No Wisconsequences 2012

Leaving Ames around 6:00pm Friday night, 14 WS ladies headed to Delafield WI, for 2012 No Wisconsequences.

The excitement of the tournament made it impossible to sleep in, that along with some confusion about our 11:45 start time landed us at the fields to watch ISUC X and Y dominate in their games.

The fury came early for scorned, getting 72 in a row in the “come to drill” during warm-ups, was definitely a great start to the day. The first game was vs. Minnesota and the ninjas started off super strong.  Scorned answered back to the intensity of Minnesota’s offense with some stellar defensive intensity. Mag had a sweet layout grab in the end-zone, Kate played out of her mind handler d, Kelly was playing perfect positioning on D, Anne was rocking the end-zone like always, and the communication on both offence and defense was way better than it has been at previous practices. Besides the few random rain storms, the weather stayed fairly nice during the game, and like always the Ninjas were spirited and super fun to play. They have so much talent and a lot of new upcoming players, and promise to be an exciting team to watch this season! (ws wins 10-5)

It wouldn’t be a WS tournament with out playing Saucy Nancy. WS was lucky enough to play one of their split squad teams during the second round. WS started off really strong with 3 or 4 quick fast breaks off of hucks and quick handler movement from Cassie, Kaira, Sam, Kate and Pesch, and props to Alyssa for her quick feet on both in and out cuts. Once again having a huge roster, Iowa was circling lots of new and veteran players through, and look to have a very deep roster for the upcoming season. Thanks to them for a very fun spirited game, as always, even our new players could feel the friendship and friendly rivalry between the two schools.

It warmed up significantly for the 3^rd and final game of the day vs. one of the split squad Bella Donna teams. After some quick fast break looks, Scorned started off with a run on the super talented Wisconsin team. Martha was a Defense machine, generating an insane amount of D’s and shutting her girl down.  Jing was playing shut down inside D, and Kelly (panda) was making strong solid cuts against the Wisconsin defense. Sara was making perfect endzone continue cuts all day, resulting in being a scoring machine for WS all day.

After games, Scorned headed to 5 guys, for some much needed dinner. After food, scorned went back to shower(thanks to ISUC for letting us use your rooms while you were gone), do homework, hangout in the hotel hallway, go to Goodwill and watch Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. Pesch even thought to get towels from the workout center, as not to disturb the understandably stressed out staff at the La Quinta.

Around 9 pm Scorned headed to the tournament party. Being the nice friendly ladies that we were, we gave 2 random ultimate guys a ride to the party in exchange for their raffle tickets. Our friends Justin and Clifford promised that it was no problem because they never win anything. Long story short, Clifford won the free jerseys, and did not give us the raffle ticket. It’s a sore subject, but Clifford from Duluth does not get rides anymore. Congrats to Sam (from Iowa) on winning team shorts for Saucy!! (so exciting)

After a fun night we, regrettably were woke up by ISUC shouting in the hallway that the tournament was cancelled for Sunday games because of water on the fields. Although we understand the situation it is still sad we didn’t get to play more games. Trying to make the best of it Scorned slept in and then went to Goodwill in Oconomowoc for some thrift store action. After an hour and fifteen minutes every person but one came out with a bag of new, clothes, shoes and even a dog harness for Tula! Nothing like a little retail therapy to get over the lack of games we got to play.

Overall it was a great day of play. Although jealous of all the teams that went split squad, the play by every Scorned member was awesome and its only the 2^nd tournament of the year. The rest of the fall will be spent working on more fundamentals, and getting ready for our first annual home tournament featuring 11 other teams from around the Midwest! Lucky for us we are going to have a ton of great competition gathering in Ames for our tournament the first weekend in November.

We are excited to play:

Iowa

Wisconsin

Minnesota (X,Y)

Wisconsin-Lacrosse

Wisconsin –Whitewater

College of St. Benedicts

Iowa State Alumn

Carlton College

Grinell College

Drake

There is some great competition coming to Ames for this weekend. All these teams have confirmed. Although we are still taking bids for interested teams!

$150 bid, free housing, tournament party (need I say more)

Contact wscapts@iastate.ed for more information!