Coffee Cup, B team

For the first tournament appearance of Harvard "Breadline" BRadline, It is a delightful surprise that Roh "Roh" did not oversleep and 
delay the team. It is unfortunate that he did not attend the tournament. What actually delayed the team was the non-appearance of the 
ubercaptain Will "Awesome" Chen '06, who showed up smelling of alcohol and not quite knowing why he was up (happy birthday Will) after a 
long conversation with Adam and Jimmy on the phone that was not quite in any comprehensible language (maybe it was Lisp). But with these 
trifles out of the way, only a sleepy three hour ride that the freshmen will soon be accustomed too separated the eager #1-seeded Bredline
from the quaint fields of Safety School.


The freshmen wished to depart only a few seconds after exiting the doors of the cars, only now realizing that they are in New England. It 
takes a year to learn, I suppose, but knowing that the cars were not going back by themselves, the freshmen started their endzone drills, 
ready to fire up against the other four teams in the tourney under the guidance of last-minute appointed captain Jimmy "Who Captains" 
Jingaling Sun.


The spoiled A-team who did not need to come until much later due to their rank-1 seeding from probably having appeared in some tiny 
tournament called "Nationals" (GO REDLINE) were probably imbibing alcohol or making merry elsewhere as a continuation play to Will's 
birthday celebrations. This included the strong backbone of last year's Bredline (AJ, Dan, Gabe, Aaron, Jie. . . good luck with the 
A-team) and a handful of freshmen which will be investments for the future of the team. The B-team was unfazed, for when Y. "Y.Z." Z. has 
to step up as second-handler, there is no place to go but up, and this was the opportunity for new and old members the team to really 
coordinate.


The first game started offright against Brandeis-B, who came out decently strong but soon had their spirits drenched - not by the 
uninvited downpour but by the fierce "no soup for you" attitude of the BRedline. Jimmy "Who throws Push-passes???" Sun had no problems 
handling the disc in this weather, and moved it up smoothly through the points with some freshmen getting good experience on handling such
as Parth "not Roh", and Jue "not a Jew".  Eli "tall" Sevenson-Falk really stepped up as a defensive presence, with quick D's, elegant 
grabs, and successful catches in the endzone. Mark "the next Gabe" established his the-next-Gabeness with also being very tall in this 
game. Worth noting was that he was harassed by an asian dude that poaches, but only after one lesson from Will "Josh McCarthy without hat"
Chen, he adapted and took advantage of the dude to convert a score. Go freshmen. Nate "not Bernard", John "not Barkett" B., and Prahbas 
"Piranha?" all show good fundamentals and cutting sense. Anyway, we won 13-7, even with some dubious decisions to go Zone-D, which the 
freshman have never actually done. This will eventually prove useful.


Next up was our once and eternal enemy, Tufts-B. As A.J. "Not B.J." Johnston claimed, our goal was to not make them ever want to touch the
disc again, as we probably did last year destroying them. This year looked a little different, for they had good athletism and a couple of
decent handlers. Making several mistakes, Bredline watched as three points slipped by. We quickly catch up a point, but it was quickly 
gained back by Tufts. Many exchanges later, we find ourselves dangling at 5-7 with Tufts-B taking half. The spirit was also not positive 
this game, with Eli calling lots of. . . stuff and Adam "ARR" Kapor going psycho ready to kill at times. But this is Tufts, so it is good.
We trade points for the longest time ever, with a ridiculous point capping the game at 9-8. Jimmy, after some questionable decisions 
earlier, steps up and manuevers the disc with Eli, Dan, and the freshmen up the field for a long 9-9 tie. Just as the two teams discuss if
soft caps were win by two or one, the hard cap sounds and it is universe point. A strong line containing all returners and a couple of 
freshmen get up, fired, only to see Dan "also tall" Gale do a perfect point block on the Tufts-B handler - only to have the huck deflected
up and home to a tall Tufts person. We bite our lips and shake hands with Tufts. We will have another chance soon.


INTERLUDE - We get a byenessness. Harvard Redline plays around with Fordham. Jie "Small man with a big Game" Tang gets run over by some 
guy who obviously thinks he was Grant "Bruiser" Darcy - but HA JIE STILL HAS THE DISC and so he goes out with glory, replaced by an even 
smaller man Chuck "tiny man with a huge game" Lei that craftily schools Fordham in the art of passing five inches off the ground. We also 
notice among other things a huge miss-then layout grab by Aaron "Who Lays Out?", the pure awesomeness of that new guy named Joey, and 
overall a very strong A-team that will soon win, quite easily, all four of their games.


Our third game is against Yale, who just lost in universe point against Dartmouth. We lost against Tufts, and we were not going to lose 
again. This time, we score the first three points with vigor. Doug "Spirit" and Parth continue to contribute as handlers, the former with 
good transition offense in general and the latter with a great endzone-grab over one of the Yale handlers. Chris "Moneymaker" M. 
demonstrated some great D. as well in this game and the next one, pumped up after the Tufts loss with great cuts and D's. Of course, we 
don't even need to mention Kapor, who was frequently a go-to man cleaning up everything in the endzone.We will give Yale credit - they are
tenacious. It is universe point again at 8 - 8, but we clean it up in the endzone and get the final point (I think Kapor was involved, but
forget details, sorry).


The final game was against Dartmouth, when Jimmy volunteered to go whites and make everyone else change so he could put his whites in 
action. We also overheard someone say "told you, all smart schools call 'same' when you flip discs" and the retort "that's because you 
aren't flipping correctly". That was hilarious. Anyway. We fire up from the momentum to a 5-1 lead, and basically keep it there. We also 
went Zone-O several times, and good handling from the handlers and wings successfully moved the disc downfield even though we had never 
before practiced as a team. Furthermore, we even threw a few zones of our own, with Doug, Kapor, and Eli doing great cups. Noted are good 
defense from freshman Louis "tall Asian" and a really quick reflex turn-around D from Eli, who continued to contribute great defense to 
the Bredline. They pull close, about 7-4 when we took half, but never got much closer when we take the game from them, by then the A-team 
had already finished cleaning up.


Finis.


-Y.Z.