Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Sunday: Gust of the Irish
As in wind, as in it was vicious. We were lucky to win all three flips on the day, but it turned out we didn't need to!
1st game against Air Force wasn't near the beating we took last year to this team. We had all the throws, made the big plays, and held Air Force to down-wind scores to manage a 10-5 win. I think we started on serve and broke upwind twice to cruise to our next game against Pitt-Johnstown. Big plays were Billy's huge layout 'd' to halt an upwind AFU scoring attempt and great work by our cup to keep them contained on defense.
Pitt-Johnstown just came off a big win against Rutgers (who beat us 11-10 on Universe at UDel's SHOWdown), so we weren't exactly sure what to expect here. They came out firing with hucks upwind while the wind was faltering, but didn't manage to connect on any. We were flawless downwind again and sprinted to an early lead in the first half 8-3. The second half was much of the same... The one point that really sticks out in my mind is when I finally took a chance to sit down. Jared started with the disc going upwind and P-J had gone to a man defense for some reason. We proved that we were ready to run with them and worked it quickly and methodically downfield through Jim, Jared, and Pete's handles and quick slashes by Still's and Lemon. I think the best part of that sequence was the give 'n' go tosses by those guys. They attacked on in cuts and flipped the disc back to a cutting handler just as quickly as they'd received it. Overall we had great disc movement in this game when the wind allowed. We settled for a 15-6 win.
After a bit of a break, Vermont strolled over to meet us in the final. This team was huge compared to ours. They had somewhere close to 30 guys which is just intimidating in itself. Our 14 played on unphased, although after the game we heard a few "wow, I really thought those guys were going to crush us" comments from some of the younger guys. Using the sidelines effectively was definitely one of their strong points. All day I heard "90, 45, 25, 90!" from the bench players, telling their mark where best to trap our handles. We still managed to break upwind a few times in this game and held them to just one. Their zone offense was led by a bunch of quick guys with decent throws and fast swings. That's obviously how to run a good zone 'o', but these guys did it much better than we did, I thought. After the cap was blown, we pulled to a 10-5 victory and they pulled out on their way to High Tide in Savannah, GA. An ok way to end our Spring Break, and a pretty good way to begin theirs.
1st game against Air Force wasn't near the beating we took last year to this team. We had all the throws, made the big plays, and held Air Force to down-wind scores to manage a 10-5 win. I think we started on serve and broke upwind twice to cruise to our next game against Pitt-Johnstown. Big plays were Billy's huge layout 'd' to halt an upwind AFU scoring attempt and great work by our cup to keep them contained on defense.
Pitt-Johnstown just came off a big win against Rutgers (who beat us 11-10 on Universe at UDel's SHOWdown), so we weren't exactly sure what to expect here. They came out firing with hucks upwind while the wind was faltering, but didn't manage to connect on any. We were flawless downwind again and sprinted to an early lead in the first half 8-3. The second half was much of the same... The one point that really sticks out in my mind is when I finally took a chance to sit down. Jared started with the disc going upwind and P-J had gone to a man defense for some reason. We proved that we were ready to run with them and worked it quickly and methodically downfield through Jim, Jared, and Pete's handles and quick slashes by Still's and Lemon. I think the best part of that sequence was the give 'n' go tosses by those guys. They attacked on in cuts and flipped the disc back to a cutting handler just as quickly as they'd received it. Overall we had great disc movement in this game when the wind allowed. We settled for a 15-6 win.
After a bit of a break, Vermont strolled over to meet us in the final. This team was huge compared to ours. They had somewhere close to 30 guys which is just intimidating in itself. Our 14 played on unphased, although after the game we heard a few "wow, I really thought those guys were going to crush us" comments from some of the younger guys. Using the sidelines effectively was definitely one of their strong points. All day I heard "90, 45, 25, 90!" from the bench players, telling their mark where best to trap our handles. We still managed to break upwind a few times in this game and held them to just one. Their zone offense was led by a bunch of quick guys with decent throws and fast swings. That's obviously how to run a good zone 'o', but these guys did it much better than we did, I thought. After the cap was blown, we pulled to a 10-5 victory and they pulled out on their way to High Tide in Savannah, GA. An ok way to end our Spring Break, and a pretty good way to begin theirs.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sat: Suck of the Irish
After a series of concerned emails and phone calls, Bad Habit braved the weather to drive the 2.5 hours to Salisbury, MD... We were actually pretty pumped about the late start (leaving at 10am rather than 5:45am) and were looking to capitalize on the abbreviated rounds of pool play (70 min instead of 90min) due to our lack of depth here...
We did finally manage to get vans for the weekend, so we felt the full effect of the 30-40 mph winds while crossing the Bay Bridge in the midst of a fog that was dense enough to hide the vast body of water below us. I will say the winds were much worse on the way back while Pete was driving my van...
After an hour and half of driving rain I decided to call the TD to check on the cancellation of the tourney. A surprised TD answered and went on to mention the lack of precipitation in Salisbury. We're 45 minutes out here and it's pouring, but we keep driving... 30 minutes out and it's still pouting...15 minutes. Pouring. We arrive and it's still coming, but not quite as hard as on the road. The weather is nice however, and the winds aren't too bad as we roll around the fields. We had a first round bye so we were prepared to get warmed up and get a little wet. Right as wel parked the van, every team on the field began to walk back towards their cars. The tourney was called for the day just as we finished our drive. Stupid. We got with the TD and learned we would play under the assumption of our original "assumed" seed on Sunday with bracket play.
Exciting, huh? 2.5 hours back home now.... Of course, we're hungry so we stop at some Mexican place and have a nice big meal to load up for Sunday. Sugar packet roulette was clutch in all eyes but Bridget's, and the Dos Equis was nice even at noon...
We had some drinks, Apples to Apples, Mario, and some sleep in store before an early (note daylight savings!) start next morning at 5:45am...
We did finally manage to get vans for the weekend, so we felt the full effect of the 30-40 mph winds while crossing the Bay Bridge in the midst of a fog that was dense enough to hide the vast body of water below us. I will say the winds were much worse on the way back while Pete was driving my van...
After an hour and half of driving rain I decided to call the TD to check on the cancellation of the tourney. A surprised TD answered and went on to mention the lack of precipitation in Salisbury. We're 45 minutes out here and it's pouring, but we keep driving... 30 minutes out and it's still pouting...15 minutes. Pouring. We arrive and it's still coming, but not quite as hard as on the road. The weather is nice however, and the winds aren't too bad as we roll around the fields. We had a first round bye so we were prepared to get warmed up and get a little wet. Right as wel parked the van, every team on the field began to walk back towards their cars. The tourney was called for the day just as we finished our drive. Stupid. We got with the TD and learned we would play under the assumption of our original "assumed" seed on Sunday with bracket play.
Exciting, huh? 2.5 hours back home now.... Of course, we're hungry so we stop at some Mexican place and have a nice big meal to load up for Sunday. Sugar packet roulette was clutch in all eyes but Bridget's, and the Dos Equis was nice even at noon...
We had some drinks, Apples to Apples, Mario, and some sleep in store before an early (note daylight savings!) start next morning at 5:45am...
Monday, March 3, 2008
Newsletter's Up!
http://studentorg.cua.edu/ultimate//Mid_Feb_BH_Newsletter[1].pdf
I've been working on puting this up for a while now and I finally did it! Hopefully I can better stay on top of things for March.
Sorry for no update on Cupid's Revenge yet, but here it is:
We won the tournament! After playing 104 points on Saturday with a big let-down in the final game vs. Maryland B, we came back to beat Johns Hopkins 15-8 in our final pool game and Towson 15-14 in the final. We had capped the game at 15 and Towson had called universe point as they pulled to us. The pull went out-of-bounds and we had a built-in set play for every ob pull on the weekend. Jared picks up, Pete sets up as the reset, and I'm the fill at the front of the stack. Jared throws the break IO to me and I turn and put a backhand in the corner of the endzone. A few of the defenses this weekend had sealed well on the backhand huck, but Towson was a little slow to break on it and I floated the disc out in front of Buatti for the score. I think 7 seconds and 2 throws to clear the field.
Pretty sure this is the first ever tournament victory for the Habit. Congrats guys!!! Write-up from the weekend will be found in the March edition of the newsletter.
I've been working on puting this up for a while now and I finally did it! Hopefully I can better stay on top of things for March.
Sorry for no update on Cupid's Revenge yet, but here it is:
We won the tournament! After playing 104 points on Saturday with a big let-down in the final game vs. Maryland B, we came back to beat Johns Hopkins 15-8 in our final pool game and Towson 15-14 in the final. We had capped the game at 15 and Towson had called universe point as they pulled to us. The pull went out-of-bounds and we had a built-in set play for every ob pull on the weekend. Jared picks up, Pete sets up as the reset, and I'm the fill at the front of the stack. Jared throws the break IO to me and I turn and put a backhand in the corner of the endzone. A few of the defenses this weekend had sealed well on the backhand huck, but Towson was a little slow to break on it and I floated the disc out in front of Buatti for the score. I think 7 seconds and 2 throws to clear the field.
Pretty sure this is the first ever tournament victory for the Habit. Congrats guys!!! Write-up from the weekend will be found in the March edition of the newsletter.
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