Canada 72 Namibia 11

Winless Canada, determined to go home with at least one win, ended their Group C campaign with a 72-11 thrashing of Namibia -- a personal triumph for fly-half Gareth Rees who ended his fourth World Cup with a 100 percent record in kicks at goal and 49 points.

While Rees and his side, whose aspirations to make the quarter-final play-offs nosedived with Wales' defeat by Samoa earlier on Thursday, could feel proud of their display, in which they ran in nine tries.  The one sour note was the sending off of flanker Danny Baugh for stamping early in the second-half.

The Africans, who themselves were fortunate to end with a full complement of players after Arthur Samuelson's deliberate high tackle led to hooker Mark Cardinal having to go off, reacted to Baugh's dirty play by scoring a try through captain Quinn Hough, his 10th try in 73 appearances.

The Canadians, who made the quarter-finals in 1991, dampened down any hopes of a Namibian comeback by running in another try as a terrible foul-up in the Africans defence led to Kyle Nicholls running in his second touch down.

However, it was replacement fullback Bobby Ross who scored their best try, finishing off a seven man move with a spectacular catch from Winston Stanley's flicked-on pass -- Stanley added another minutes later and Rod Snow got his second of the evening on fulltime with Stanley running in a final one in injury-time.

Namibia's player of the tournament Leandre van Dyk had opened the score with a third minute penalty but Canada hit back as their find of the competition, scrum-half Morgan Williams, burrowed over from five metres out for his third try in the group stage.

The Africans self-destructed two minutes later as fullback Glovin van Wyk's pass was intercepted by centre Kyle Nicholls who raced away to touch down under the posts.

The 32-year-old Rees, playing probably his swansong match in the World Cup, and van Dyk exchanged penalties before Canadian veteran Al Charron beat two tackles to get their third try and his seventh in 54 appearances for his country.

The teams:

Canada:  1 Rod Snow, 2 Mark Cardinal, 3 John Thiel, 4 Mike James, 5 John Tait, 6 Dan Baugh, 7 John Hutchinson, 8 Alan Charron, 9 Morgan Williams, 10 Gareth Rees, 11 Joe Pagano, 12 Dave Lougheed, 13 Kyle Nichols, 14 Winston Stanley, 15 Scott Stewart
Reserves:  Ryan Banks, Scott Bryan, Pat Dunkley, John Graf, Duane Major, Bobby Ross, Mike Schmid

Namibia:  1 Joodt Opperman, 2 Hugo Horn, 3 Eben Smith, 4 Heino Senekal, 5 Pieter Steyn, 6 Quinn Hough (c), 7 Thys Van Rooyen, 8 Sean Furter, 9 Riaan Jantjies, 10 Johan Zaayman, 11 Attie Samuelson, 12 Schalk Van Der Merwe, 13 Francois Van Rensburg, 14 Lean Van Dyk, 15 Glovin Van Wyk
Reserves:  Andries Blaauw, Herman Lintvelt, Johannes Theron
Unused:  Dirk Farmer, 1FI1, Lukas Holtzhausen, Ronaldo Pedro

Attendance:  28000
Referee:  Cole a

Points Scorers:

Canada
Tries:  Charron A.J. 1, Nichols K. 2, Ross R.P. 1, Snow R.G.A. 2, Stanley W.U. 2, Williams M. 1
Conv:  Rees G.L. 9
Pen K.:  Rees G.L. 3

Namibia
Tries:  Hough Q. 1
Pen K.:  Van Dyk L. 2