This was a rather exciting game, though, as not only were the iPJ, the iPMM, Meghan and Greg (and Zorro) in town (all photos taken by Greg, btw):
But Brother Aaron and his buddy John were rolling through town for a one-night stay as well (and posed for a quite excellent picture, yah?):
So quite the slew of spectators for this Wednesday night massacre, and the Zorro put on a show that did not disappoint. Per usual, I should have written up this game immediately afterwards so the details would be fresh in mind, but honestly, nothing terribly thrilling went down. We had an inordinate number of short fields to work with, and a crazy number of one and two pass scores, mixed with points where we were borderline incompetent on O, and we generally played decent D against a horribly struggling team. In fact, this one might be begging for a bullet account. Highlights (that I can remember at this point several days later):- Someone sent a disc deep to Jack's guy, and I poached off my man to blow by them both to get the D right by the iPBench. Pretty exciting, and apparently I still have a little gas in the tank.
- Allyson had another huge, fly by her girl D - no layout this time because no need, she just smoked her. Fun to see a young player gettin gbetter and better each time out.
- Genevieve caught three goals in her return to the field, and one of them was a captain-to-captain - she cut deep for the right back corner, and we had a psychic moment as she cut back hard to the left side of the endzone right as I released the backhand huck to the back left corner. Easy score, and just a really nice play - fun to play with people you know very well.
- Very early on, Jeremy tried to hit someone cutting to the front right corner and floated it over everyone. I came screaming in and, thinking there was an opponent there to D it, went flying big layout, pure horizontal for the score. Tres exciting, though in retrospect it may have been gratuitous. Anything for the fans.
- Funniest point - on one of the few occasions they pulled to us, Jack caught the disc, centered it to me, and then just took off yelling, "How far can you throw it?" Um, the length of the field? I shot a big forehand to the endzone and Jack ran it down for the easy score. This was one of three times that I hit Jack deep for scores on the first or second throw of the possession; fun to be on the field at the same time as him consistently in this game.
- Annoyingest - Caught a pass by the right sideline with Beck WIDE FRIGGIN' OPEN in the endzone, and just as I was about to flip it to her for the score and the in front of her parents glory, Jeremy perpendicular cuts in front of her and everybody and wrecks the flow. Bah. Extra bad, as because of all the one pass scores, we did not do the world's best job of distributing the disc in this game. Need to correct that soon.
- Our offense was still sketchy at times - we got a lot better in the second half (aided by some short fields due to a crushing zone we threw), but there was still more headless chicken O than I care for. On one point in particular, after about the fourth time that we had gotten it within ten yards of the endzone only to turn it over, I called timeout and gave a nice little "Um, guys, it's kinda frustrating that your captains keep saying to run the endzone O and no one's doing it" speech. So we set up, ran the endzone, and voila, easy goal to Jeremy, who quipped, "It's a lot easier when I listen." Indeed. :)
- Generally played great D as a team all night, though it was evident within 3 points that Gratuitous had given up. Paul, Beck, Salina, Jack, Genevieve, everyone did a great job in both man and zone Ds. We ended up using the games-to-three mantra, and won them all: 3-0, 3-1, 3-2, 3-0, 3-0. Like I said, not much of a contest, and I feel pretty bad for that team as they are probably in for a season long beatdown.
- One play just because I have a pic to go with it - I caught the disc from Craig on the sideline, threw a big hammer fake and my mark turned around to look for the disc... that was still in my hand. Broke the "mark" easily to Nat, and my defender turned back around to set up his mark as he had realized that the hammer had not gone up - only I had just taken off downfield. Nat hucked it, easy score, and that's pretty much how the night went. Here's the aftermath of a jogging two handed catch for the score:
So yes, lotsa fun, and all our visitors got to see a good game. Aaron, John and I got there very early, so Aaron and I tossed a bit and the guys got to meet a lot of my Ultiamte buds (Ben, Justin, Big Nate, Cisco, etc.). Good times. The iPJ took some video footage of the game, so perhaps I'll post some of that soon. In the meantime, here are some more pics from Greg:
Our next game is tomorrow, Monday, against fellow blogger Katherine and her Eric's team Plastic Falls, so get ready for more exciting tales from the Ultimate front.
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