Entries this day: ultimate

ultimate

2:02pm CDT Saturday 13 May 2000

Great ultimate game today. The field made play a bit tricky; the grass was wet, but the ground was all hard and full of cleat-ruts. Some suggested it was like broken concrete covered in ice.

When play began, each team only had 6 players. Then at the same moment, each team had 1 more player arrive. Seven players on the field is the norm, so we all played and neither team had subs. (This style of play (no substitutes) is called savage, or in this case savage seven.)

We quickly scored 2 points, and they quickly began scoring as well. For the first half, they were consitently 1 or 2 points behind us. We went into the half with a score of 7-5. Neither team had taken their time out.

Points began taking longer after the half, and we were tied 10-10 when the referees announced "soft cap." (Soft cap = the game is over when a team reaches 2 more points than the current high score.) At the same time, we (or they; I'm not sure) called time out. Time out was short, and when we re-entered the field, ref announced that hard cap begins in 3 minutes (hard cap=next point wins). The point took longer than 3 minutes, and we scored it. 11-10, we barely won.

All my offensive plays were good. I never dropped the disc when catching, and in one amazing (for me) catch, one-hander over my head, I caught it for a point!

Defensively, I was a tad slower than the guy (Corey) I covered most of the game. He made some good cuts and got the disc a lot.

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Next weekend is the finals in the tournament. Schedule and location will be announced on Wednesday.

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