[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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