The present World Lacrosse U20 championship, being held in Hong Kong this week, has seen various absolute blowout scores.
You can argue, particularly for the defending champion Individuals, that the primary three outcomes — a 33-0 win over Germany, a 28-4 win over Puerto Rico, and a 29-1 win over China — are a mirrored image of the group’s previous successes in addition to the seek for excellence on the a part of head coach Kelly Amonte-Hiller.
However it’s not simply the States which have inflicted some heavy outcomes on this match. Canada had a 19-0 win over Wales and a shocking 22-4 win over the Haudenosaunee. Australia took down New Zealand 18-6 and beat Scotland 19-7. And England beat Jamaica 30-3 and Hong Kong 18-1.
What’s happening right here?
Properly, the construction of this match is totally different from the layered nature of the senior ladies’s match, which was held in 2022 in Towson, Md. Within the senior match, the 5 highest-ranked sides — the USA, Canada, England, Australia, and Scotland — performed one another within the first spherical, every understanding that they might make the bracket for the Championship Division.
Within the U20s, there are 4 swimming pools of 5 groups, with solely the 2 prime groups in every pool making the knockout spherical. In different phrases, you gained’t see video games with multiple elite facet on this match till the knockout rounds start later this week.
Whereas that is nice for a number of the growing lacrosse nations to have aggressive video games between them, it has led to some very non-competitive video games to this point. In a recreation which is struggling to indicate that it’s not going to be a North American runaway come the 2028 Olympics, this isn’t one of the best look.