After taking a cup at Wildwood on Sunday, my weekly rec league team took our 4 or 5 seed and turned it into a Cinderella story. The details are already a little fuzzy, but the longer the evening wore on, the better we got at frisbee. By the time all the brats were gone, we were amazing.
In the semis, we jumped out to a 4-0 lead. Despite a few throwaways, our offense was comparatively clean and moving the disc. The defense was awake and pressuring the other team. We weren't getting D's, but we were taking away the first few cuts and forcing Ochos to consider other options. Not wanting the lead to grow too large, we dropped a couple discs and the Ochos got it into the endzone. They started getting smarter about taking advantage of match-ups, but we kept playing our game which actually was (finally!) dump swing on this fine summer evening and we traded points and took half at 8-4. I'm not sure how others felt, but after half it felt like time was standing still... We kept doing us (in the good way!) and the Ochos got anxious and took a few deep shots, fortunately Beeby was there to crush their hopes and dreams. Tim was breaking marks, Patti was getting open and we kept nursing our 4 point lead. It was either the end of semis or start of finals, but we just kept moving the disc and waiting for openings. Patient offense made a huge difference. Everybody was contributing and nothing was too flashy. Maybe we gave one back, but I think the score ended up something like 11-8.
The other semi had been a one-point game, but when the finals started, we picked up where we left off. They tried to hurt Beeby after we were up 1-0. He landed hard on the ground and had to come out. Not to be deterred, we pressured on D and moved the disc on O and we were up 4-0 when Shiny called a time out. We threw a zone at them and saw immediate results. We punched in 4 more as their desperation grew and took half 8-0. Shiny was getting pretty upset and pick calls were rampant, but our reinforcements arrived (Yay Carley!) and we came out of half and kept rolling. Big Nate got a lay out D and then grabbed the score. We were up 10-0 before Shiny got on the board. They went nuts with the score 10-1. They had a couple nice breaks after that to get a few more. Gravy/Plantaris/Kate hauled in a deep shot near the front of the end zone, called a time out and set up the iso for Mel. With a little over the top break high-release, we kept marching toward our destiny. I think we closed out 15-6 (maybe?) and then the championship grilling was on!
Good times. Thanks Stink!
