Day Two:
With an early training session we started working on mistakes from the first match. Cliona was still out from a head injury so we only had 11 players for the day.
After a filling lunch we were looking forward to our encounter with Holland and were busy preparing. We completed our warm up and had our team talks. We discovered that Holland were very physical and so it took us a while to get into the game fully. We made some mistakes and with being under pressure, Holland began to break away. We attempted to start again but we found it difficult to cope with the strong defensive Holland side. Holland had a big advantage heading into half time with such a large scoring margin. After the break we pulled ourselves together and fought hard to the end. We played far better holding Holland to just 8 points in the last quarter.
The rest of the day was spent recovering with a few team building activities.We all played pool, table tennis and relaxed in anticipation of tomorrows' two games.
Final Score: Ireland 27 Holland 97
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