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G'day from the Australian Junior Men's Team.

The First Day of the PJCC has started today after a day of training yesterday and the Opening Ceremony last night at the Grand Hotel Fujika, our host for the championships. Doug Wright has primed the ice for the competition and it was fast and swingy during training. The Opening Ceremony was great event with an array of Japanese Food as well as a performance by a local traditional drumming troop.

Our First game for the competition was against Korea. We started strongly taking one shot with the hammer on 1 then stealing a shot on the 2^nd. Korea fought back strongly however to be up 3-2 at the break after a steal of two on the 4^th. Korea took the first two ends after the break to be up 5-2 after six before we got a shot back on the seventh. The last end was played well by both teams with Korea needing to make a number of peels and their final shot to hold us to one shot on the last end and win the game 5-4. Our next game is against the old foe, New Zealand, later tonight.

Scores from the competition can be seen at: http://results.worldcurling.org/default.aspx

Top Right: (L-R) Mitchell Frew, Daniel Ross, Dave Thomas (coach), Max Thomas and Angus Young.