the [censored] do you go from your opponent's 37 yard line and end up having to kick the ball out of your own end zone to avoid a defensive TD? What was the "to-go" yardage on 4th down when they attempted the punt...4th and 60?
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