No Wisconsequences (Team Y)

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No Wisconsequences Write-Up Illinois – Y aka wYse guys

You’ll have to forgive my forgetfulness when it comes to the breakdown of scores for some of these games, my focus was on winning not the twists and turns along the way

Round 1 – Carleton College GOP

Twas a cold morning to start the day, with what was potentially the best match up of the day for a split squad Illinois team. We came out slow in the first half and GOP took the half by a healthy margin. Second half we decided we should probably play harder and stop being intimidated by their facial hair. Besides, everyone in Minnesota has a fuzzy sweater in order to survive the winter, see Austin Lien.

Final Score – GOP 13 – 8 Illinois Y

Round 2 – Wisconsin La-Crosse

The day was began warming up and still there really wasn’t that much wind involved. La-Crosse seemed to be a relatively new team that was still learning the finer points of college level ultimate and as a result we were able to use our rookies a bit more than usual because of the experience similarities. Some highlights include Neal jumping over a cluster of dudes to come down with some discs and the beginning of the rookie remodel as I would like to refer to it. It’s when we take the boys and make them men, get dirty, lay out, and go nuts

Final Score – Illinois Y 11 – 9 Wisconsin La Crosse

Round 4 – Iowa State X

The dumb game of the day, at some point in time we decided that playing a full game was a bad idea. We came out super fired up from our BYE and smacked ISUC around, but after the half they found heart and we couldn’t maintain our edge throughout. We were able to take advantage of one of the most epic mismatches of all time with Pappy J being on the field, against anyone on their team, while Sid realized that boostability was high and started throwing some major bombs.

Final Score – Iowa State X 13 – 11 Illinois Y

Round 6 – Illinois State Y

Don’t get me wrong, I heart the guys on Illinois States team, but we have prided ourselves as having a better program then them, and I haven’t ever lost to an ISU team. That said, we came fired up out of the gate. We took half 7 – 2 and never looked back through the rest of the game. I hate to toot my own horn, but a dropped Callahan layout around a dude off the pull would have ended the game if I wasn’t such a skinny white boy upon hitting the ground. Balls. Also, got to see Tom and Splash have some wicked bids and there may or may not have been a cross field scoober for a score courtesy of Mickey

Sunday saw a frost delay to start the rounds. WTF polo fields, really? I mean, really? Now that that’s off my chest, the rest of the day went swimmingly for Illinois Y

Round 2 – Lawrence University

These were a bunch of cool dudes that like to play ultimate. Once the stretching marathon was completed, the first time, we were able to pretty much have our way with Lawrence and our offense finally began to click while the defense made got some breaks that helped boost everyone’s confidence. I can’t remember much else about this one, but if anyone from Lawrence ever reads this, I’ll trade jerseys for one of those sick buddy jerseys. Believe it

Final Score – Illinois Y 13 – 6 Lawrence

Round 3 – Ohio Wesleyan

In what might have been the most intimidating game that had the least actual excitement, Illinois Y was able to beat Ohio Wesleyan. We were able to beat a team that has made regionals at least once during the time that I’ve been playing ultimate. With the exception of travel call guy, the entire team was pretty cool too, which is always a bonus.

Final Score – Illinois Y 13 – 10(ish) Ohio Wesleyan

Round 4 – Northern Iowa

This is probably the most excited game for me the entire weekend, except my buddy who plays from high school wasn’t at the tournament to heckle. This is another team that made regionals the past year, and I felt that we were able to compete with them very well. There were a couple instances of miscues on the field, but on the whole it went well and I was pleased with the outcome.

Final Score – Illinois Y 13 – 7 Northern Iowa

I want to say great job to all the rookies who went, for both teams, and those of us who served as the surrogate captains were very impressed with the way you guys improved over the tournament.

Rookie MVP – Neal Phelps / Mark de Chadenedes. Both these guys got on the field and were able to do a great job, whether it was playing tough D or tooling fools on O, they both were able to execute throughout the weekend.