{"id":1570,"date":"2016-02-12T03:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T08:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2020-01-14T02:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T06:47:47","slug":"12-north-american-uwr-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportalsub.net\/en\/12-north-american-uwr-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 12th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament 2016 – Islamorada USA + Results and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The newly created Florida Keys Underwater Rugby Club, known as the Florida Keys Krakens, hosted for the first time the North American League UW Rugby tournament on its 12th<\/sup> edition. The tournament organizers Nicole and Alana came back from their participation on the 10th<\/sup>CMAS UWR World Cup in Cali Colombia with the solid idea of putting together the UW Rugby team for their club (originally an UW Hockey club) and after some discussions with other US and Canadian teams they had the go to organize the first UWR tournament in Florida.<\/p>\n

The event was an instant success due to the cold winter time since most of the NAL teams are from the East coast and Canada. The 12th<\/sup> edition has become a milestone on the North American UWR League with the record participation of 10 teams, including a team for the newly created USA-U21 program whose players were also allowed to play their respective club games.<\/p>\n

Canadian Teams:\u00a0\u00a0Liberation\/ Toronto UWR (Brantford\/Toronto, ON) \u2013 CAMO (Montreal, QB)<\/p>\n

USA teams: \u00a0Boston UWR (Quincy, MA) \u2013 New Jersey Hammerheads (Newark, NJ) \u2013\u00a0NUWR (Newark, NJ) \u2013\u00a0East Haven Makos (East Haven, CT) \u2013\u00a0Florida Keys Krakens A (Key Largo, FL) \u2013\u00a0Florida Keys Krakens B (Key Largo, FL) \u2013\u00a0San Francisco Giant Sea Bass (San Francisco, CA) \u2013\u00a0USA U-21<\/p>\n

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The teams were divided in two groups based on the ranking from the last NAL tournament. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. Group A was dominated by the reigning champion \u00a0and undefeated during the group play, \u00a0the New Jersey Hammerheads with the surprising second place of the San Francisco Giant Sea bass team who managed to win several games with only 8 players but a high level of play. Group B was dominated by the undefeated NUWR team and the second place was secured by Boston UWR.<\/p>\n

Semifinals was played by NJ Hammerheads who defeated San Francisco with a clear 5-0 score and the other semifinal was NUWR who defeated Boston on a very tight match 2-1 to access the final against NJ Hammerheads.<\/p>\n

The final was also the closest final match ever in the North American League. The regular time ended with a 1-1 tie and an extra time was played to look for the tournament champion. Near the end the NJ Hammerheads scored but the goal was not counted because a foul against the NUWR goalkeeper. At the end of the extra time series of penalties was the next step to break the tie, but they ended 2-2. With the single penalties series, the game came to an end with the last penalty shot scored by the NJ hammerheads and the last penalty shot saved by the Hammerhead Goalie. Final Score NJ hammerheads 1 (3) \u2013 1(2) NUWR.<\/p>\n