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Poor Fabrice Von Bockrijcke. The Belgian had the last touch of the 2016 Junior Hockey World Cup. His drag flick was perhaps the most inconsequential of the tournament too. 2-0 the scorecard read on the two electronic screens on either end of the pitch at the Dhyan Chand Stadium in Lucknow.The 20,000 spectators who had crammed standing into the arena built to hold far less were already shieking. The members of the Indian team who didnt have to put on the plastic face guards were already linking arms. A large tricolour had already been procured. The team had probably brought their own, though they could have had their pick from the hundred being waved furiously in the stands.The tall Belgian shot high into the net. 2-1 the giant screen now read. Near the halfway line, Armaan Qureshi sank to his knees and pressed his sweaty forehead on to the plastic grass. Fifteen years after an Indian team had won the junior hockey World Cup, another set of youngsters had replicated the feat.Here are a few takeaways from Sunday nights performance:Moving upThe 2001 team included Arjun Halappa, Viren Rasquinha, Gagan Ajit Singh and Jugraj Singh, who would graduate to become fixtures in the senior team. Who is to say Armaan, Parvinder Singh, captain Harjeet Singh and Harmanpreet Singh wont go on to do the same as they held the big gold trophy - now a bit jaded with age -- and jumped ecstatically to exploding fireworks. Harjeet surely believes it. This isnt the end for this team. We are going to be winning a lot more in the future too, he said afterwards.Improved fitness, steady growthIn hindsight, it might be said that anything less than gold would have been an underperformance by this team. Roughly this same group had been together for the past two and a half years. I told them back then that they would win the world cup gold, coach Harendra Singh said. Progress was constant. They had returned with a silver at the 2015 Sultan of Johor tournament and won gold earlier this year at the Four Nations tournament by beating Germany (who would be bronze medalists at the Junior World Cup).They had ironed out the kinks that had bedeviled teams of the past. Under trainer, and now high performance director David John, the team was scarcely recognizable from the lot who would struggle to last the duration of the contest. You got a clue of the strictness of their regime from goalkeeper Krishan Pathaks answer to how they would celebrate the win.We are going to eat a lot. We havent eaten for two years! That improved fitness saw them running nine kilometers or more in Lucknow. Not sedate jogs mind you. These kilometers were hard sprints that saw them pressing hard in both the semifinals against Australia and the finals against Belgium, ready to counter. Opponents were worn down by the sheer relentlessness of it.Belgium crowded out Belgium, who had been so methodical in their structure throughout the tournament, were undone in a manner the scoreline does very little to represent. Perhaps a word for the crowd here too. If the Belgians seemingly hit a wall, it was one of sound. The chaos didnt help up but we pride ourselves on our ability to handle chaos. Our boys didnt handle the crowd too well at the start, said the Belgian coach Jeroen Baart.It was very difficult to communicate. We were indicating with our arms which press we were going to play, our strikers were whistling to be heard, exclaimed captain Victor Wegnez. The noise evoked a feeling of dread - think the theme music of Jaws. Everytime we heard the crowd cheering, we knew India were on the attack, Wegnez remarked.Perfect hockeyThe crowd was cheering almost throughout the first half. The usually grim-faced chief coach, Roelant Oltmans, would grin and say it was the closest he had seen to perfect hockey. The high press early on earned two penalty corners both unconverted - if there is one quibble from this tournament, that has to be it. The Belgians tried to flood the Indians in their half and the latter found paths through it. They found ways over it too.Varun Kumar, simply lofted the ball over the heads of a suddenly wobbly defence. Gurjant Singh collected, turned and reverse flicked off a near zero angle. Even Belgiums Loic van Doren - the goalkeeper of the tournament - was helpless. Two other near chances were obtained but Nilkanta Sharma shot wide from point blank and both Mandeep Singh and Parvinder failed to get a deflection into an open goalmouth.Even as Belgium tried to recover, Simranjeet Singh stole a ball, then received it back and reverse hit it low to van Dorens right. The attack was flowing-the ball being smoothly passed around from one stick to another at a high tempo with minimal dribbling. There was a period of play nearly two minutes long beginning at around the 27th minute of the match when the ball didnt make contact with a single stick in the hands of a red shirted player.Road for the futureIndia took their foot off the pedal in the second half, but it almost never seemed Belgium had a chance to get back in the game. The referee too seemed to get caught up in how one sided it was - twice failing in quick succession to see a rare Belgian run catch the foot of two Indian defenders. It probably wouldnt have made much difference.And as coach Harendra Singh said - the last time we won it was with six goals. This time it was with two. But the trophy we won is the same. Its hard to say what the victory will mean for Indian hockey. A junior World Cup doesnt necessarily carry over to senior success.While the junior team of 2001 transferred almost en masse to the seniors, they never enjoyed anywhere near the same success. The road ahead for the batch of 2016 is a long one. Harjeet says this team will be looking to make squads for the 2018 Commonwealth and Asian Games and perhaps even the 2020 Olympics. And at least the Junior World Cup is a good starting point. Thats certainly what his teammate Simranjeet believes. The whole world knows that Indian hockey is on the right track, he said. Jarvis Landry Jersey . The team also announced Tuesday that the Braves will wear a commemorative patch on the right sleeve during the season. The patch, shaped like home plate, carries the number 715, Aarons autograph and a "40th Anniversary" banner. Bernie Kosar Youth Jersey . 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LOS ANGELES -- Although the Buffalo Bills three-game winning streak is equal parts exciting and improbable, LeSean McCoy sees ways it can get even better.McCoy shredded the Los Angeles Rams defense for 8.3 yards per carry on the way to 150 yards rushing in the Bills 30-19 victory Sunday -- and he still wasnt impressed.There were some plays I missed today, McCoy said. I could have easily had over 200 yards.Thats a bold statement against a defensive team as good as the Rams (3-2), who were missing three injured starters on their vaunted defensive line. But after the Bills (3-2) turned an 0-2 start into an above-.500 record with three impressive victories, they could be excused for feeling good about themselves.Its just a gratifying moment, and we know weve got a ton of work in front of us, Bills coach Rex Ryan said.The Bills handled their first game in the Coliseum since 1992 rather comfortably, thanks to an opportunistic defense that forced three turnovers and a grinding offense that managed only 305 yards but found holes in the Rams solid scheme.Tyrod Taylor threw two touchdown passes, scrambling to find newcomer Justin Hunter in the first quarter and finding Marquise Goodwin in the fourth after Nickell Robey-Colemans second interception.Robey-Coleman returned his first interception 41 yards for the tiebreaking touchdown in the third quarter, punctuating the Buffalo defenses effort against Los Angeles inconsistent offense.Case Keenum passed for 271 yards, while Todd Gurley scored the Rams first home touchdown of the season while rushing for 72 yards. Los Angeles couldnt build on its three-game winning streak with back-to-back road games in Detroit and London coming up.Weve got to score in that red zone, said Tavon Austin, who had seven catches for 59 yards while rushing for 26 more. We keep getting down there, but not scoring in the red zone. Three points is good, but three points is not going to win too many big games.Here are some other takeaways from the game:LOUSY FAKE: Trailing 23-19 and desperate for a late-game spark, the Rams faked a punt from their own 23 with 3:47 to play. The Bills sniffed it out perfectly, tackling Bradley Marquez 3 yards short of the first dowwn.ddddddddddddThanks to a 24-yard run by McCoy and a TD pass by Taylor, Buffalo essentially put the game out of reach moments later. Ryan credited the decisive play to the Bills special teams coaching staff, saying Danny Crossman, Eric Smith and Kathryn Smith were preparing special teams for that exact play, so we were ready for it.DEFENSIVE BLOWS: The Rams began the game without starting defensive linemen Robert Quinn, William Hayes and Michael Brockers, allowing the Bills to gang up on star lineman Aaron Donald in their blocking. Theyre all willing, but were looking at the long haul right now, coach Jeff Fisher said. And they wouldnt have been productive. In the fourth quarter, Los Angeles lost standout cornerback Trumaine Johnson to a right ankle injury that had him on crutches after the game. If Johnson or the linemen remain out for a prolonged stretch, the Rams greatest strength will be compromised. Fisher expects to know more about Johnsons injury Monday.GRINDING HALT: Gurley scored a touchdown and had his second-biggest rushing game of the season with 72 yards, including a 16-yard run and a 12-yard run. But the standout second-year pro still has only 288 yards in five games. He also fumbled twice, losing one. The Rams still cant get their most dangerous offensive player going.HOMECOMING GAME: Robey-Coleman was named a Bills captain for the game along with Reggie Bush, Robert Woods and Kevon Seymour. The reason? Theyre all USC Trojans returning to their home stadium. We could have let distractions get to us, Robey-Coleman said. We came out here with a mindset to get a victory and thats what happened.BIG SACK: Buffalo linebacker Lorenzo Alexander had two sacks, putting him into the NFL lead in the category. Hes the first Bills player to get part of a sack in five consecutive games since Mario Williams in 2013. Alexander was more excited about the Bills takeaways. Thats what we pride ourselves on defense, he said. Our core principle is to take the ball away and score on defense.---AP NFL websites: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '