The Royal WEfnuk: Week III

Short and sweet: we gotta lot of short field turnovers from these guys and took pretty good case of the disc en route to a rout, taking half 8-0 and waltzing our way to a 15-3 win over the infinitely cleverly named "Swinging Huckers" (including stalwarts like Nappi, 6'9" Dustin, and Byron). Ho-stack worked extremely well. We only had two women (Gen and Teri, and Teri was sick!), but they ran all over our opponent's women - Teri must have caught 8 or 9 goals, actually, and Gen caught a few as well. Crazy.

I personally played just fine, throwing 6 goals, scoring none (yikes!), getting five (!) Ds and turning over two reasonable-shot hucks. So 17/4/6/9 (thr/sc/tur/d) on the season so far, not shabby.

The game was unfortunately marred a bit by the usual bitch-fest that occurs when one team is up by ten goals. I had an exceptionally clean poach D on Byron - I intercepted the disc a good two steps before he even got there - and he reached out for the disc which was already in my hand, slapped *the disc* and called a foul. I rightfully gave him the "you've gotta be kidding me" line, and he acquiesced, but qualified it with "you guys have been calling every little thing." I think there may have been three calls total in the first half of the game, so I didn't know what he was talking about, but I said "Okay, we'll try not to make ticky tacky calls." Of course, having been framed by Byron's odd account of the first half, every call after that point was suspect - and yes, some of them were by our team and were ticky tacky, but sheesh, it became an excuse-away for the other team. "We're only losing because of their bad calls." Sure, fine. So the whole thing turned sour, as blowouts often do, but I really feel in this case it was prefaced by Byron creating a situation with a wickedly bogus call and then accusing us of something that I'm pretty sure really hadn't occurred up to that point. Great, really awesome, and the whole thing just got colored stupidly. Thanks homes.

So not the most fun game ever, but we certainly played well. Tune in next week when we take on Wii Huck, aka Tricky's team. Note that this will be a WE/Wii battle. Until then...