looking at the score reporter there were a few tournaments this weekend -
most notably -
Alameda Ultimate Festival - won by Alameda over Castro Valley on universe point
Spring Reign
and Penn Park Potluck - won by Wissahickon
consider this an open thread to talk about those or any tournaments or games this past weekend, until the real recaps and rundowns from the games start to pour in from our local contributors.
(or if you would rather look ahead - Hip Hop on Pop is coming up really soon as is the Madison Mud bath)
chat away!
Sunday, April 02, 2006
april 1/2 weekend tournament open thread
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Alameda and Castro Valley had blowouts in their game, as they both knew the game against eachother was the one that mattered.
Alameda had everybody except probably their 6th/7th best player. Castro Valley had about 9, as they usually bring to tournaments.
Teams traded to 2-2. Alameda took a 6-3 lead, but Castro Valley was able to get 2 before half to be down 7-5 at half. Castro Valley went 3-1 out of the half to tie it up at 8-8. Castro Valley went up 14-13 but Alameda scored to get to 14-14. Alameda looked like they had won on a miracle hammer crazily caught in the back of the end zone at the end, but their was a contested stall. After a few turnovers by both teams, Alameda finally punched it in for the win.
California states will be fun, as these two teams should be meeting in the finals for the second straight year.
On a side note, can anyone that was in Seattle tell us what the conditions were? I mean, the Nathan Hale/Lakeside game being 3-2? Were there 40 MPH winds or something?
on the penn potluck tourney - looks like its going to be another dominant year for wissahickon, can they possibly repeat as 3x PA state champions?
will pennsbury's hype stand up to the test?
has pennsbury played any games this spring?
interesting stuff i noticed from the scores: prep played LM on march 11th this year and then again during the tournament this weekend. first game a loss 6-13, second a loss 12-13.
to me this is very indicative of the learning curve for ultimate. i know that prep is a very freshman heavy team... very freshman heavy.
on the wiss side of things - every single year you look at their graduating class and say "ok, now next year they are going to drop" and every single year they manage to maintain a very high level of play.
two years ago i thought i knew all of their good players - and then they all graduated. and then last year i thought i knew all their good players, and then they graduated.
either they have some great recruiting there or one hell of a practice regiment that somehow keeps that level going. but very impressive nonetheless.
Kevin,
The 3-2 game was the result of a missed hard cap during the prior game.
The weather was rainy all Saturday with a good bit of wind as well.
-Mike
Pennsbury has had 4 scheduled games in the past two weeks. All 4 opponents have cancelled on them. They are hoping that they will finally get to play a game before they head to Atlanta for the Padeia cup in a couple weeks.
Pennsbury handled Wiss in the fall. They match up well against them, but Wiss's lack of depth will hurt them in the long run against the Peyote.
First off, the LM-SJP game was misreported, it was actually 13-11. Sorry, I'm just nitpicky. But yes, the Prep has definitely improved just in these few short weeks -- but some failed simple passing/catching by LM certainly hurt.
The 'Dactyls also dropped off, but they had to play a lot of games in a short time and were definitely very tired.
While I'd still put my money on Pensnsbury, Wissahickon is a very well disciplined, well trained, well conditioned team. They played the entire tournament with only 7 players, and LM was actually far more tired in the championship game, despite having more like 15 players.
Also, props to Kevin Taylor for keeping the game together, despite losing fields and a team dropping out and all that jazz.
Oh, and Columbia's B team won the spirit award. Yay for them.
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