After seeing the learning curve at Grinnell, our brilliant captains decided to write history and go X/Y (for the first time ever) to Exit 69. Woman Scorned split up into teams of only 9 girls and faced the competition head on! Although we were separated by several fields and a hill, our hearts still beat together and both teams fought their games hard.
Team X-treme ended their Saturday with only one loss against Saucy Nancy, while Team Yoink (the team I was on, so I actually remember things about games) finished out 4-0 with wins over Eclipse, Freya, Syzygy, and Saucy Nancy. Although we were only 9 strong, both teams fought like we had a full team, and offensive flow and defensive cohesiveness were incredible!
The Hoistad family was kind enough to host us that weekend. They were wonderful hosts and we were once again reminded that Hoistad's mom is, in fact, like 10 times cooler than Wastey herself.
Sunday play started off great right away. Although there was a lot of confusion with the brackets and who played who, conclusions were agreed upon and X-treme ended up playing Yoink in semis. Team X won the game while Saucy battled Syzygy on their home ground. In a close game, Syzygy took the final point and the victory putting them against our combined full squad in the finals. Team X-treme Yoinkers was on fire from the get go. With sick puts from the handlers, insane grabs by cutters, and surprises all around from the rookies, Scorned took a strong lead. Although injuries started to plague us and Syzygy fought back fiercely, Scorned didn't slow down. With amazing grabs by Jessy and unreal D's by Becca, we took the game and our first tournament win of the season.
Highlights: Winning the tourney, winning games with 9 girls, getting to play a lot, someone on the other team yelling "wtf?? who was on goldilocks" when Annihka scored, Cami's awesome PUB gift to Jessy, playing quarters and semis on a field that had half of the end zone dropping off into the woody abyss, and Hoistad's mom refusing to let me study.
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