From hermes.cam.ac.uk!ms223 Fri Mar 28 14:43:13 1997
To: frisbee@mrao.cam.ac.uk
From: ms223@cam.ac.uk (Mindy Sobota)
Subject: Indoor Nationals Report
Cc: walden@bbn.com

Sorry about all the mail.  Last item for this week:

        We drove to Edinbburgh and made up a tuneful and topical call along
the way.  We stayed with Stuart Sneeeky.  We played very badly in our first
two games against Shrub (a gang of good players from Oxford), and Dynamo
hamsters. It was pretty bad.  I dropped a pull as well as 3 or 4 other
discs.  Jimmer had a colision with a hamster and a wall and did in his knee
so that he left the tournament for good.  Sorry, J!
        The next game was much better, as we lost to Blue Arse Flies with
dignity, playing well, just not well enough.  Then we played spiffingly to
take Mud Culture convincingly for the last game of Saturday.  Highlights of
Saturday's play include BAF beating the pants off  Shrub, top seeds in the
pool.  Merrick was really pumped for the match, and just did everything for
BAF end-to-end, D-ing and scoring in the air repeatedly against Lee and
Dell (of the Monks).  A great game to watch.
        A good chinese meal, a good party and the late show of Star Wars
for some SBs made SAt night a good one.  See Star Wars.
        Sunday 9:00 AM against Sneeekys.  Our team play was getting better
and better and we had a really good match, eventually winning in Sudden
DEath.  A Key point block by Graham and a layout D by me kept things
interesting in the last 2 points.
        Then we played Phat 'Eds in the lovely, big, wooden-floored gym,
and lost by a few.   I think we played better Ultimate than them most of
the time, but we couldn't score!  The large size of the hall lead us to
throw just a bit big... and at least 6 open scoring opportunities were met
with throws that were just too high, or too far, or just out. Frustrating,
because we were really playing as a team, and because our D was much better
than theirs.
        We met the Hamsters again and this time gave them the game we
should have done yesterday.  Lost in sudden death, but we played good, TEAM
ultimate.
        Same again against Lurkers, lost in sudden death despite great,
energetic play and tight D.

        I really liked how team-oriented our play was after our disasterous
beginning.  No one really played a starring role, we did it TOGETHER.
 Dora got free for the score again and again.    There was Solid cutting
and handling all weekend from Natalie, Nathan, Ico, Mindy, and Francis.
After the first three games we did much better at stacking far from the
disc and clearing out quickly.  Everybody scored, I think.

The event was really well organized and the venue was good. Spirit was
excellent in every game we played and was noticaebly good in the final
between UTI (who, it should be noted, made it to the final with a woman
playing as much as anyone else) and Druids.  The streaker was skinny but
still good looking, despite the paper bag over his head.  Sneeekys were
great hosts and Edinburgh was of course beautiful.
        It took us only seven hours to drive home (empty roads) including a
lovely, hour-long stop in Durham for pizza and sightseeing.

 Mindy and I may never play indoor Ultimate again.  It's been fun.

Thanks SB!

Oh, we came in 16th in the country in indoor Ultimate Frisbee.  Something
to proud of, I think!  We also played more women more of the time than any
other club there.  Go mixed-gender Strange!

See you outdoors!
Luke

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