league night...

season wrap up will follow shortly...
we played the ony undefeated team tonight: we had one loss, the night i wasn't there, and we came out lucky. my preference, in an upwind downwind game, is to protect the breaks, so take decent long shots down wind, avoid anything that might turn it over on our own goal line...

we have 2 games every thursday from here on out. since that immediatly follows a HS practice, and i was tired after playing, and running mile repeats yesterday, i was significantly less than enthusiastic... but i went.

we had tons of turnovers RIGHT on our goal line, even my first flat out, breadbasket drop of the while, but i think we protected the break on that one... i played 18/19 points, had an actual layout block, and on game point, 1 hand block and 2 solid pieces that caused 1 turnover, and should have got at least one more... but we gave it up. bummer.

the lowlight, other than the drop... my team mate throws the first pass to me, it hangs, i circle under it, i'm stationary, i hear the d running down, i jump straight up, catch it, and get PLOWED by a current or recent grad U of O player... i get up, and said something loud, and profane. he said, i shit thee not, 'but i'm not contesting the foul.' i'd love to see video. basically, a player sprints 70 yards, and tackles the punt returner. i'm pretty sure this is discouraged in ultimate, and the other teams reaction was priceless... i get levelled, their reaction is, 'whoa luke, don't get so fired up, it was an accident.
truly, i went straight up, from a position i'd held for a full second.' irritating. there was also the full complement of lame complaining, etc... i pretty much just yawned my way through it...

but, given my lackluster mindset going in, i played pretty well, my ho' d was legit, i had to actually make some diving catches and stuff, stopped some goals up high in the endzone... ran better than i thought i would...

still, sore, tight calf, tight hams... we won the second game 11-9, and i took 2 points off that game... i played like 5 hours of ulti today... too much..

so we're probably in 4th of 8. for the tournament, if it's run under normal competetive guidelines, it might be worth our while to move up to 3rd to make a slightly easier quarter... but the 4 semi teams have all beaten each other, and the past 3 years when i won (granted as a captain, different from this year) normal competetive guidelines were out the door, (ex, last year, as the 2 seed in a 9 team tourney, the pools were 1,7,9... 2,4,5... and 3,6,8... so we played 5,4,3,and 1 to reach the tourney... i'm not sure, but i think that's no particular type of legit 'snake'... so, anyway, i'm not too worried about it...

later...