Painful to watch and probably more painful to be a part of, Bermuda crashed to their second defeat in two days and it is likely to get worse before it gets better.

Having conceded 17 goals over the weekend, 10 against Canada on Saturday, and seven against Trinidad and Tobago yesterday afternoon, Bermuda must face the might of Argentina on Wednesday and goodness knows what the score will be then.

It might seem that Bermuda are being embarrassed in this tournament, but nothing could be further from the truth. In both games over the weekend they gave their all, they did the best they could, and nobody can ask for more.

There is no dishonour in not being good enough, it is a fact of life, some teams are just better than others.

You can give your all, run till you can't run any more and still come up short. It is the nature of sport, there are winners and there are losers, and right now Bermuda are losing.

That is not to say that this side is a completely hopeless case, in both games they have shown flashes of competitiveness, moments when they haven't looked out of place. But they have also made consistent mistakes for which they have been punished, and worryingly do not seem to have learnt from.

Against Trinidad they started brightly, and may well have taken the lead had they taken their chance from an early short corner. They didn't, and then had to see off wave after wave of Trinidad attacks.

There is no doubting the fight in the Bermuda side, they survived seven short corners before finally giving way to let Stacey Suri Butt score. Even then they were only two-nil down at half time, with Blair Wynne scoring from yet another short corner.

It all went a bit wrong after the break however, as Bermuda tired from the constant pressure of defending Trinidad made them pay.

Butt grabbed a second before Nicole Aming grabbed a hat-trick, all from exactly the same short corner routine, there was even time between her second and third for Tonia-Marie James to get in on the act.

"I'm a little bit upset obviously," said coach Gareth Tavares. "It's tough to swallow, but I'm proud of the girls. The first half we went out there we were playing some really good competitive hockey.

"We were matching them, we got the first short corner, the first shots on goal, we were penetrating the circle extremely well.

"In the second half we let in three short corners all exactly the same, and that to me says that there is no learning curve, there is no discussion at the back as to what to do.

"We got tired, and I think maybe I let a few players play longer than I should of, but I needed those experienced players out there.

"I think they were exposed by running 60 or 70 minutes of international hockey, I'm not going to criticise them for getting tired in that situation.

"I don't think we can be too hard on ourselves."

And while being realistic about his side's deificiencies, that isn't to say some of the errors that Bermuda are making aren't starting to get to their coach.

"They (the opposition) are just that much faster than we are," Tavares said. "They get to break downs quicker, so 50-50 balls become 60-40 balls to them.

"Against Canada we showed we can play hockey and compete with the best. Ten-nil definitely wasn't a reflection of the way the game went, but I think we still let in soft goals.

"But we've got to pick our heads up for the next game against Argentina. They are a top-class side, we are going to go out there and just see if we can enjoy it and have some fun."

Bermuda: F Doe (GK), J Bielby (GK), K Masters, E Frith, L Hartley, K Graham, H Ellison, M Ford, J McClure, M Durrant, M Troake, R Bardgett, J Smith, S Samuels, C DaCosta.

Trinidad & Tobago: A Netto (GK), M Nicholson, B Wynne, A Du Quesney, TN James, C Williams, S Butt, N Aming, K Layne, T Lezema, O Trotman, S Liburd, P Borneo, K Wynn, G Cupid.

Umpires: A Castellanos (Mexico), I Presenqui (Argentina