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With the series poised at 1-1, Georgia Elwiss blogs ahead of England Womens crunch Championship ODIs in West Indies... Wagwan from Jamaica!After Hurricane Matthew fortunately passed the island without too great an impact, we got our training underway at the amazing Trelawny Stadium in Montego Bay. Its a wonderful facility which was purpose built for the 2007 ICC World T20 and its a pretty imposing place with large stands looking over the ground and with beautiful views over the sea. Unfortunately the close proximity to the ocean didnt quite register with one of the girls (I cant say who, shell kill me!), and after one particularly tough session, she wistfully asked if we were at altitude… FINE! The picturesque surrounds of Montego Bays Trelawney Stadium Dishing out team fines is something we enjoy doing throughout the duration of tour - basically a fines master is appointed, and they are then responsible for collating an ongoing list of embarrassing moments or daft comments for each player and member of our support staff. On the last night of tour we gather as a big group to go through them all. It helps to keep things light-hearted and maybe stop people being stupid - even the management!In good spirits and ready to go, we played a warm-up game against a Jamaica womens representative XI ahead of our first ODI, which featured some excellent contributions from Amy Jones and Danni Wyatt. Our preparation block at the National Cricket Performance Centre leading into this tour has so far proven to be spot on. All the talk back in Loughborough was about being able to play on slow, low, turning pitches and making game plans to enable us to negate the threat of spinners and how to score runs with low risk options. So far, the pitches we have played on for first two ODIs were exactly that although with 9.30am starts out here, there was a little more help for the seam bowlers early in the morning.The first ODI was perhaps one of the best games of cricket I have ever been involved in. The game ebbed and flowed, momentum shifted in the space of a few balls and true to the universal law of low-scoring games there was an exciting finish - with an exceptional spell of bowling from Katherine Brunt to give us the victory.Unfortunately, it wasnt to be in our second ODI where in another low scoring game we fancied ourselves to chase 149, especially when we were so well positioned at 90-3. However, as in the first clash, momentum changed very quickly and after a devastating spell of bowling from Deandra Dottin we found ourselves all out for 110. Deandra Dottin once again proved her pedigree, in the second ODI The local support from hotel staff and English tourists has been fantastic. We managed to nearly fill one of the large stands for the first ODI with England fans (staying in the same hotel as us for a big family wedding!) who wholeheartedly took on the vuvuzelas of the West Indian fans and created one of the best atmospheres for us to play in front of. Although there were probably only 300 people in the ground it felt like 3,000!Back at the hotel the staff have been fantastic, always so friendly even though they were supporting the West Indians. Although Im pretty sure for the first few days they were trying to slip some rum in our banana smoothies to throw us off our game!We have been caught in a few tropical storms over here resulting in some proper rain! I have been rooming with Jenny Gunn who is normally petrified of storms but I ran back to the room to check on her and she was playing photographer extraordinaire out on the balcony lapping up the slow-mo feature on her phone and filming crazy videos! She said the heat must have been getting to her! We join England Women on their tour bus as they prepare for the final three ODIs of their series against West Indies. We are off to Kingston now for the remainder of our series and for the three ODIs which also carry ICC Womens Championship points - the qualification competition for the ICC Womens World Cup in England next year. We will be looking to right the wrongs from the last ODI and put in some good performances at the iconic Sabina Park.For the first time in over 20 years, the ICC Womens World Cup is coming to England and heres your chance to see the final at Lords... 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Getzlaf scored the first two goals in the second, and Teemu Selanne scored the go-ahead goal late in the period as the Anaheim Ducks beat the Nashville Predators 4-3 Thursday night.BETHESDA, Md. -- Justin Rose has won enough times on the strongest golf courses to appreciate how one mistake can make a difference. He got away with one Sunday at Congressional to win the Quicken Loans National. Shawn Stefani did not. With the poise and the putting touch of a U.S. Open champion, Rose atoned for a 4-iron he hit into the water on the 18th hole to make a 15-foot bogey putt that got him into a playoff and gave him new life. On the 18th hole in the playoff, Stefani hit the same type of shot that rolled into the same pond left of the green. There are no second chances in a sudden-death playoff. Rose won with a par on the first extra hole for his first victory since the U.S. Open last summer at Merion. This one required about as much work, with Congressional far more difficult and unrelenting than when it hosted a soggy U.S. Open three years ago. "Congressional got its reputation back after the U.S. Open," Rose said. "I really enjoy this type of golf and this type of test. I think it tested all of us. Im delighted." The Englishman was far from delighted after thinking he had thrown this one away. Tied for the lead as he played the 18th, Rose tried to squeeze a 4-iron through a tiny gap in the trees from 209 yards away, playing toward the right side of the green for a chance at par. Instead, he turned it over and realized when he jogged toward the fairway that it was headed for the water. His caddie, Mark Fulcher, told Rose that Stefani had just made bogey behind them on the 17th. "Everything else was forgotten at that point," Rose said. "I wiped the slate clean and just focused on my putt on 18. An amazing feeling in any sort of championship when you make a putt like that. That means something. Thats special. "And then the playoff, it was just up to me to not do what I did the first time around." He left that to Stefani, who had drilled his tee shot in regulation and narrowly missed a 20-foot birdie putt for his first PGA Tour victory. In the playoff, Stefani pulled his tee shot in the trees and got relief from grandstands blocking his view of the green. He chose a 6-iron to punch it around the trees. "The grass closed the club down," Stefani said, "and it went left into the water. I was trying to play it down the right side and have a chance at a putt, two putts for a par. Thats the way it goes. It was great to have a chance to win." Both closed with a 1-under 70 and finished at 4-under 280 on a course that looked like a U.S. Open, and played like onee the way so many contenders -- seven players had at least a share of the lead at one point -- tumbled down the leaderboard.dddddddddddd Only six players broke par in the final round. And it was only the second time this year that the winning score was higher than the 36-hole lead (6 under). That also happened at Torrey Pines, which like Congressional, previously hosted a U.S. Open. No one crashed harder than Patrick Reed, who had a two-shot lead to start the final round, still had a two-shot lead at the turn and didnt even finish in the top 10. He made back-to-back double bogeys, shot 41 on the back and closed with a 77 to tie for 11th. "This definitely burns and definitely gets me more fired up for more events coming up," Reed said. Even though he got a reprieve with the clutch bogey putt, Rose looked like a U.S. Open champion the way he put himself into position. He hit 5-iron to 5 feet for one of only four birdies on the 11th hole Sunday. Staring at potential bogey from deep rough on the 14th, he boldly hit 3-wood up the hill and between the deep bunkers to the middle of the green. It was a par, but Rose called the 3-wood his "shot of the day." And before his blunder on the 18th, he holed an 8-foot sliding par putt on the 17th. "I felt like all aspects of my game were tested this week, and its really nice to win in that fashion," Rose said. Stefani, whose only major experience was at Merion last year, plodded along like a U.S. Open veteran with one par after another. He joined Rose in the lead with a 15-foot birdie putt on the 16th. So many others fell back. Brendon Todd was tied for the lead until a double bogey in the water on the 10th. Marc Leishman three-putted for bogey on No. 7 and made bogey on the easiest par 4 at Congressional. Brendan Steele made a late rally, only to take on too much from the rough on the 18th and find the water for double bogey. This was the first British Open qualifier on the PGA Tour -- the leading four players not already exempt from the top 12 at Congressional get into Royal Liverpool next month. Stefani earned one spot as the runner-up. Charley Hoffman (69) and Ben Martin (71) each birdied two of the last three holes to tie for third. Steele got the last spot with a 71 that put him in a three-way tie for third with Andres Romero and Todd, who already is exempt. Steele earned the spot over Romero because he has a higher world ranking. Romero closed with a 68, the low score in a final round when the scoring average was 73.7. ' ' '