Miss Red: 5-1-1, Summer Women's League Co-champions

Back Row: Beck, Carly, Genevieve, Allyson, Kuda, Nicole, Emma, Joanne
Front: Cathy, Bonnie, Jenny, Deb

There's no tying in baseball, but when the lights went out at Benedict last night with the score tied 11-11, there wasn't a whole lot we could do about it. So the season ended with a tied championship, which makes all variants of the Nyet-Genevieve VOTS combo 1-1-1 in Finals games, and I suppose we'll take it.

The count went 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 4-5, 4-6, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 8-9, 9-9, 10-9, 10-10, 11-10, 11-11. So pretty tight and back and forth the whole night. Really sloppy, though - just a ton of turns, crazy errant throws, slop hucks up for grabs, etc. An ugly game in which Miss Red's general MO was the deep game and Desert Divas was the work-it-up, handler up the line cuts game. Both sides responded (to some degree) with the appropriate defenses, so the game dragged on a long while.

Beck was great, and I continue to be proud of my wife. Just great D and several possession cuts, including a sweet one-handed snag. Only one turn I can think of, and that was because her dumps had abandoned her and she had to jam a throw in on stall 9. Great game, and as I mentioned this morning, she's now been in the finals of every league in which she's played. I hope she doesn't get spoiled. :)

For whatever reason, i don't entirely feel like giving this the full write-up treatment. It was kinda an ugly game, to be perfectly honest, and a lot of the scores (to these biased eyes, especially from the other team) were lucky swill. Kuda played like a rockstar, natch. Allyson got a little bit of the case of too-athletics - I have an operating theory that when you're super athletic and fast, you get used to getting open realyl easily, and it puts a damper on your cutting technique, such that when you run into a good defernded, suddenly you can't do much of anything. So something for the A-child to work on. Genevieve was *this close* to several D's, so a layout or two here or there could have made the difference... ah, well. Miss Red really just wasn't clicking quite as well as usual last night, and granted, part of that is due to the tougher defense. I continue to look for the progress of Phoenix Ultimate, though, and so I get a little frustrated at / disappointed in the sloppy play.

Regardless of the performance in / outcome of the last game, it was indeed a fun season, and I'm glad Beck got to play in this league. Big thanks to Joanne, too, for the tasty cookies, of which I have already partaken far too much. Hopefully this weekend in Colorado of competitive disc will take a little of the Fat off of Fat Nyet.