The windy conditions caused a lot of zone on both sides and Dartmouth deservedly derailed Tufts offense for the most part with our hard working zone plan. There were a few points where they blasted through with quick throws, but for the most part we kept them honest, and even got an upwind break, and another d at their endzone. John Xu' 15, freshman handler played impressively for a couple high stakes zone points this game.
Score wise, Tufts got a couple more upwind breaks than we did, and that equalled the game for them 11-14. It might have only been 10-14, because of the hard cap, but we pushed for a final d point, and scored with Lee in the endzone. Golly. Thanks for pushing us RRI.
Coach Brook was happy with our game, for keeping Tufts on their toes, and for us getting way better than our last match in the fall. If Brook was happy, then so am I.
2nd game-University of Michigan.
This game we came roaring, keen not to slow down after our previous game, and we got two breaks in a row 2-0. We must have been a little flat though, because we turned the frisbee a lot and they scored and we never recaptured the lead.
Third game- Michigan State University
Engler didn't know whether to call these guys Michigan or Michigan State or what, so we settled for MSU. woo
Historically, Dartmouth hasn't been great after a hard loss Sunday morning. But this weekend we changed that with a win against MSU.
Our cool zone flustered MSU and they had trouble a few points getting it out of the endzone. If they threw it over the cup, our secondary was ready to d it. Dan Mott '12 had a crazy layout d in such a zone scenario. Our upwind conversions got better than they did against Tufts. Engler and Arthur Bledsoe got open at will behind the disc and apollo '13 blazed upline to score at least once or twice. Lee Usain Farnsworth '12 bolted to the endzone simply at will to catch a downwind homer or two.
We won 14-10. As said, this game was critical for changing our attitude towards tournament finales. I'd say we're pretty turned up after Tune Up for our next tournament, Pres Day in San Diego. See you in a couple days.
