[TFDA] Savage Seven Benefit Tourney -- Dugan's Debutantes Break up Catfight!

Christian Schwoerke schwoerkec at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 28 11:52:25 EST 2008


Dugan’s Debutantes Break up Catfight 

This past Sunday, January 27, Alison Murray’s Dugan’s Debutantes squad declawed Thuy Brooks’
Catfight, 7-4, to claim title to Champs of this year's 7th Annual Savage Seven Benefit Tourney. 
Meanwhile, in the chump division, Christian Schwoerke’s Yowza! used its positive attitude to
overcome the slinging from Rocky Payne’s There will be Mud! squad, with a 7-5 victory.

This year’s edition of Tim and Thuy Brooks’ benefit tourney (earning $1264 for TFDA’s Ultiplex
fund) featured 16 teams vying for little more than the opportunity to survive 7 games to 7,
without ever being able to call on a sub to catch one’s breath or quell cramping muscles.  

Games began early at Morrisville’s Cedar Fork complex, with eight fields in use across the park’s
expanse by 9:30.  The early morning frost was gone by 10:30, and the day turned warm and sunny,
reaching the mid-fifties by 2pm, when the semis began.

However, before that time, there were three rounds of pool-play games in each of the four pools. 
The tourney’s premise, that all the teams are of equal strength (ie, 26 points)--based on players
being ranked for their level of play during the past three years, with the highest value (6) going
to Nationals-caliber players and 1 going for players who only play pick-up games--made seeding pro
forma, which meant that pools and overall seeds were initially randomly generated.

Pools and pool-play results looked like this:

After pool play, standings in each pool were like this:

Pool A                      Pool B
Dugan’s Debutante’s 2-1     Catfight 3-0
Ron Paul 2-1                Business Beards 2-1
Multiple Scorgasms 1-2      TAU 1-2
Yoknapatawpha 1-2           7 Years of Bad Huck 0-3

Pool C                      Pool D
Dump Truck 3-0              There will be Mud! 3-0
That’s What She Said 2-1    Little Spoon’s Revenge 2-1
Sloppy Sevenths 1-2         Crown Vic 1-2
Yowza! 0-3                  Overrated 0-3

Any tourney where there’s some question about initial seeding needs some additional play, and
that’s the basis for introducing a pre-quarters round, to send half the field into the champ
division and the other half into the chump division.

Matchups featured #1s facing off against #4s, while #2s vied with #3s.  Seeds did not always hold,
with the following results:

Dugan’s Debutantes over Overrated 7-1
Catfight over Yowza! 5-4
Dump Truck over 7 Years of Bad Huck 7-1
Yoknapatawpha over There will be Mud! 6-5

Ron Paul over Crown Vic 7-2
Sloppy Sevenths over Business Beards 6-5
That’s What She Said over TAU 6-3
Little Spoon’s Revenge over Multiple Scorgasms 7-6

The tourney was now divided along champ/chump lines, with teams vying in quarters to semis to
finals in their respective divisions.  

Chump quarters:

Crown Vic over Seven Years of Bad Huck 5-4
There will be Mud! over Business Beards 5-1
TAU over Overrated 4-3
Yowza! Over Multiple Scorgasms 7-3

Chump semis:

Yowza! over Crown Vic 7-3
There will be Mud! over TAU 6-4

Chump finals:

Yowza! over There will be Mud! 7-5

By the time the single-elimination portion of the tourney came around, most teams were dragging
out the start of their games, trying to recover some of the vim and vigor that had been sapped in
the previous round.  Another unforgiving aspect of this tourney is that injuries could not be
adequately dealt with and teams were required to limp along as best they could.  Such was the fate
of Business Beards, which succumbed to There will be Mud! due to an injury that could not be run
through.  

Yowza!, which had won no games up to this point, though vying strongly with Catfight in the
pre-quarters, had finally found its mojo and ran off two strong victories to make it to the chump
finals.  Taking a different route entirely, There will be Mud! had won all their games but the
pre-quarters matchup with the overachieving Faulkner-tribute team Yoknapatawpha.  Rather than
implode, Mud! went on to win the quarters and semis, ready at last to prove their tourney mettle
against the upstart Yowza!

Few teams had relied much on their zone defense, but it was Yowza!’s staple, and it took Mud! by
surprise, earning several turnovers early in the game, giving Yowza! a 3-1 lead.  Rocky Payne,
Bobby Veit, and Sharon Tucker anchored the handling side of Mud!, each trying to find occasion to
send the disc deep to Steven Hill or Tristan Green.  Meanwhile, Yowza! employed a loose spread
offense, re-setting the disc with short laterals and dumps to the primary handlers Jeff Smith,
Becki Cleveland, and Christian Schwoerke.  Upfield receivers Victor Maneilly, Jen Cornejo, Sanya
Carley, and Joe Carley gained valuable yardage on comeback cuts. Both teams, however, were subject
to turnovers, often ill-advised throws into coverage, and the game see-sawed back and forth, a
matter of trading points till at 6-5, after regaining possession at the goal line, Mud! once more
faced a Yowza! zone defense.  Victor lay low in the wing pocket, then pounced to knock down the
swing pass to the sideline.  Four seconds later, the game was over with a 2-foot pass to Yowza!’s
Sanya.

Champ quarters:

Dugan’s Debutantes over That’s What She Said 7-2
Catfight over Little Spoon’s Revenge 6-5
Ron Paul over Dump Truck 5-3
Sloppy Sevenths over Yoknapatawpha 5-1

Champ semis:

Dugan’s Debutantes over Sloppy Sevenths 7-6
Catfight over Ron Paul 7-4

Champ finals:

Dugan’s Debutantes over Catfight 7-4

Quarters play revealed how pyrrhic pre-quarters victories could be.  Tired or limping, teams that
eked out victories to make it to the champ division could not play at 100%, and they fell hard. 
Catfight, however, faced an opponent that took them to universe point for the fourth time that
day, and they just narrowly dispatched the vengeful Spoon.  Libertarian Ron Paul vetoed any use of
Dump Trucks later in the tourney, with a hard-fought 5-3 victory.

The semis matchups showed no slackening of intensity and both games were played out fully. 
Dugan’s Debutantes faced a strong give and go team in Cate Foster’s Sloppy Sevenths, stocked with
some of her South Carolina ultimate kin, and this game see-sawed to universe point, when Dugan’s
Debutantes just said no to sloppiness.  Catfight’s play against Ron Paul was efficient, and they
prevented Ron Paul from pushing them to the brink, as had happened in previous games.

Nonetheless, the effort need to contain Stephen Poulos, Leslie McCormack, et al., of Ron Paul took
its toll on Catfight’s squad, while the Debutantes simply freshened up without any loss of polish.
 This reporter was busy on another field, playing with Yowza! and missed the details in this game,
but Catfight captain Thuy Brooks, in a locker room post-game interview, said, “Alison put together
a great combination of athletic youth and experienced vets that was hard to overcome.  We’d had a
hard tournament, winning most of our games on universe point.  We looked tired and deflated in the
finals, which allowed Dugan's Debutantes to go up early and capitalize well on all of our
turnovers.”  Augie Kreivenas, Kris Bass, and Beth Cates were the vets Thuy referred to, and the
youth were Alison Murray, Thomas Sayre-McCord, Mack Garrison, and Jessica Richard.  Catfight’s
squad comprised even more vets, two of whom who play only during this tourney: Thuy Brooks, Sandy
Hartwiger, Tim Lupo, Brian Lang, Lee “Cajun” Andrew, Anne Waller, and Kim Nimmer.

As Dugan said to HIS bunch of debutantes, “There’s no crying in ultimate,” which is perhaps the
reason the team was able to bounce back after its final pool-play loss to sweep the rest of their
games.

Congrats to all the winners and all the players for making this Savage Tourney another great
fundraising event!

 
Rosters:

The special feature of this Savage Seven tourney is that teams can comprise no more than 26
points, with players being ranked for their level of play during the past three years, with the
highest value (6) going to Nationals-caliber players and 1 going for players who only play pick-up
games.

Yoknapatawpha
Kate Morrison  6
Kate Scott  3
Emma Johnson  1
Josh Berkowitz  6
Dwayne Purper  5
Joe Jansen  2
Eli Carley  2

Dugan's Debutantes
Beth Stagner  6
Alison Murray  4
Jessica Richard  1
Kris Bass  6
Augie Kreveinas  5
Mack Garrison  2
Thomas Sayre McCord  1

Multiple Scorgasms
Carla Haslauer  4
Christina Beauchamp  4
Alyssa Hopkins  4
Mick Ribault  6
Daniel Dayton  3
Jon Bolding  2
DJ Conrad  1

Ron Paul 08
Katy Harris  6
Lesley McCormick  6
Mary Frazier  1
Stephen Poulos  6
Chris Shepherd  5
Steve Frame  1
Ryan McCann  1

Catfight
Thuy Brooks  5
Kim Nimmer  2
Anne Waller  1
Sandy Hartwiger  6
Brian Lang  6
Tim Lupo  5
Lee Andrew  1

Business Beards
Frannie Goodrich  6
Amie Hobbie  2
Shellie Cohen  2
Baker Pratt  5
Grant Gill  5
Patrick Rabenold  4
Brendan Miller  2

7 Years of Bad Huck
Sarah Immel  6
Shannon Marklin  4
Kari Blevins  2 
Paul Johnson  4
Cam Bevington  4
Derrick Marcey  4
Andrew Carmen  2

TAU
Lauren Tompson  6
Linda Kroger  4
Kelly Weeks  2
Jimmy Holtzman  5
Charlie Kroger  4
Ben Murphy  4
Brandon Parker  1

Sloppy Sevenths
Cate Foster  6
Anna Bucher  4
Jen Lee  3
Bud Yackey  5
Chris Grantham  3
Eric Wilder  3
Tain Collins  2

That’s What She Said
Frances Deschenes  4
Laurie Williams  4
Britnay Burns  2
Josh Norris  5
Brett James Matzuka  5
Evan Bowles  4
Warren Immel  1

Dump Truck
Melanie Morgan  5
Sarah Morrison  5
Christine Bookhout  1
Taylor Pope  6
Motts Mueller  5
Damon Circosta  2
Zach Mondry  2 

Yowza!
Becki Cleveland  6
Jenny Cornejo  4
Sanya Carley-Olsen  2
Jeff Smith  5
Victor Maneilly  4
Christian Schwoerke  3
Joe Carley-Olsen  2

There Will Be Mud!
Sharon Tucker  6
Kristen Jacobson  5
Sara Wobker  2
Rocky Payne  5
Bobby Veit  5
Steven Hill  2
Tristan Green  1

Crown Vic
Sasha Romantseva  6
Denice Cunningham  5
Anne Burroughs  2
Mike Riley 5
Mike Styers  4
Matt Burleson  2
Joe Kinnarney  2

Overrated
Missy Overby  6
Katherine Bliss  4
Teresa Leavens  2
Jesse Overby  5
Kevin Himberger  5
Phil Piper  2
Chris Hardee  2

Little Spoon’s Revenge
Lauren Gardner  5
Julie Morris  4 
Caroline Wong  2
Joey Connelly  6
Larry Durgin  4
Monty Pridgeon  2
Dalton DeLuca  2





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