Well....it happened, I have my made regionals for the second time in my five year college career and I couldn't be happier. For all of you who play, or played on teams who never even had to worry about making regionals, don't take it for granted. So sectionals happened this past weekend in Maple Plain and here is a brief write up of what transpired....
Game 1: UMD vs St Thomas B
This game was never really going to be a game. UST-B was full of young guys who are new to the game, but at least they have a B team, its good experience for those guys who normally wouldn't get any playing time at sections. This game was under control the whole time and we got to get everyone PT, ended up rolling the game in about 45 minutes, UMD wins 15-0.
Game 2: UMD vs Hot Karls
The Carleton-B team, kind of, there's CUT, GOP, then Hot Karls. We had this game under control as well getting to rest our studs. They have some talent, and you can tell that some of them played on the fall CUT team because the kid who was marking me basically was trying to hug me on the mark and I called foul. I made a comment to him and he replied, "yeah I played on fall CUT they teach you to do that before stall 6". So now I have evidence that CUT tells their players to cheat. Not like I really care anyways. I think they score two points the whole game, after their first point they throw the disc as a blade about 50 feet in the air and let it hit the ground. Their second goal the guy spikes it at Smergs' feet, then throws it in the air. So Smergs, now pissed off, runs back to the line and goes let me score Im spiking the fuck out of it at someone. Smergs goes deep, Jeff puts it to him, and Smergs jumps in the air, catches the disc and immediately whips it at the feet of his trailing defender before he lands hahaha. It should have been a turnover but he argued his way out of it, then some kid on their team started yelling about don't spike it, and I screamed back calling them out on their shitty spikes and was promptly held back by LT. UMD wins 15-2.
Game 3: UMD vs. St Olaf
This was the biggest game of the year for us. St Olaf was the number one seed in our pool and 3 seed overall. We keep the lines tight and play our starting 7 line for alot of the game, Myself, Trosvig, Yossi at handles and Creature, Smergs, Lane and LT as cutters. We come out of the gates hot, easily scoring on O then breaking upwind. They score their O point but then we come back and score ours with ease, then break again going up 4-1. They take a timeout and recoop, and go on a three point run to tie it at 4's. We go up 5-4, they tie it up again, then we run three and take half 8-5. After the half they go on a little run again but we never trailed the entire game. The game was 12-10 with the soft cap on, add one, and we score our O point and win the game 13-10. Taking the one seed in our pool, putting us up against the two seed from pool D, GOP.
Quarters: UMD vs GOP
We have a history with this team, stemming back to last years sections where GOP went winless on Sunday after making semis, losing to UMD in the game to go to regions. And we have played them about 4 or 5 times this year beating them on all occasions. Some times the games tend to get a little chippy between us, and thats what happens at the beginning, and Sean from GOP calls everyone out telling everyone to chill out. I think they were just pissed that we started the game 5-0. We are able to open up the lines a bit and get some other people PT while our starting line gets to rest. We keep our starting line in every downwind point to make sure they are scored, and throw us in on a few D points here and there. But everyone else played their role great and ran off a few breaks on GOP, we eventually win easily 15-7 I think.
SUNDAY
Semis: UMD vs Minnesota
I think our team was kind of intimidated at first about playing a better opponent. We had great open looks for goals, and easy unders on the first few points of the game but we make drops or throws are just a little off and we can't convert. Minnesota goes up 7-0 to start, I think we relax a bit and are down at half 8-3. Once we were at this point we decided to save some of our starters again for our next time, we end up losing this one 6-15. But on a positive note I think we broke Minnesota's O line 4 times.
UMD vs St Johns
I'm already getting bored of writing, so we were in control of this game the entire time and never really let up. Throwing different types of d's at them, and taking their key players out of the game we easily win this one 15-6.
UMD vs Winona State
They come out playing well with their big athletic team. And we come out not playing so well, forcing dumb hucks and breaks rather than taking our time to dump and swing the disc. Fatigue is kind of hitting some of our cutters because silly drops are happening and we just aren't mentally in this game. We lose 5-15 or something like that.
4th place game: UMD vs St Johns
This game was pretty easy, just like the other one and we win 15-8, taking 4th in the section, and breaking seed by one.
It was a great weekend and I look forward to regionals this upcoming weekend. If I were to take a guess I would say we will be seeded somewhere between 9-12.
Becky
