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Jamaica Downs Canada Source/Author: Brian Lowe in Jacksonville Posted: 11.19.2010


Jamaica bounced back from its opening round loss to beat Canada 32-12 in the second game of the Atlantic Cup Thursday night in Jacksonville, FL.

The Johnson cousins, Greg and Ashley, scored four of Jamaica’s six tries to pave the way for the win.

On a cool night at Hodges Stadium, Canada struck first when center Geoff Byland crashed over for the opening try of the match within the first 10 minutes.

It followed some enterprising play and completion of sets by the Canadians, who looked good early on.

Their defensive lines were solid and the Jamaicans had some tough sledding through the first quarter, however, in the 23rd minute Ashley Johnson broke through for the equalizer and from that point on Jamaica was in control.

A try by Greg Johnson in the 32nd minute and another by Ashley as time was about to expire at the end of the first half, combined with two conversions by captain and five-eighth Paul White, saw Jamaica go to the locker rooms with a handy 16-4 lead.

As they had done in the first forty, the Canadians were first to get on the board in the second frame with two quick fire tries, the second by skipper Matt Wyles to close the gap to 16-12, but that was as close as the Wolverines would get.

Jamaica seemingly found their second wind and they lifted the tempo of the match. Canada began to get a bit loose around the rucks, enabling Jamaica to exploit some holes in the Canadian defensive patterns.

Tries by Greg Johnson, White and center Alex Brown, two of which were converted by White, sealed the deal for Jamaica.

“Obviously we were disappointed with our effort against the USA and we wanted to put a few things right,” Jamaican captain Paul White told WeAreRugby.

“Everybody was saying that Canada was going to be a pushover, but we made sure the boys knew that these boys were here to play and to be honest they are a really, really tough team and we were prepared for that. We knew we were going to be in a battle and luckily we came away with it in the end.”

Canada looked good in the first half, but lapses in concentration at certain times in the second period was their downfall.

“We got off to a good start. We got on top and we tried to ride that momentum a bit, but we weren’t getting off the line on defense and ultimately that was our main problem throughout the game,” said Canadian captain Matt Wyles.

“We slowed down and we weren’t getting back our ten quick enough so we could come up on our defense and our offense slowed down a little bit also, but we know what we did wrong and we’ll try to fix that.”

Canada is set to play the USA on Saturday afternoon in the final game of the 2010 Atlantic Cup.

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