The Illini’s trip to Columbus turned out to be fairly disappointing. Since I don’t want my last tournament post to be filled with bad memories, I’m only going to focus on the good things. The team headed down a few days early to get away from distractions. I had a few things to take care of at home after graduation, so I missed the free tuscani pasta from Pizza Hut that Zubair bought for the team. Apparently, I didn’t miss much as most of the team found the dish to be less than tasty.
We played Carleton for our first game on the showcase field. The score claims a pretty dismal performance on our part, but the Illini had their moments. Well, maybe it was only one moment, but Noah caught a Callahan. That’s a pretty big moment.
After a two hour bye, we faced Georgia. Alas, throughout my entire college career, I have never won a game against Georgia. I think this picture depicts our best moment against them. Way to go FOTY. “What is Kennedy standing on?” “The crushed hopes and dream of number 17.”
We had an early morning start against UCSB on day two. Jeff Silverman is good.
Tufts and us was probably one of the best pool play games to happen all weekend. We were fortunate enough to play on field 1 again and draw a large crowd. We were unfortunate in the fact that we lost 15-14. Still, we started to look like the team that won the Great Lakes.
Even though we lost all our pool play games, we still had a shot at winning 9th place. Minnesota quickly ended that dream. The best part of this game was the fact that Mike Gerics was one of the observers. He likes to keep the game moving, which I appreciate, but he also likes to draw attention to himself, which I do not appreciate. Still, he is a rather animated and entertaining fellow.
After losing 5 straight games, the Illini had to get in their cars and head to the far fields in order to battle Ugmo for 17th place. The Illini “did not go quietly into that good night”. Dan, adorning a yellow “verb” headband, played out of his mind. Wildcard had three layout D’s this game. He also defended against the huck by knocking the disc out of the receiver’s reach at least twice. Sick. We won the game 15-11.
There are no trophies given out for 17th place, but there is a trophy for the spirit award. After each game, opponents rate each other on a scale of 1 to 5 on how well the opposing team knew and followed the rules. The Illini had the highest score all weekend. “We got spirit yes we do! And that’s it.”
I have a few more posts coming before I finally sign off and turn the blog over to Sid, Kennedy, and Austin, so stay tuned…
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