and the dust settles on day one....
In the Girls division Seattle reigns supreme, outscoring opponents 55-9, Denver came the closest to them at 11-4, but from the look of the scores Seattle is looking dominant going into day 2.
[Full results.]
In Mixed - a dark horse gallops through the competition hailing from Cincinatti, Ohio. Leaving day one pool play with a 4-0 record, the only other team in the Mixed division which remains unbeaten is the bunch from above the 49th parallel, Manitoba barely escapes day one with 4-0 marks after close games with Minnesota (13-11), Des Moines (13-8), and New England (11-9).
Manitoba and Cinci face off in the final game of pool play tomorrow at 8:30am to decide who will arrive in the brackets as the number one seed.
[Full results.]
In Open - in Pool A Seattle cruises outscoring opponents 43 to 10 on the day. Pittsburgh's Impulse picked up the rest of the pool, allowing only 9 points in the first two games of the day. The only close game in A was between Madison and Texas which Texas took home with a 10-9 decision.
In Pool B though the matches seem to have been a bit more evenly matched. 4 of the 6 games in pool B were won by 3 points or less, with the Colorado team being the cause of alot of the ruckus.
Round 1 - Philly vs. Colorado - SEPDA squeaks by with a 10-9 win
Round 2 - Colorado vs. New England - Denver boys upset the #2 seed 11-9
Round 3 - Colorado vs. Minnesota - Denver takes the game 10-9
Minnesota beats a tired Philly squad in round two to leave SEPDA and Colorado in a tie with 2-1 records for the #1 ranking in pool b, Philly gets the nod with the head to head win over Colorado.
[Full Results.]
This sets up a very intriguing quarterfinal and possibly semifinal, the brackets....
Seattle vs. Minnesota
Texas vs. Denver
Philly vs. Madison
Pittsburgh vs. New England
anyone notice something peculiar about this? all westerns (area) teams in the top half of the bracket and all easterns for the bottom perhaps?
so what will this lead to? a true battle between east and west in the finals perhaps? what could these brackets lead to? a keystone state scuffle between Impulse and SEPDA?
can the Square State Squadron serve Seattle Sunshine their first loss of the year? Or will the left coast prove definitively that west is best?
7 hours til kickoff.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
YCC Day Two Preview
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Philadelphia vs. Colorado in the Finals.
Colorado with the huge upset over Seattle in the semi's.
After being down 8-7 at half Philly comes back to win vs. Pittsburgh 14 - 12 in their semi-final match-up. More proof that Philly is better than Pitt in juniors Ultimate.
did we need more proof?
I heard that Philly rolled in the open finals. Congrats to Philly and Colorado on bringing home the medals in the open division.
Props to #2 from Philly (Aman Nalavade). The guy scored like 4 goals in the finals.
We won 15-6 in the final. We were up 10-1 and cruised to victory. Denver guys were awesome, we just learned from our first day and played the best game of the weekend.
YEAH SEPDA!
Seattle beat Pitt for 3rd, NE beat MN for 5th, and Madison beat Texas for 7th. All rematches in the final games on Sunday.
Manitoba won Mixed big over Cincinatti in the mixed finals.
Seattle beat Denver big in the girls finals.
Seattle took the open spirit award, I didn't notice the others.
All the finals were slightly anticlimactic. But the weekend was awesome.
215!
From watching most of the open games. I thought that the competition this year was great, especially between the top 6 teams. Philly v. Pitt was a great rivalry to watch. I was surprised by Minnesosta's game despite not having Yosi Kakau, Ben Feldman, and Michael Arenson. They put up great games against Seattle (coming back from 0-6 to within two) and Colorado (coming back from 8-3 to losing 10-9). I'm pretty sure they beat Philly the 1st day as well.
Colorado v. Seattle
Colorado had a great (and fast) team that seamed to mesh well together. Seattle, however, seemed unusually tired after their 1st game against MN.
#2 was nasty in the finals
The previous posts are right on about the top 6 teams. I think that the B pool, in particular, was nasty. Colorado and Minnesota were both awesome teams with tons of height and great handlers. Our games with them on Saturday could have easily gone either way.
Most of us on SEPDA agreed that Seattle was going to have a heck of a day on Sunday, having to get through BOTH Minnesota and Colorado to get to the finals. Although it made for a tough Saturday, I felt pretty lucky once we won our pool to have the easier trip to the finals.
That being said, Pittsburgh gave us one heck of a game in the Semis. They played a much better game against us than they did against Seattle, and they very easily could have pulled out the win.
It was a lot of fun to be able to coach such a closely contested tournament.
-Olson
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