Nothing much to report here - game 2 was against "Blue Goo," a team captained by Tim, a good player/handler type and all around nice guy (even if he occasionally inspires 'why so serious?" type questions). Wade was out of town for this one, and players Teri, Amber and Justin were in town. Sweetness. We dragged out the ho-stack for this game, and after sputtering for the first couple of points, we worked it quite well. Traded a little bit at the beginning and let them get behind us just a little too much; started out 3-3, and then they ran off a bunch in a row to make it 7-3. Shades of last week, uh-oh.
Not so much - we really turned on the D, got a tad more careful with throws, got our stuff together and ran off 5 straight to take half. YEAH. And then traded a little bit after the new half started, found ourselves down 10-9, but ran off another 5 in a row to seal the game. 14-10 victory for the good guys, and people were much happier this week than last.
Justin is a dynamo, and Pat had a much bigger impact this week than last. Paul played great, Josiah played great, Ned played great - just an all around great performance by the menfolk. G and Teri were cutting / D-ing like mad women, and Alex and Brenda burned around the field quite a bit, too. Really, the key to this game was a shutdown D that slowly revealed itself - that, and the other team had approximately 2.4 people with the endurance necessary to hang with our squad aplenty.
Personally played pretty well - one bad turnover, a miscommunicated scoober to Justin that fell achingly short after he realized that it had gone up to the corner away from where he was cutting. Otherwise hit Genvieve a pair of times for goals, hit Teri a couple of times deep deep for goals, hit Pat numerous times deep (though not all for scores) and time on an endzone play, and caught three goals I can remember (deep, short layout, deep). No Ds, though I think i actually played reasonable D - actually had a nice clean poach D that got imho erroneously foul-called, what can you do. So we'll call that a 7/3/1/0, bringing me to 11/4/4/4 for two games. Me, me, me, I know.
All in all a good team effort. Things got a little testy at the end - chippy foul calls, highlighted by a sick layout bid by Justin that the guy called a foul on and then pointed at a spot on his off arm where J had brushed him. Pretty ticky tacky, but 10-10 late in the game can do that, I suppose. We actually kept things relatively civil, even when a certain little person screamed (cursed, actually) at me for trying to clarify call on the field - a guy had turned to dump, faked his throw, let go of the disc and caught it again; i.e. he caught his own throw, auto-turnover. So yay me for being civil.
Nicole, Big Nate and Bill stuck around to heckle us after their laugher of a game - sheesh, they were practically done before our halftime. Yikes. But they kept things lively, and got extra funny when the game got tense at the end. Fun times.
Okay, I'm sure I've lost ALL of my readers with this lame recap - suffice it: played generally better, starting to gel, hopefully we will continue to build on this. Good stuff.
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