Boomland's first tourney

Team Boomland had a very successful tourney this past weekend at Mardi Gras. Though Boomland finished with a less than flattering 2-4 record, they outscored opponents 62-59. Every game lost was lost by only 3 or less. This is quite impressive since this was the first major tournament of the season. Line calling was structured but loose, to keep 4 veterans on the field at a time while allowing the rookies to get much needed experience, which was the only thing that kept Boomland from being more successful. Everyone stepped up their game, and everyone had a shinning moments, from Kevin Hund gooning people and throwing sweet uplines for scores, to Summerfield getting open on 100% of his cuts, Loski catching 3 hammers (2 on stall 9, and 2 of them were for scores), or Austin seemingly having at least 2 Ds a game.
Boomland started out the weekend against the 1 seed in the pool, Auburn. Whether Auburn came out flat, or Boomland on fire, or a combination of both, Boomland actually took half only to let Auburn steal the W. Next was Tennessee which we had high hopes for, and we kept right with them, but they got away from us in the end. Same thing with Towson. All three of those teams couldn't beat our cup, but when we played man, we became even more unstoppable.
The game against Michigan State gave Boomland a great chance to work on things for the rest of the weekend. They were very much shorthanded, and got frustrated very quickly. The line calling on this game was very open, with mostly rookie lines.
Sunday held high hopes, but we became even more of a team. We started with Mississippi State, and in the first half we went down 2 breaks. In the second half we got one back and ended up losing 13-11. That was one of the most equal talented games of the weekend; however they could not keep up with our speed, and our ability to always force puddle. For some reason they actually wanted to keep their whites white. Kansas B was the next and last opponent and was a great way to end the weekend. The rookies got a lot of PT and Mark had a personal vendetta against them since he is from there. He gave quite a pump up speech at both the beginning and half time.

Other highlights:

- Somerfield hucking for like 10 scores

- Hidaka getting a sweet bid but ending up with only mud in his mouth

- Nascar finishing our tourney with a deep cut for the score

- Keenan having two lay out D's

- Jonnie Wego tackling a Towson guy before the disc even came to him

All in all, everyone picked up the intensity, came together, and had a great time.