Budapest, Hungary - June 29 - The USA Men's National Team was defeated in the quarterfinals at the FINA World Championships, suffering a 16-11 loss to Greece earlier today in Hungary.
Alex Bowen,
Hannes Daube, and
Ben Hallock all scored three goals while
Chase Dodd and Tommy Gruwell added one each.
Drew Holland and
Adrian Weinberg combined for ten saves in the cage. Team USA returns to play for 5th-8th place on Friday at 3:00pm et/12:00pm pt against Hungary. Live streaming is available via the FINA YouTube page by
clicking here. For those in Europe, live streaming can be accessed by
clicking here. Post game stats will be available by
clicking here.
Team USA began the game slowly on offense. Bowen scored the only goal for the Americans in the first eight minutes halfway through the opening quarter as the Greeks took an early 3-1 lead. The second period brought much more offense for Team USA as Gruwell and Dodd both scored to open the quarter. Daube scored twice, buoyed by Hallock and Bowen both converting man-up advantages to put six total goals on the board in the second tying the score at halftime, 7-7.
Greece brought the defensive effort to the third period, snuffing out four potential goals with field blocks to go along with two near misses off the goalpost from the United States' attackers. Greece scored three goals in the quarter to lead 10-7 headed to the final frame. In the fourth, the Greeks opened with two goals to push the lead to five. Daube, Bowen, and Hallock (twice) found the back of the net to cut the deficit four times but Greece responded each time to ultimately take the game by five, 16-11.
The United States went 4/10 on power plays and 0/1 on penalty shots while Greece went 6/8 on power plays and 2/2 on penalties.
Scoring -
Stats
GRE 16 (3, 4, 3, 6) S. Argyropoulos Kanakakis 5, K. Genidounias 3, E. Kalogeropoulos 3, A. Vlachopoulos 3, K. Gouvis 1, D. Nikolaidis 1
USA 11 (1, 6, 0, 4) A. Bowen 3, H. Daube 3, B. Hallock 3, C. Dodd 1, T. Gruwell 1
Saves - USA - D. Holland 7, A. Weinberg 3 - GRE - E. Zerdevas 3, P. Tzortzatos 3
6x5 - USA - 4/10 - GRE - 6/8
Penalties - USA - 0/1 - GRE - 2/2
