We opened our eyes today, and we just saw something we like. A lot.
The Dartmouth Ultimate Pain Train team came to Charlotte for Queen City Tune Up this weekend. Green grass and hot temperatures and warm people greeted Dartmouth. Actually that’s all true except for the weather. It’s been windy and cold and right up the alley for these Hanover boys.
We had expensive miscues on our adventure thus far, like a speed ticket, and a flat tire. Lee made 87 dollars off Daniel Rosengard ’13 playing cards.
The van and bus made the 17+ hour trip from New Hampshire and got into the hotel Friday Night.
And now to Saturday. Our first game was against Cornell. We won against them at Huck a Hunk in the fall. They changed up zone and really strict man on us, but they just didn’t now how to contest coach Dr. Martin’s seattle slam plan. 7 points in a row. We beat them 13 to 4.
NYU Purple Haze- we sparred the Purple Haze hipsters and we had a fun game. The wind picked up something wicked , but the t’rain latched on a shimmering zone d. we got 83 cent marks and 29 cent marks and other things too ;)
Captain Mr. Engler threw quite an uncharacteristic scoober to Lee for a goal boom Lee would try his own scoober later in the day…
Carnegie Mellon- Our game against Carnegie Mellon came as the wind only got bigger. Caleb ’14 played great handler for us on O laying out for some crazy throws, and Nate Leherer ’14 got some stellar ds on our zone. We beat them 13 to 4 as well.
Last game of the day against UNC Dark Tide. This was a good game and we were a bit unprepared at first. They got a couple upwind breaks early on until we dialed in on the fact that we were playing a tremendous Frisbee game. Dan Rosengard ’13 was in a world lit by fire, duking it out with his UNC friends and hounding handlers in the zone. We got an upwind break with a ridiculous sky catch by local math stud Ian Adelstein, and after a couple more breaks we made it 6-5. Apollo ‘13 brought his war horse to this battle, playing rock hard as a handler and marching up the upwind line with comrade Engler to keep the team in the fight. Ultimately UNC’s throws were just a bit more dialed in then ours, and they won the game 9-6, although we won our pool because of point differential.
We await tomorrow, when we’ll open up with a game against Tufts.
