Game one vs. Wash U:
As we worked to stretch out our legs and steal back those memories of how to
throw outdoors, WUWU fought fiercely in retaliation. WS took half with WUWU close behind. After half, WUWU took a run bringing the score to even 7's before Woman Scorned was able to take control and play our style of ultimate. Britt had several sky D's (and one with her face) while Bosco and J-Rick added to the D list. Cassie 'sexy' Panther had a layout grab in the end zone to bring the score to 10-8. Point 12 was too ridiculous to comprehend as the score book just says "we pull, they turn, we turn, they turn, we turn, they t, this is just ridiculous!" The game was finally ended with a huck from Gap to L-Dawg for the score, and Woman Scorned took their first win of the tournament.Spirit discs were handed out by each team in pool play games to the player who showed the best spirit during the game. WUWU presented Love with their spirit disc for game 1. WUWU was, as always, a ton of fun to play, and it proved to be a very difficult decision picking just one lady to present with a spirit disc.
13-8 Woman Scorned
Game two vs. Minnesota:
After struggling to our first win of the day, Scorned came out ready to work the kinks out of our game. We started with a nice 3 point run before Minnesota could get some points up on the board. Scorned continued to push points up while only allowing a few scores from our opponents before taking half. The Ninjas answer to half time with a three point run before Bosco and Jazz pull out some D's to throw a few more up. With only one hiccup in our game, when Jazz forgot to jump for a floating disc, Woman Scorned finished the game with several D's from Stine, Jazz, Pesch, and Annihka before J put one to the end zone for Magical Liu to make a pretty play.
With a sweet cheer from Minnesota, the game was over, and Jazz received the spirit disc for game 2.
13-6 Woman Scorned
Game three vs. Emory:
As we approached our third game, we could see that the competition was getting more intense. Emory brought a fight to the field as they stepped on with fierce legs and stellar hucking ability. The game started with a Mag to Stine score, and was followed with a big D from Bosco to allow Gap to pick up the disc and put it right back to Bosco for the score. Despite Jiear's head D, Emory picked up the third point of the game to make it 2-1.
Emory took advantage of their rally and brought the score to 2-3 before WS called a time out to recollect ourselves. With our heads back on track, J-Rick got a sweet hand block and WS went on to take the game to half. WS continued to look strong after half with a huge huck from Jazz to J-Rick for point 11, and we ended the game with a D by Gap (just to throw it away again), recovery D from Jazz, and a put from Stine to Mag for the win.With a tough game brought from Emory and a great come back under our belts, we cheered Emory and they presented the spirit disc to Gap.
12-8 Woman Scorned
With pool play over, our cross over game meant another go with our home state rivals. As we prepared to play our last game of that day, we stretched out our bodies dancing on the sidelines. Without giving away too much to the teams that will soon be our competition at Centex, we practiced our dance moves and learned a few tricks from Love about hip hop.
Game four vs. Iowa:
As trash talk began before the disc was even flipped, Iowa used their baton-twirler to aw us into submission. The first points were fought hard as we struggled to get the batons out of our minds and focus on the frisbee. With a 3-2 lead on Iowa, a sweet put was thrown to Love near the end zone. She made the great catch, tossed it down, and did a victory dance as we all screamed "No!" because she was not in the end zone! As we all laughed and gave her crap, Iowa picked up the disc and began working up field. What was likely to be a quick point, soon proved to be the LONGEST point in the history of Ultimate Frisbee. After a time out from Iowa, Love tried to revive herself with a D, but the point continued a good several minutes longer before Stine sent it to Gap in the end zone for the score. New line. The remainder of the game was Scorned domination with D's across the board and a foot block from Bosco. We ended the game, with our biggest point differential of the day and solidified the trophy for the Ultimate Cy-Hawk Challenge.
13-5 Woman Scorned
As we ended our game, the majority of Woman Scorned headed over to tourney central to get ready for the skills clinic. After commandeering the food table, we were introduced to some Stellar Women's Ultimate players and headed to our respective clinics. The next few hours were magical-improving our ups, learning how to devastate marks, and turning our D into realITY, (ya like that?) HUGE thanks to Michelle Ng, Holly Greunke, Anna Nazarov, and WUWU for putting on this great tourney!
Scorned headed out to eat dinner and wash up. Arriving to Blake's house in waves, Scorned got the night started with some animated movie fun-Kungo Fu Panda style! Love, Jazz, and I headed out to an unofficial tourney party with Saucy Nancy and Tsunami, while the rest of the team headed out for a McDonald's night cap. After a little bit o' Midwestern socializing, we headed home to get some genuine sleep and fully appreciate our first round bye. Although rain was in the forecast for Sunday, we awoke to 60 degree weather and decided to come back in black! Unfortunately, Chelle lost the flip for color and we were forced to put our smelly reds back on (making me monochromatic once again), and saving our blacks for another day.
Quarters game vs. Northwestern:
Determined to continue our improvements from Saturday, we came out strong and rolled the score straight up to 5-1 with a sweet layout score from Magic for point 4 and a sick D from her on point 5. Love, Jiear, and Stine also got some D action on point 5 and then we called a time out which gave NW time to recollect. With NW grabbing the next point, Annikha, Cassie, and Bosco fought hard with D's to get the following score. Northwestern took a run with the disc, bringing the score to 7-6. In the following point, a floaty disc went up and proceeded to get attacked by three hands (one NW, one Magic, one L-Dawg). As they landed on top of each other, no one dared to let go. After getting up, Magic yelled "I LEARNED THAT AT THE SKILLS CLINIC!" After a little bit of discussion but mostly laughter, disc went to the offense (us) and Mag proved her new skills with a put to Bosco for the point.
The rest of the game was fought to the death with D's on both teams and a tight game at universe point. With NW in possession of the disc, ferocious Scorned D gets the stall count high with Jazz on the mark. As Gap’s handler desperately dump cut for the disc, Jazz and Gap kept hard D allowing only a floaty toss off of a hand block before the stall. As Gap jumped for the D, so did her girl, into her and Gap only got enough to tip it into Jazz's beautiful hands (which came from no where) before she hit the ground. Jazz gets a Callahan for the win on universe point!12-11 Woman Scorned
After rushing the field to celebrate our win, we come off to find Carleton setting up camp, ready to play out semis. With some nerves starting to build so did the wind, we cheered Northwestern and started to get ready for our next game.
Semifinals vs. Carleton:
As we took the line, we could see that Carleton has come to play. With numbers twice what they were in the fall, we were looking at a
much different team (Anna Snyder even had the same colored cleats on this time). Right out of the chute, Carlton took the lead. The wind took its toll on our throws and it appeared as though we hadn't seen wind in 4 months (weird). Syzgy took half at 8-3 and Woman Scorned took advantage of this time to recoup and clear our heads. With a little more dedication to team defense, Scorned was able to fight back and get on a run. D list included Chelle, Daisy, Jiear, Cassie, Jazz, Mag, Pesch, Bosco, and Lauren. Although we fought hard, with an absolutely RIDIC backwards D from Jazz, our efforts only pulled the score to 8-13 when Carleton took the game. Their zone trap proved to be too strong for our offense and the forced turn overs were our downfall.8-13 Carleton.
After the devastating loss to our Regionals competition, we headed to field three- our first game on a new field-to get ready for a rematch with Emory.
Consolations vs. Emory:
With spirits running low and winds still strong, Emory came out to seek revenge. WS allowed a 3 point run before deciding to put a couple on the board. As Emory worked to advance their lead to 2-5, Woman Scorned took a gut check and decided this was still our game. With some pumping up from our Coaches and captains, we took to the field determined to find our groove- and find it we did! Scorned hit a streak to take the game to half at 7-6, and after Dersch just told us to go dance it out for five minutes, we came back on the field ready to finish the game. With D's all around the table and a Callahan layout score from Stine, Scorned took the game, not allowing another score from Emory.
13-6 Woman Scorned.
Immediately after our win for 3rd, priorities were put in place as we utilized true team work to hoist a huge watermelon to the top of a 15 foot vertical wall with Stine. As she struggled against the wind to balance, Jiear-time ran to the car to grab the camera. With a victory/battle cry, the watermelon was released!
While third place didn't win us Patagonia shorts, we did get the opportunity to work out some kinks in our game in nice warm weather and we got to see some regionals competition. While the shorts would have been great, we decided Woman Scorned looks much better in skirts anyways.
The drive home went fairly smoothly. Despite a bit of fog near Des Moines, all of Woman Scorned made it home safely Sunday night- just in time to hit the books before our short week of pre-spring break class.
-Gapstur with the help of the stat book (sorry for the third person usage)
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