[TFDA] [RaleighUltimate] New Year Hat -- LOST AND FOUND

Mike Riley mikeriley711 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 17:29:30 EST 2008


Whoever left a blue IBM sweatshirt and a black/gray sweater, let me
know and we can make arrangements for their safe return.

On 1/3/08, Christian Schwoerke <schwoerkec at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Christmas colors prevailed at the first Triangle tourney of 2008, with a
> Stephen Poulos' Red
> rolling over Taylor Pope's Green in the finals 9-3, a score that exactly
> complemented their first-
> game results, five rounds earlier.
>
> The day began with some light winds (that got stronger and gustier as the
> day progressed), 40-ish
> degree temperatures (rising to nearly 50), and a clear sky.  Players began
> to assemble at the
> Cedar Forks fields in Morrisville about 9:15, with each team mustering a
> starting 7 by 9:30.
> Games began 10 minutes later.
>
> With each game a short battle to 9 in 1-hour rounds, teams had to come out
> early with the
> strongest defense and surest offense they could muster.  Red did not get the
> memo in the first
> round, and they succumbed to green 3-9, while the other first round games
> were decided by a single
> goal.  Four rounds later, round-robin standings produced the following:
>
> Green  4-1
> White  3-2
> Red    3-2
> Glue   3-2
> Black  2-3
> Yellow 0-5
>
> Of note in the final round was Green's acquiescence to Blue.  One of their
> players had not shown
> up all day, and his absence had the 4-0 team fatigued, ready to rest during
> the final round so
> that the team could come out strong in the semis.  Thus, Blue was able to
> eke out its third
> victory to put them in a 3-way tie with White and Red, both of them having
> beaten Blue.
>
> Of further note was that the semis round (which included the consolation
> game for Black and
> Yellow) was an exact re-match of the games played in the previous round.
> Thus Blue (4) matched up
> again with Green (1), and White (2) faced off against Red (3) for a second
> time.
>
> The previous matchup with Black and Yellow had the former team win by 2
> goals; in the consolation
> game--with Mick Ribault of Yellow and Lindsey Hack and Raj Prasad of Black
> dropping out--the
> result was still a 2-goal difference, with Black again the victor, 9-7.
>
> In the semis games, previous round results were reversed.  White had run Red
> ragged for a 7-4
> victory in the previous round, but in the semis matchup, Red's forces
> regrouped behind Stephen
> Poulos, Daniel Dayton, Melanie Morgan, and Tim Sannes to overcome White's
> Kris Bass, Rob
> Sayre-McCord, Chris Shepard, and Leslie McCormack, 9-5.
>
> The other semis game had the same result, a reversal of the previous round.
> This one was harder
> fought, however, with Blue's larger number of subs rotating in frequently to
> wear down the shorter
> Green rotation.  Green, behind strong play from Taylor Pope, Dan Snoke,
> Sharon Tucker, and Brian
> Lang, took the half 5-2.  Blue resolved for the new year and final half of
> the game to run harder
> and to score at least 2 for every goal from their opponent.  Nan Gao,
> playing with a right
> shoulder injured in the first round, led the Blue forces: Hayden Sewell,
> Lauren Gardner, Baker
> Pratt, Josh Murphy, and a host of others still ready to run.  Blue inched
> its way back into the
> game, reeling off 3 goals to bring it to 5-5.  From this point forward, the
> game see-sawed with
> Green going up 8-7.  Blue again tied the score at 8-8, then put out its
> strongest D line, with
> Baker on Taylor, Lauren on Sharon, Nan on Tim, etc., with Hayden playing a
> loose deep defense on
> Green's pickup player Cody (visiting from Iowa).  Green ran a string,
> getting the third pass to
> Taylor, pinned up against the sideline, with Baker forcing a flick.  Taylor,
> however, faked just
> enough to allow a strong pivot to the break side, from which he launched a
> low, long pass that
> arrived in Cody's hands before Hayden could close the gap.
>
> It was to prove a pyrrhic victory for Green, as they were more depleted than
> formerly and they
> faced in the finals a Red squad that had seemed to gain fire.  While the
> points were contested--
> with multiple possessions by both sides--Red recovered and controlled the
> disc more often, taking
> half at 5-1, then allowing only 2 more Green goals before ending the finals
> 9-3 to win the
> Triangle's first tourney of 2008.
>
> Consolation results:
>
> Black over Yellow  9-7
>
> Semis results:
>
> Red over White     9-5
> Green over Blue    9-8
>
> Finals results:
>
> Red over Green     9-3
>
> Line score for the finals:
>
>                                   Green *||* Red
>                                              1  Morgan/Lo
>                                              2  Poulos/Riley
>                                              3  Dayton/J.Snoeyenk
>                                              4  Wilson/Riley
>                           Lang/Snoke  1
>                                              5  Poulos/Sannes
>                                              6  Lo/Wilson
>                           Snoke/Lang  2
>                                              7  Poulos/Sannes
>                                              8  Sannes/S.Snoeyenk
>                        Cody/Bookhout  3
>                                              9  Lo/Morgan
>
>
> ***Rosters
>
> Red                 Green                 Yellow
> Lynn Pudlo          Christine Bookhout    Denice Cunningham
> Melanie Morgan      Renee Sanders         Irene Sadler
> Pamela Wright       Sandy Dempsey         Mary Frazer
> Sarah Snoeyink      Sharon Tucker         Thuy Brooks
> Daniel Dayton       Cody (of Iowa)        Adam Grant
> Jack Snoeyink       Arnett Brown          Brian Williams
> Michael Fraenkel    Brian Holloway        Jason Fortner
> Mike Riley          Brian Lang            Joe Wollhar
> Sonny Lo            Daniel Snoke          Marc Kessler
> Stephen Poulos      Dave Anderson         Matthew White
> Thomas Kehl-Fie     No-show Marcus        Mick Ribault
> Tim Sannes          Nick Crawford         Pete Maniloff
> Timothy Murray      Peter Linnartz        Terry Kramer
> Wendell Wilson      Taylor Pope           Thomas Sayre-McCord
>                     Thomas Wicker         Tim Brooks
>
> White               Blue                  Black
> Jenny Cornejo       Anne Burroughs        Courtney Paulson
> Lesley McCormack    Lauren Gardner        Jeanette Deupree
> Linda Brinkley      Mimi Phan             Kelly Weeks
> Lindsay Lang        Sara Veale            Lindsey Hack
> Bryce Tennant       Adam Hardy            Butch Konneker
> Chris Shepard       Alan Ellis            Chuck Yu
> David Gluhareff     Andy Li               Joey Connelly
> Evan Turner         Baker Pratt           Johnny Napoli
> Kevin Calcagno      Christian Schwoerke   Jonathan Miller
> Kris Bass           Douglas Ivers         Mark Henkle
> Mitch Talley        Dusty Hoefer          Motts Mueller
> Rob Sayre-McCord    Hayden Sewell         Nathan Fritze
> Ross Goldberg       Jon Bolding           Raj Prasad
> Victor Maneilly     Joshua Murphy         Seth Hopper
>                     Nan Gao               Tom Munoz
>
> ***Schedule
>
>           Field 1             Field 2            Field 3
> 9:30      green v. red        blue v. black      white v. yellow
> 10:30     green v. yellow     blue v. red        white v. black
> 11:30     green v. white      blue v. yellow     red v. black
> 12:30     green v. black      blue v. white      red v. yellow
> 1:30      black v. yellow     blue v. green      red v. white
>
>           Semis #1            Semis #2           Consolation
> 2:45      1 v. 4              2 v. 3             5 v. 6
>           Finals
> 3:45      1 v. 2
>
> ***Rules
>
> *  All games first to 9, half when one team reaches 5.
> *  Time cap 50 minutes after start of round.  Finish point underway, then
> add 1
>    to reset new game goal, not to exceed 9.
> *  One time out per half.  No time outs during the time cap.
> *  Gender ratio is 5/2, and at least two women must play each point.  If a
> team
>    chooses to field 3 women, its opponent does not have to match.
> *  Novelty rule: midfield brick.
>
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