HMF Log: 10/24/04

The B Team went to the Wheaton College sponsored "Lemony Fresh" Tournament 
on Saturday.  Much to the surprise of everyone that was involved, the 
tournament was not at wheaton, but at a park in Rhode Island, completely 
unrelated to wheaton . . . . go figure.

We had a first round bye, assembled at 8 at kirkland, 13 guys, 2 cars, but 
cramped space was not all that was instore for the bred line on that 
drive.  We decided to play Bottacheli to keep our mind off of our cramping 
legs, unfortunately for us, this game managed to keep Jimmy Sun's mind off 
of the road.  Lets thank gabe for pointing out that we were on 95 NORTH, 
instead of South, or else jimmy might have taken us to Bowdoin.

Half the team, driven by AJ, got there on time and got ready to play 
savage, Jimmy's car finally arrived with a few minutes to warmup for a game 
against fordham.  The day is cold and dam windy, making zones and turns 
very likely for all teams.  We find out that not only is Wheaton's 
tournament no where near wheaton but games are to be played to 11 and are 
apparently going to be capped entirely to quickly.

The game begins, we come out a little flat, didn't deal with Fordham's zone 
to well, making poor throws and poor grabs.  They take half 6 - 1.  Teddy 
Chestnut delivers a fiery halftime shout and we come out with much more 
intensity.  The Bredline begins to play the way we know we can and cut the 
deficit to 7 - 5.  Then the bullshit sets in, our game is capped, game to 
8, the score a cheap one, and somehow the bredline is down a game while 
only giving up 8 points.  Too bad for our cold first half but after our 
late run we know are hungry for more

Our next game is against Roger Williams college.  This team played a split 
stack offense, which works well for them.  They have a very nasty handler, 
Teddy "red sleeves" something (Apparently hes knows our Eric and wants me 
to say hi, Hi eric), His left forehands and sick high release backhands 
give RW and early lead.  We make some small runs they answer back and forth 
until 10 - 7.  At this we really start to play.  The next three points take 
about 45 minutes and all of our energy,  we pull it to 10 - 9 and play a 20 
minute 20th point.  Incedibly the point ends by a steve koren hammer to 
Gabe (?).  What a huge point.  The last point is another douzy, though we 
manage to get a couple turns they manage to put in their 11th point.  Hats 
off to RW, they were a great bunch of guys and played very hard.  Great 
fucking game for us, huge comeback, sick D, chilly O, RW guys were getting 
injured left and right, we kept our cool.

RW next plays Fordham and is promptly spanked because they are so dam 
tired.  We play trinity college, more fucked up tournament rules, this game 
is a lightning round scheduled for 30 minutes.  They come out and get 2 
points on us, we answer with one of our own.  Without getting into this too 
much . . . they (mostly 2 of their players) are dicks.  This fact is agreed 
upon by the other teams in our pool.  Words are exchanged, after their 
player is covered like a rug by skoren, decides to slow up after the 
handler looks him off, while slowing up gets tangled with steve and gets 
pissed off about it.  lets leave it at that.  This game is capped at 5, yes 
5 points, we lose 5 - 3.  It was shorter than an IM game, but somehow it 
counts.

At this point we are a little pissed about the fact that we have only had 
one semi full game but are still happy about our intensity.  Everyone is 
playing extremely hard at this point.  Our freshmen especially, Jei, Phil, 
Eli, Dave Lipson, leave it all out of the field and are making our 
opponents wish they had them.

We play wentworth in our consolation game.  This game is largely relaxed, 
they know we are better than them, so do we.  The teams agrees to do the 
Crimson Crimson Crimson Flow cheer in honor of Quasar who agrees to have a 
van stay behind to help us out with transportation.  So we take wentworth 
by the score of 15 10 or something like that.  My highlight of the game is 
a throw by AJ to gabe, gabe dives to where the frisbee would be, little 
does he know that his speed/dive combination causes the frisbee to rise a 
good 5 feet directly over his layout.  We all watch in awe and the disc 
goes from perfectly into his hands to well over his head.  Go Figure


Not the best tournament from a results or organization standpoint but we do 
hold seed after we ask to be in the A division.  Its clear that Bredline is 
going to have a great spring.  We know that this year is the year when we 
teach the A teams of the NE who the we are, and make all B teams go and hide.


Consult the tournament photos (check out the layouts) and individuals 
players for details.  

(written by Frank Heydari '07)