The taste of victory!
We get to put our name on the Shirley Platter as Sectional Champs 05! Boy, we tried not to though.
Saturday was a nice day to play ultimate. 70s, a decent wind in the morning and then a lot of crosswind in the pm. 11 teams were at sectionals this year. So 2 pools, our pool had 5 and the other 6.
We start off with Surly, the TC masters team. We in 13-6, I think we were up 7-2 at half or something close. A huge hand block on Enge by John John early. Not much else to report. The O was ok, but they were broken once after a weird play. No other highlights besides the fun master's comments like "They can't run with us." And CVH *complaining* when their guys ran into our d guys... One thing that I thought was weird was the 2-3 seeds in the other pool were playing at this time. Since the top 2 advance to the semis, that made that 2-3 seed game a kind of quarterfinal game during the first round of the whole tourney. I do not think that was right.
2nd round we play Winnipeg, who used to be the 3rd best team in the section. Now, they are like the 8th. I am not sure if they lost some to co-ed or what. It is also turns out that many teams have a beef with them. Anyway, we win 12-6. No events or arguments like last year's "There's your f'in hammer". I think they finished 4th or 5th in the pool.
3rd round we play the Rejects or a mainly u of m college team. They have a bunch of new throwers. The wind really picked up and made completing a pass on the north side of the field very hard. Needless to say, they did not. 13-1.
4th round was Furious Dogs a team from Madison. They ended up finishing 3rd in the pool, but we beat them 13-1. The 1 goal was scored on me on a bomb. With the guy laughing/somewhat taunting me. Good stuff. Best part of this game was it was over at 2:30, no more games and we could go home. Luckily, T's team also had a last round bye, so it worked out perfect.
While others stayed around to watch co-ed and drink, we elected to go home and be old. Make some dinner and watch Armageddon. it was emotional.
Sunday, I wake to discover that the Madison college team was 2nd in their pool. So we play them in the semis. Obviously, there is the CUT-Madison rivalry, the Sub Zero-Madison rivalry, but now we have 6 either current or former Hodags. So that adds a little more incentive.
Well, they start out 2-0, scoring both goals on our offense. Ugh. We immediately tie it up 2-2 on a goal intended for me, but caught by RG as I got hacked. I forget how we got the turn and goal. Trade points for a while. I believe they break us once more, and we break them twice more to take half 7-6. The O was moving not so well. I did throw a big bomb to Berkseth that I liked. And a push pass to Goldstein took half. So we were on serve, no big deal. But the d oculd not going in the second half and they break the O again. So now we are trailing and the O finally solves their problem. The D, however, cannot convert. I miss Pbo on a wide open huck where I just had to throw it high and it was a goal. Also, a dump to involving myself after a turn. Ugh.... Anyway, 12-12, game to 13. No timeouts either team. We pull. We force a stall 9 huck, to. After a couple of throws a high stall huck to no one... turnover. They start moving and then, Goldstein w/ a big poach d. Knocks the wind out so we bring AB. Work it up the field. Ab to RC (2 Madison guys, incidentally) and we score. And win 13-12. Close and we did not play so well, but we win. A game, that last year, we lose. So we are making some progress. Also, credit for Madison for comingout and playing very well. They got some lucky bounces, but definitely the most aggressive team early.
It was a fun game, and even more fun since we won. Although we were missing some players in that game, we had a roster similar to chicago, so we feel we should have won by more. BUT, I guess in rivalry games you throw everything out the window. Or that is what they say at least.
So we have dingwop in the finals, a twin citesd/duluth team that won the other pool and beat the master's team in the finals. The o was kind of mad about the previous game, so I believe they were 9-9. The D started out sluggish as we took a 8-6 lead. In the 2nd half, RC gets a huge block and Brendan runs down one of their hucks. We start playing much better. And end up 15-8 or 9.
Good stuff. Sectionals Champs. We accomplished what we needed to. Now, we wait until after next weekend and see which one of the top 3 seeds we are.
Tonite, I am skipping work to go to the Beck concert. Pretty stoked about this.
We get to put our name on the Shirley Platter as Sectional Champs 05! Boy, we tried not to though.
Saturday was a nice day to play ultimate. 70s, a decent wind in the morning and then a lot of crosswind in the pm. 11 teams were at sectionals this year. So 2 pools, our pool had 5 and the other 6.
We start off with Surly, the TC masters team. We in 13-6, I think we were up 7-2 at half or something close. A huge hand block on Enge by John John early. Not much else to report. The O was ok, but they were broken once after a weird play. No other highlights besides the fun master's comments like "They can't run with us." And CVH *complaining* when their guys ran into our d guys... One thing that I thought was weird was the 2-3 seeds in the other pool were playing at this time. Since the top 2 advance to the semis, that made that 2-3 seed game a kind of quarterfinal game during the first round of the whole tourney. I do not think that was right.
2nd round we play Winnipeg, who used to be the 3rd best team in the section. Now, they are like the 8th. I am not sure if they lost some to co-ed or what. It is also turns out that many teams have a beef with them. Anyway, we win 12-6. No events or arguments like last year's "There's your f'in hammer". I think they finished 4th or 5th in the pool.
3rd round we play the Rejects or a mainly u of m college team. They have a bunch of new throwers. The wind really picked up and made completing a pass on the north side of the field very hard. Needless to say, they did not. 13-1.
4th round was Furious Dogs a team from Madison. They ended up finishing 3rd in the pool, but we beat them 13-1. The 1 goal was scored on me on a bomb. With the guy laughing/somewhat taunting me. Good stuff. Best part of this game was it was over at 2:30, no more games and we could go home. Luckily, T's team also had a last round bye, so it worked out perfect.
While others stayed around to watch co-ed and drink, we elected to go home and be old. Make some dinner and watch Armageddon. it was emotional.
Sunday, I wake to discover that the Madison college team was 2nd in their pool. So we play them in the semis. Obviously, there is the CUT-Madison rivalry, the Sub Zero-Madison rivalry, but now we have 6 either current or former Hodags. So that adds a little more incentive.
Well, they start out 2-0, scoring both goals on our offense. Ugh. We immediately tie it up 2-2 on a goal intended for me, but caught by RG as I got hacked. I forget how we got the turn and goal. Trade points for a while. I believe they break us once more, and we break them twice more to take half 7-6. The O was moving not so well. I did throw a big bomb to Berkseth that I liked. And a push pass to Goldstein took half. So we were on serve, no big deal. But the d oculd not going in the second half and they break the O again. So now we are trailing and the O finally solves their problem. The D, however, cannot convert. I miss Pbo on a wide open huck where I just had to throw it high and it was a goal. Also, a dump to involving myself after a turn. Ugh.... Anyway, 12-12, game to 13. No timeouts either team. We pull. We force a stall 9 huck, to. After a couple of throws a high stall huck to no one... turnover. They start moving and then, Goldstein w/ a big poach d. Knocks the wind out so we bring AB. Work it up the field. Ab to RC (2 Madison guys, incidentally) and we score. And win 13-12. Close and we did not play so well, but we win. A game, that last year, we lose. So we are making some progress. Also, credit for Madison for comingout and playing very well. They got some lucky bounces, but definitely the most aggressive team early.
It was a fun game, and even more fun since we won. Although we were missing some players in that game, we had a roster similar to chicago, so we feel we should have won by more. BUT, I guess in rivalry games you throw everything out the window. Or that is what they say at least.
So we have dingwop in the finals, a twin citesd/duluth team that won the other pool and beat the master's team in the finals. The o was kind of mad about the previous game, so I believe they were 9-9. The D started out sluggish as we took a 8-6 lead. In the 2nd half, RC gets a huge block and Brendan runs down one of their hucks. We start playing much better. And end up 15-8 or 9.
Good stuff. Sectionals Champs. We accomplished what we needed to. Now, we wait until after next weekend and see which one of the top 3 seeds we are.
Tonite, I am skipping work to go to the Beck concert. Pretty stoked about this.
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