It was a good day for the USA U18 Girls team at the Global Youth 7s, as the squad finished the day 2-0 in Auckland, New Zealand.
Game 1
The USA girls team beat McDowell out of Canada 24-0 in their opener. It was defensive that produced the USA tries, as they were generally happy to pin McDowell in their half and force errors. That is basically what happened, although the USA team kept giving penalties that they didn’t need to give up and that slowed their progress.
Some good tackling from Annie Henrich produced the first payoff turnover with Lola Unga bursting through to score the opening try. More defensive pressure eventually produced a scrum and from there Henrich sliced through a half gap and was over. Conversion good and it was 12-0.
Good ball movement set free Shawnee Asiata, on the field as a blood sub just a few seconds earlier, and she was in at the corner to make it 17-0 at halftime.
In the second half some good ball-handling and a nice surge from several players put Asiate in for her second.
The USA was less-than-precise after that and didn’t quite crush the rest of the game, but they came away with the shutout 24-0.