TEAMS	Japan vs USA
VENUE	Central Coast Stadium
DATE	27 October 2003 10:30
COMPETITION	IRB Rugby World Cup
FINAL SCORE	26 - 39
TRIES	2 - 5
HALFTIME SCORE	10 - 20
CROWD	0

Japan Conversion Toru Kurihara 2 Penalty Toru Kurihara 4 Try Daisuke Ohata 1 Try Toru Kurihara 1

USA Conversion Mike Hercus 4 Penalty Mike Hercus 2 Try Kirk Khasigian 1 Try Kort Schubert 1 Try Mike Hercus 1 Try Phillip Eloff 1 Try Riaan Van Zyl 1

Japan 1 Shin Hasegawa 2 Masao Amino 3 Masahiko Toyoyama 4 Hajime Kiso 5 Adam Parker 6 Naoya Okubo 7 Takuro Miuchi 8 Takeomi Ito 9 Yuji Sonoda 10 Andrew Miller 11 Toru Kurihara 12 Yukio Motoki 13 George Konia 14 Daisuke Ohata 15 Tsutomu Matsuda

USA 1 Steven Leroy MacDonald 2 Kirk Khasigian 3 Dan Dorsey 4 Gerhard Klerck 5 Luke Gross 6 Kort Schubert 7 David Hodges 8 Dan Lyle 9 Kevin Dalzell 10 Mike Hercus 11 Riaan Van Zyl 12 Salesi Sika 13 Phillip Eloff 14 David Fee 15 Paul Emerick

Japan 16 Masahito Yamamoto 17 Masaaki Sakata 18 Koichi Kubo 19 Yuya Saito 20 Takashi Tsuji 21 Hideki Namba 22 Hirotoki Onozawa

USA 16 Matt Wyatt 17 Jacob Waasdorp 18 Jurie Gouws 19 Oloseti Fifita 20 Kimball Kjar 21 Jason Keyter 22 John Buchholz

Japan 25 Yuya Saito for Takuro Miuchi 58 Yuya Saito for Takeomi Ito 75 Masahito Yamamoto for Shin Hasegawa 85 Takashi Tsuji for Yuji Sonoda

USA 14 Matt Wyatt for Kirk Khasigian 45 John Buchholz for Paul Emerick 83 Kimball Kjar for Kevin Dalzell 86 Jacob Waasdorp for Dan Dorsey

7	Try	Mike Hercus	USA
8	Conversion	Mike Hercus	USA
10	Try	Phillip Eloff	USA
11	Conversion	Mike Hercus	USA
14	Substitution (Tactical)	Matt Wyatt for Kirk Khasigian	USA
16	Missed Penalty	Mike Hercus	USA
20	Try	Toru Kurihara	Japan
22	Conversion	Toru Kurihara	Japan
25	Penalty	Toru Kurihara	Japan
25	Substitution (Blood)	Yuya Saito for Takuro Miuchi	Japan
27	Penalty	Mike Hercus	USA
30	Missed Penalty	Toru Kurihara	Japan
32	Penalty	Mike Hercus	USA
45	Penalty	Toru Kurihara	Japan
45	Substitution (Tactical)	John Buchholz for Paul Emerick	USA
51	Penalty	Toru Kurihara	Japan
54	Penalty	Toru Kurihara	Japan
56	Try	Kort Schubert	USA
58	Conversion	Mike Hercus	USA
58	Substitution (Tactical)	Yuya Saito for Takeomi Ito	Japan
60	Try	Daisuke Ohata	Japan
61	Conversion	Toru Kurihara	Japan
71	Missed Penalty	Andrew Miller	Japan
75	Substitution (Tactical)	Masahito Yamamoto for Shin Hasegawa	Japan
80	Try	Riaan Van Zyl	USA
81	Conversion	Mike Hercus	USA
83	Substitution (Tactical)	Kimball Kjar for Kevin Dalzell	USA
85	Substitution (Tactical)	Takashi Tsuji for Yuji Sonoda	Japan
86	Substitution (Tactical)	Jacob Waasdorp for Dan Dorsey	USA
87	Try	Kirk Khasigian	USA
89	Missed Conversion	Mike Hercus	USA