"Keep the Euphoria alive!" or "Does DOMS hate me as much as I like winning?"

We had been lucky Saturday night to find a free alternative to the freshman dorm room we were seemingly doomed to sleep in. As any gracious house guest knows, the only way to pay back our kind host was to spruce up his home with the smell of our dirty laundry and send freshmen to clog his plumbing as the veterans seek sustenance from an unattended pantry… Since we were VERY gracious guests, we were sure to abide on all counts. I’ll be sure to send “Soap” a disc for his troubles…

We kept the drinking light Saturday night, so the only hungover member of our party was Ship’s comedy man, Collins. He decided it best to stay with us at Soap’s house since he “didn’t want to be lonely while he drank,” and managed to keep us entertained most of the night.

Our arrival to the fields was met with our first 1 seed in my short history with Catholic and we were poised to take on PSU-Behrend in the first round. A crosswind remained from yesterday leaving us a little sour about the missed Friday Night Lights section of the tournament (we watched Georgetown’s women, Huckin’ Foyas, play under the lights Saturday with little to no wind leaving us with the impression that the cancelled Friday night games would’ve been more of the same.)… But hey, we played some tight zone Saturday and we looked to do it again this morning with a slightly depleted squad. After having 18 on Saturday, we were left with 11 and a 12th on his way up from D.C.

PSU-Behrend – This team played savage most of the tournament, but it was an easy savage as they didn’t manage to put up too many points, leaving them with a plethora of short games. As was the norm at Skylander, we decided to give Behrend a 4-1 lead before rubbing the sleep from our eyes and putting the disc in the endzone a few times. We settled in and took half 7-5 before going on an extended run to start the second. Bridget and Lemon made it look easy and scored 7 of our 12 points this game as Stills managed only a few to put his weekend total that much closer to 20. Sean Quinn even got on the board with an assist this game before tweaking his ankle on defense. I felt like we used this game as more of a warm-up for what we considered to be our biggest challenge of the weekend against UMBC…
12-6 Habit

UMBC – Dan arrived just in time to supplement our roster for this game(and to give Frodo a ride home). We were very surprised at the start of this game. Well, surprised that Booya could only muster 1 point to our first 10… Dan and Sonic were solid this game and relatively chilly with the disc (other than a few interesting choices by Dan), and John kept up his consistent play with a few assists as well as breaking his streak of consecutive games without a drop at 5 games. I guess he was taking notes from Metz as he watched from the sideline in the Behrend game. Highlights were when Bridge brought the pain on defense and decked one of Booya’s women while getting a nice ‘d’ on an in-cut, our handlers walking down the field against their man defense while I watched from the sidelines, and Ranjo managing to hideout on the field all game so I couldn’t sub him out. Good game, good spirit, even better result.
15-5 Habit

TCNJ – We get to take another shot at our pool play rivals. This time without 3 of our defensive stoppers and only 11 Habit players ready to play. Sean Quinn’s sprained ankle seemed to be the difference as TCNJ hit us hard with their deep attack. With a high number of larger players, they managed to come down with most 50/50 discs (that weren’t thrown my way…) and pulled ahead after we traded our way to a 3-3 tie. We just didn’t have the legs to keep up with this team as many of our guys had been playing close to savage for the day.
15-8 TCNJ

Overall a very successful tournament. 2nd Place!!! Solid play by Sonic, Stills, and John all weekend… Solid play by Arin and Kyle on Saturday. No more MVP, MIP, MCP, MWB (Most Witty Banter), due to excessive speculation… Metz’d probably win them all anyway.