Good evening and welcome to this edition of the Princess Layout Tourney
wrap-up... the Dartmouth Women cruised down to Devens, MA on Saturday morning
to find that the BUDA tourney directors had arranged piss-poor weather for us.
here's a brief recap of the exciting events that followed...
Game 1 vs. Smith: (imagine rain) We came out strong against the smithies in
our first game with them this season. They had this one girl with crazy hucks,
but other than that they couldn't handle our hot zone D. After halftime our
flow starting looking quite good and we took it away. 11-2
Game 2 vs. UVM: (imagine more rain) UVM had a couple of really strong
handles and not much behind them, so we decided to throw a four man cup. we
kept them close to our enzone line pretty much the whole time and forced the
Callahan, yeah Kat! props to stoller and liz who caught most of our scores
that game. we won: 11- 0
Game 3 vs. WHUFO B: (imagine more wetness than ever) there's not a whole
lot to say about this game. they were fun to play and we were solid. another
bagel: 11-0
Game 4 vs. UMass: (imagine it letting up jUst enough for the disc to dry)
we had a big break in between the whufo and the umass game, so we were a bit
cold off the starting block for this one. UMass took advantage and dominated
the first half with their sick handling. The second half we stepped it up and
they had trouble with our zone. our flow also got really hot, but not hot
enough to come back, we loose: 6-11
dinner quickly became a fiasco in logistics, but once we made it back to
Abby's apt for dryness and warmth, the world was set right again. props to
abby's soft carpeted floor, her roomates who tolerated us tracking grass
everywhere and spreading our stank all over. Sunday morning we pounced on the
fields, well-rested and raring to go.
Quarter Finals vs. BU. Highlights from this game include a sick, sick
layout by ms. aekta shah and ariel ruled the enzone by scoring most of our
points. our o was expecially hot this game and we took this one to the record
books quickly. 13-1.
Semis vs. UVM: UVM was out for revenge in this rematch. they'd definitely
gone back to the drawing board and stepped it up becuase our zone didn't quite
hold them as well. it was exciting, we stepped up the intensity several
notches and our offense carried through from the BU game, including our
developing long game. we pulled through strong again. 15-7
Finals! vs. UMass: this was an intense rematch. our d was a step behind
here and there and UMass took advantage. our intensity was high with people
bidding all over: stoller with a layout D and little liz with a hot layout
catch. our mistakes on O haunted us, though and UMass cruised in for the
victory: 13-6
come to practice tomorrow to see our 2nd place trophy! shout outs -- to our
05s who did quite a bit more handling than they ever have and proved their
worth as such. to kat for being a fantastic coach. to abby for being our
wonderful hostess. to our two 06s who braved the weather and both improved by
leaps and bounds this weekend. and many more. i'm so fired up about this team.
we played strong the whole weekend. our hard work in practice and conditioning
is paying off and it can only continue through purple valley and beyond...
live it, love it, lay it out -lindsica
