It was a silver lining for Canada at the IFAF women鈥檚 world tackle football championships.

Despite being the first team to score on the United States at the six-team, three-day championships last week at 91原创鈥檚 McLeod Athletic Park, the Canadians came up short, falling 41-16 in the gold-medal game on Friday (June 30).

Canada took an early lead, 3-0, on Carly Dyck鈥檚 37-yard field goal.

But the U.S. responded with a pair of touchdown catches from Jeannette Gray to close the quarter.

The first was a eight-yard pass form quarterback Sami Grisafe while the other was a 71-yard bomb from receiver Angela Barker.

Odessa Jenkins scored from one-yard out in the second quarter to make it 21-3 before Canada gained some momentum with a 39-yard touchdown pass late in the first half from quarterback Aimee Kowalski to her sister Alex to make the score 21-9 at the half.

The U.S. made it 27-9 on an 11-yard touchdown run from Lisa Horton before Canada鈥檚 Rebekah Heninger scored on a 67-yard fumble return early in the fourth quarter to make it 27-16.

But Alexis Snyder (15 yards) and Hannah DeGaffinred (eight yards) each scored rushing touchdowns to round out the win.

鈥�(The U.S.) are a very balanced team so depending on what kind of situations we鈥檙e in defensively, they can run the ball and they can throw the ball,鈥� said Canadian coach Jeff Yausie.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 the sign of a good team and a well-coached team 鈥� they took what we were giving them.鈥�

鈥淐anada did a good job 鈥� they jumped on us when we made mistakes and that happened multiple times,鈥� said U.S. coach Jim Farrell.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e a good team and every time we were undisciplined or we got out of our alignment assignment football, they took advantage of it.

鈥淐anada is on the rise and they鈥檙e a great program and very well coached. Their players gave us all we could handle.鈥�