The Pennsbury Peyote are hosting their spring tournament -- their Fall Brawl brought out some top competition, and Born to Dive hopes to do the same.
On the beautiful Mercer County Ultimate League fields, 8 teams in the varsity division and 6 teams in the JV division will play some Ultimate and have some fun.
The Pennsbury Peyote themselves have had a dissapointing spring season so far, especially after their strong Fall with wins at Fall Brawl and Kitkat; they started the spring with a loss to PHUEL rival Wissahickon 15-11 in regular season play prior to Hiphoponpop. At Hiphop, they registered a loss on Universe point to Columbia, and then at the Paideia Cup, they lost to Columbia again, capturing 6th place. They should not be so challenged at their own event.
2 more PHUEL teams, Central Bucks East and Lower Merion, follow Pennsbury. With nearly identical RRI rankings, CB East got the nod in seeding due to their stronger spring season so far, almost taking Princeton but falling short at Hiphop. LM took their first matchup in the Fall at Kitkat, and hopes to repeat with a win of their pool. Either way, 3 of PHUEL's top 4 teams will be on the fields.
2 teams from New York are travelling down, Scarsdale and Stuyvessant. Stuyvessant is certainly among the class of New York, but lost to CB East and Princeton at Hiphop, and Scardsale went into Fall Brawl with high expectations, but failed to live up to their 2 seed, with losses to 3 and 4 seeds Wissahickon and Pennsbury.
Watchung Hills is the varsity division's lone representative from New Jersey. While Watchung is the 3rd ranked team from NJ, after Princeton and Columbia, they don't really stack up with the big guns.
2 more teams from PHUEL round out the bottom, with the Haverford School and Council Rock South. Haverford beat Council Rock South 12-10, but neither is expected to make serious noise.
(Pool A: Pennsbury, Scarsdale, Watchung Hills, Haverford School; Pool B: CB East, LM, Stuyvessant, Council Rock South)
The JV Division truly does contain a mix of JV teams, 4/6 of them coming from A teams in the Varsitry bracket (Pennsbury, LM, Watchung Hills, and Stuyvessant), plus a JV team from JP Stevens, and West Windsor Plainsboro North's full team. Pennsbury's B-Unit is certainly becoming a strong team, playing better each time they take the field.
(Pool A: West Windsor, Pennsbury B-Unit, Stuyvessant JV; Pool B: JP Stevens JV, Lower Merion B, Watchung Hills JV)
Good Ultimate, good fields, a good day.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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4 comments:
This tournament is gonna be pretty cut and dry with Pennsbury vs. CB East in the finals.
I hope to see a Scarsdale vs. Lower Merion playing for third. This will be a hard fought game that will also be close. Despite a poor fall Scarsdale is still a top tier team. This could be Lower Merions chance to prove themsleves beyond Philly and NJ B teams.
Awesome weekend of Ultimate in NJ, Born to Dive on Saturday. Sunday go watch Metro East regionals in Princeton.
go to your local regionals competition.
if you have young players on your teams there is no better way to show them what ultimate really truly in fact is.
if you have veterans on your team - same thing.
if you like the sport of ultimate and want to see it grow, there is nothing better to do than support it at different levels.
go toooo regionallllllssss
Pennsbury will Easily take CB east, no competition.
Pennsbury is the ultimate high school, they dominated.
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