Table of Contents Page England Lead the Way 1 Round 1: Belgium vs Norway Norway – neither fish, flesh nor fowl? 2 Austria v Russia – Girls Round 2 3

With three big wins under their belts, England lead the Junior Series on 72 VPs. They have an 11 VP lead over France on 61, then come Netherlands 60, Italy 57.5, Belgium 55 and Norway 54. The win of the day was the 25-3 Italian demolition of Sweden, while the day’s giant-killers were Czech Republic, who beat mighty Poland 18-12 in the morning match. Scotland were close to being the second giant-killers but eventually only managed a 15-15 draw with Netherlands.
In the Girls Championship, Austria lead on 58 VPs, only 1 VP ahead of Russia, who they beat 19-11 in the morning match. The Russians recovered from that setback by destroying host nation, Italy 25-1 in the afternoon. Poland are third on 54 VPs, while Netherlands, who lost their first match on Wednesday 4-25 against Austria, have pulled themselves back into contention by taking 49 VPs out of a possible 50 yesterday – the best of any team in either event.