Liveblogging - YCC Finals (live score updates)

C/o text messages from Ryan Thompson (The Pulse), minute by minute updates from Blaine, MN and the 2007 YCC finals - (all times EST)

MIXED UPDATES:

4:18pm - SEPDA 7 Atl 5

4:20pm - SEPDA 8 Atl 5 - off dropped pull, Noah to J Principi - Halftime

4:33pm - SEPDA 8 Atl 6 (via Score Reporter)

4:38pm - SEPDA 9 Atl 7

4:42pm - SEPDA 9 Atl 8

4:46pm - SEPDA 9 Atl 9 - All tied up!!! Nail biter in the works!

4:49pm - SEPDA 9 Atl 10 - Atlanta takes the lead on Callahan by Grant! sidelines must be going nuts.

4:51 pm - SEPDA 9 Atl 11 - Atlanta extends lead

4:57pm - SEPDA 10 Atl 11 - philly recovers

4:58pm - SEPDA 10 Atl 12

5:02pm - SEPDA 11 Atl 12

5:08pm - SEPDA 11 Atl 13

5:13pm - SEPDA 12 Atl 13

5:17pm - SEPDA 12 Atl 14 - layout grab by one of the Atl girls #12 Lane

GAME OVER ATLANTA WINS 14-12

OPEN UPDATES:

4:27pm - Seattle 9 New England 5 - callahan by #17

4:35pm - Seattle 9 New England 6

4:41pm - Seattle 10 New England 6

4:45pm - Seattle 11 New England 6

4:51pm - Seattle 12 New England 6

5:01pm - Seattle 12 New England 8

5:02pm - Seattle 13 New England 8

5:07pm - Seattle 13 New England 9

5:13pm - Seattle 14 New England 9

5:15pm - Seattle 14 New England 10

5:20pm - Seattle 14 New England 11

5:25pm - Seattle 15 New England 11

GAME OVER SEATTLE WINS 15-11

GIRLS' UPDATES:

4:32pm - Seattle 8 Oregon 5 (via Score Reporter)

4:36pm - Seattle 8 Oregon 6

4:39pm - Seattle 9 Oregon 6

4:41pm - Seattle 9 Oregon 7

4:46pm - Seattle 10 Oregon 7

4:58pm - Seattle 12 Oregon 8

5:10pm - Seattle 12 Oregon 9

5:14pm - Seattle 13 Oregon 9

5:16pm - Seattle 13 Oregon 10

5:22pm - Seattle 14 Oregon 10

GAME OVER SEATTLE WINS 14-10


Well thats the show, the 2007 YCCs are in the books - Seattle wins Open Girls, Atlanta wins Mixed.


[edited at 10:54pm to correct 5:17pm Mixed division inaccuracy, goal was scored by #12 Lane from Atlanta]

Weekend Open thread - Easterns Edition

If you hear the scores, put em up - Easterns seems to have live updates on the score reporter site, but any reports from the fields would be welcome im sure.

The big show...

• Easterns, open - Score Reporter - PlayUltimate preview
  
• Easterns, girls - Score Reporter

State Championships...

• Maryland, mixed - Score Reporter
• Maryland, open - Score Reporter
• Oregon, mixed - Score Reporter
• Colorado - Score Reporter

Other tournaments...

• Hotchkiss Invite - Score Reporter
• St. Johnsbury Invite - Score Reporter

Thus far according to the score reporter everything seems to have progressed to seed except for Northfield Mount Hermon and Madison West possibly flipping. Scores from the last round of play should be up shortly. Needham vs. North Hills should be a hell of a game (or i guess it was, its over now). Yorktown seems to also have silenced some critics or at least made a case for their seed, going 3-0 on the day.

Play-in games will start at 4:45pm tonight deciding who will face off against the four #1 pool finishers. The action starts again tomorrow at 10:30am, by 5pm tomorrow a champion of the east will be crowned.

If you have updates or scores from any of the tournaments post em as comments.

UPDATE - 3:52pm - Pennsbury up 10-8 on Amherst in the finals of Easterns. Check the comments for the most recent updates

2007 Easterns seedings announced...

Pool A
Pennsbury
Princeton
Madison West
Northfield Mt Hermon

Pool B
North Hills
Needham
Memorial
Fieldstone

Pool C
Amherst
Colombia
LC Bird
Sycamore

Pool D
HB Woodlawn
Univ School of Nashville
Lexington Catholic
Middletown

And the girls...

Amherst
University School of Nashville
Memorial
Columbia

Andover
Amherst JV
Stuyvesant
HB Woodlawn

c/o UPA Score Reporter - Open, UPA Score Reporter - Womens | Official Tournament Site

Whats interesting to me is how much the upper seeds have played each other. Seems like a high level of travel is becoming to norm, or at least expected if you want to become an elite high school team.

Also interesting that many of the top programs in the country have both open and girls teams. Perhaps it can be inferred that the reason these teams remain at an elite level is because of their commitment to developing a fundamentally sound program for ultimate - including jv teams, open and girls teams etc.

Easterns Open Division

This years' Easterns Open Teams are:
Middletown HS (Middletown, CT)
Lexington Catholic HS (Lexington, KY)
Amherst Regional HS (Amherst, MA)
Needham HS (Needham, MA)
Northfield Mt Hermon (Northfield, MA) - New England Prep School Ultimate League
Columbia HS (Maplewood, NJ)
Princeton HS (Princeton, NJ)
Fieldston HS (Bronx, NY)
Sycamore HS (Montgomery, OH)
Pennsbury HS (Fairless Hills, PA)
North Hills HS (Pittsburgh, PA)
University School of Nashville (Nashville, TN)
LC Bird HS (Chesterfield, VA)
Yorktown/HB Woodlawn (Arlington, VA)
James Madison Memorial HS (Madison, WI)
Madison West HS (Madison, WI)