Leaving Ames for No Wisco, I remember thinking that there was no way that the weekend would live up to how excited I was for it. Fortunately, I was proved wrong. Feeling overwhelmed by school, I prepared myself for a nice 5 hour drive filled with head phones and studying. As I was sitting there like a good student learning about how low manganese causes tetany, BAMB! ... We killed Bambi :(.
Thankfully, Cassie's trucker-like driving skills saved all of our lives and no one was hurt, plus the car was still drivable. We pulled over and did the whole "cops come to write up a report" thing which took a while. In the mean time, we met some really nice neighbors. After the cop taped our bumper back on (with some duct tape Becca had conveniently just bought at a gas station), we got in our cars ready to make the rest of the trip! ....however, that was not possible because Annichode left her lights on and killed her battery. The first thought was, "No biggie, two cars here, we will just jump it!" However, on second thought, we didn't have jumper cables and even if we did, Cassie's hood was crunched shut. Soooo we went to find the neighbors who pulled up in a huge pickup decked out in Dolphins fan gear to save the day-except they couldn't figure out how to pop the hood so the cop came back and figured that out. IT WAS A MESS! Finally, we got back on the road and had a fairly uneventful rest of the drive.
Saturday games started out great, although it was a little chilly. As the weather warmed up, so did our game AND our cheers. We themed the day's team spirit cheers after Kary Perry songs and cheered each team with a unique cheer, in true WS tradition. Scorned played hard and came together as a team well. Our pool play games were against North Park (13-0), MN-Duluth (13-1), WI-Milwakee (13-3), and Ohio-Wesleyan (13-5). Lauren and Keiser were guest sideline appearances and made the tourney that much better!
The party at No Wisco was great. There was dancing, flip cup, socializing, running around the hotel, and one of the teams (I think WI-Milwakee???) even a small boat race. While Bosco, Top Model and a few others snatched some Patagonia gear, we did not win team jerseys this year. Having our lucky charm, Britt "money" Schenk, studying abroad this Fall was very detrimental to our winning streak. Thankfully, she will be back soon along with a few other world travelers, just in time for spring season!
Sunday we started off our first game against our good friends on SOL (fun fact: this blog was actually started because of their request last year). To make the game even better, Coach Thug (Martha Harris) and Coach Anna Hettler decided to cleat up and show their skills on the field. Both teams traded points as we heckled each other up and down the field. In the end, Scorned tightened our line a little and took the victory (13-10) to advance to quarters. Quarters was against the Ninja's of the University of Minnesota. The wind picked up significantly in this game and WS got the privilege of playing some zone offense. WS kept cool and finished the game 10-5. Semis brought us up against an old regional competitor, Bella Donna from UW-Madison. With a lot of new faces among many familiar ones, this team still brought their game to the field. BD took the lead from the start and although WS fought to take it back, we were unsuccessful. This was a great game with sick layouts, huge hucks, and bodies being thrown everywhere. (8-13)
Highlights: Hitting Bambi, meeting the Dolphin fans, meeting the cute police officer, sneaking into the hot tub, Taco Bell run to get 25 tacos, Lauren's Fun Fetti cookies, "inverse bookends", the f-word game, icing Reebs, making up new cheers for every team, rookie lines, "shots for drops," red-on-red, playing ultimate.
Lowlights: Killing Bambi, not winning team jerseys, Annihka's name being called to win this hat but she was peeing, getting lost a lot.
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