Day 5 - Making Progress

Again we awake at 9:00 for breakfast. Spirits were much higher after scoring four goals. A couple players and Tim had gotten a cold an fever, so that was new.

Dr. Gao wanted to give Tim some Chinese medicine. Tim had found out in the past that he is allergic to Camomile, so he was leary. After some time on the internet with my Chinese language, we found that the flower in the Medicine was not the same. So, Tim was hooked up to an IV with the liquid. There were three separate bottles that had to drip into him. This happened over the course of about 3 hours. Afterward, his fever was gone and this evening he seems to feel much better.

I took another trip to the convenience store for some water. Again the younger lady was working along with her kid and dog.


But the big news was the game against the top team in the tournament so far, undefeated Jia Mu Si. We again used our new offensive style of play and threw them off much more than we had Harbin the night before. After 1 period, we were trailing 1-0. In the second it was more of the same. With about 5 minutes remaining in the second, we got our first powerplay. Zhang Ben tipped a nice shot by Qi Xueting by the goalie to tie the score at 1-1 and it would remain that way at intermission. In the third we seemed to run out of energy, but still held on to lose only 4-1, an excellent result against a strong men’s team. Our goalie, Shi Yao, played very well even stopping a penalty shot late in the third.

Tomorrow we have an early 2:00 p.m game time against QiQiHar. On Saturday morning we return to Harbin. Good night again from Jia Mu Si.