UCL 1s Final score 8-1. (Lose)
Our first match in the tournament and as a team was against UCL 1s. We
knew this was going to be a tough match. As it was windy we thought it
was best to use our brownie D. Zone is what Thrown is famous for and
its something which the club has worked on hard in the run up to
regionals. Our D looked good and kept this 1st trying to find gaps in
it. Our D slowed the pace a lot and due to a turnover near their
endzone, Caz swung the disc to Alex, who then sent it to Jessie in the
endzone and got our point for this match.
LSE 1s Final Score 11-0 (Lose)
This match proved very tough. We had already realised our D had proven
itself against a 1st team of UCL?s calibre but LSE with their
experienced handlers managed to move the disc around a lot more which
tired our 8-man side so gaps started to appear and they profited from
this. Their handling was second to none which our D counldn?t answer.
Sadly, but predictably, this was a poorly spirited match from LSE.
They broke down our moral and didn?t even have the decency to do a
call once the match was over. Not how you should treat any second team
starting off in a new sport. This left our spirits low. Not a frame of
mind we wanted to take in to our next match.
Roehamptam 1s. Final Score 8-4 (win)
We didn?t know what to expect for RUF. We brought our Brownie zone
from the last two matches and it worked perfectly against RUF. We had
already found which positions the team worked best in and decided to
work on this. Jessie and Taddie played chase tireslessly, Sam and
Casbo in the cup, not letting anything through, Me and Ed and Adam
were out on the wings, stopping their swing, and Alex long with his
amazing acrobatic Ds! We only had one player to rest during the points
so it was a fantastic effort by everyone to give every point 100% so
RUF couldn?t break our Zone. Our O started to look really good. With
Alex, Casbo, Me and Ed taking turns on the hanlding we soon worked to
disc up to get our 8 point score line. Awesome match and great-spirit
from RUF.
Sublime 2s. Final Score 11-5 (win)
With the sweet taste of victory from our last match (a rare thing on
the first day) we went into the next match on a high. We knew this was
going to be tough match. Sublime 2s had a large squad. We started the
match well and took the lead. Our brownie started to frustrate them
and their frequent squad changes meant they never got grips with how
to break down our D. Our O started to really come together. We were
making some excellent cuts, the stack was looking very neat and we
started to try out come new handlers. Jessie, Ed and Caz were looking
confident now as handlers and we?re moving the disc a lot. This
started to frustrate Sublime 2 and turned the match sour. We had them
pinned in their endzone with Jessie?s and Taddie?s great chasing and
Sam?s and Casbo?s faultless cup. We could have taken loads of Callahan
points against them if only I had remembered to tell them about this
rule, and once I had if Taddie had caught them instead of D-ing them!
This upset some of their players and a few were calling fouls on
anything and everything. Even when we were down to Ironman due to
Casbo?s injury they coulnd?t break our zone and it was a fanatastic
effort from a very tired team and we managed to hard-cap them before
the claxton! Irrispective of the 11-5 hard-cap, their captain still
claimed it would have gone to a draw! An excellent end to a brilliant
day of Frisbee. Then we made our way to Ho-down! Yeeehaw!
Day 2:
Mowhawkes 2s 4-3. (win!!!!!!!) 12-13 Seeded match
After a fanastic party and our efforts at line dancing (thanks
Kaleigh, Jessie, Ed Evans, Tim) a distant memory, we woke to find
ourselves seeded 12th from our previous days work. This was fanastatic
but we had to work to keep our seed. Our first match was against
Mohawkes 2s. If we won this we would have earnt our place to be the
top of the second teams.
The wind had dropped and this worried us as our proven brownie was
more effective with the wind. Nevertheless, we snatched 2 points
quickly to take the lead. They had then figured out how to get past
our brownie. This game became a game of long discs, most of which
we?re brought down by Alex, Ed and Adam working up field. 3 found
their way through and Mohawkes 2 took the lead. The score 3-2. Just
before the Claxton and with me watching from the sidelines, Thrown 2
picked up their game when they needed to the most. This point seemed
to go on forever and with fanastic efforts from everyone, we clawed it
back to 3-3. The Claxton had gone during this point, which meant it
was first to 4?. next point wins and takes 12th seed. We started on D,
we quickly turned the match down thanks to our awesome chasers and
great cup. The disc then found its way down field really quickly.
Mohawkes 2 couldn?t stop it and Jessie had found space to take the
point. We had done it! We had earned our place to be top of the second
teams.
Surrey 1s 11-0 (Lose) 12-5 Seeded match.
Thanks to our success we had made the rest of our day of Frisbee hard.
We had to play against high-seeded teams, as we had at the beginning
of day one. Shattered after our last match we kept this team at bay.
The score didn?t reflect at how hard we had worked at D and how this
match went to the full 45 minutes. Unfortunately their hanlders were
too much for us to match.
Kent 1s. 8-3 (lose) 12-9 Seed match.
With the wind on their side Kent quickly took the first point. But
thanks to some great lineside support from Thrown 1 (which you had
done for all our matches) we came back to take the lead 2-1 and looked
as if we were going to take 9th seed from them. The game for both
teams turned into huck and D. Kent?s hanlder (Gladys) had a great huck
and even with Alex?s tirless efforts in the endzone bringing these
down, some got through and Kent took the lead. This match was the
best-spirited match of the whole tournament and it was much closer
then the score showed. It was great fun playing against Kent 1s which
left us with one more chance to improve our seed.
Last match ? Hu 1s 11-3 (lose) 12-11 Seed match.
Shattered after a long tournament and desperate for a pint we were up
against the host?s 1st team. Holloway started very well. They answered
our D by moving things up the line and with long hucks. They quickly
took a strong lead. We started to change things around with our D.
With Adam long and Ed on the wing they took down so many of their long
hucks. This meant on O we tried to do the same with the great solid
hanlding from Jessie, Ed, Casbo and Alex and grabs from Sam, Adam and
Taddie we worked it up the pitch and earnt everyone of the three
points, even though their number 57 tried to unjustifiably take them
off us by trying to claim we were out. A fanastic effort against
another first team and we finished the tournament with our heads held
high.
Everyone on our 8-man squad had to play his or her hearts out this
tournament to achieve what we had achieved. You should be proud of
yourselves that you played the best Frisbee the club has ever seen for
a second team. Well-done Guys!
This will be the last time I take a second team to Outdoor Regionals
and I would like to thank every one of you from Thrown 2 and Thrown 1
for making it such an awesome Tournament. For as long as I?ve been at
Thrown, this is the best the club has ever done at a Regional
Tournament.