Gaels Sunday, CUUC 2009

Sunday, Oct 18.

Defeated Waterloo 12-6
Loss to Carleton 12-11
Win over UBC(forfeited)

Mothership woke up on Sunday to find itself with beat-up handlers but that wasn't something that painkillers won't cure. We took half at 8-2 against Waterloo and was graced by the arrival of Andy, who gave the other hadlers their much needed rest. Shortly after half, Evan threw a Greatest off of Andy's 60 yard huck to the end zone which fired up the team and Mothership marched on to win quaterfinals 12-6.

There was this weird feeling that was a mixture of excitement, nervousness, and uncertainly inside me when I was warming up for the semi-finals. Mothership has not been at the semis at CUUC since 2006 and I didn't know how to react to it. The cheer before the game started was noticeably louder than all the other ones during the tourney, I can tell that everyone was ready to go.

Carleton started on zone D and our offense was shaky at first. Motherhp found itself down 2-0 before the offense regrouped and started producing points. For the rest of the game, it was just a series of back and forth between the two teams, each tweaking and adjusting strategies, hoping to gain the lead as both teams were trading points. There was alot of sweet offensive grabes and defensive bids from both sides. Mothership was down 11-12 until richie came down with a high-flying disc with two Carelton defenders on him to force the game into universe point. However, Carelton ended up winning the game and advanced to the finals against Western. After, UBC forfeited the bronze medal game due to shortage of players and Queen's ended up finished third in the Nation: Not a bad way to finish off the season.

This year's Canadian season was definitely the most enjoyable one for me, lots of close fought games and hard earned victories,

Great job ship,

Erns.

CUUC 2009 Day 2

Saturday, Oct 17.

Defeated UBC 12-6
Defeated UQAM 12-11
Defeated Ottowa 14-6

The win on UBC for the first game of Saturday boosted our confidence for the rest of the day. We were up 8-5 at half but started hucking the disc away and had a lot of trouble playing against UQAM's offense at the second half. They caught up and tied it at 9s and it was just a slugfest until the game went to universe at 11s. Richie threw the winning throw to Bomber who barely caught it with 2 defenders on him. God bless you two Bomber and Richie, God bless.
We went on to win against Ottawa and it came down to a three way tie for first place in our power pool between us, UBC, and Dalhousie. but we end up finishing first in our power pool based on the head to head win against UBC. Eat well and get rest up for the big day tomorrow boys.

Erns.

CUUC 2009 Day 1

Friday, Oct 16.

Loss to Dalhousie 10-15
Defeated Montreal 15-7
Defeated McGill B 15-1
Defeated Toronto 15-7

First day of the tournament and it was freezing in the morning. Was leading Dalhousie 8-3 but couldn't adjust to the zone that they put up second half of the game. Tough loss, really dissapointed. We regrouped, won our game aginst Montreal and McGill B, got fired up with the game againt Toronto. We played chilly offense and tight D and went on to win the game. Props to Vanni for some great skys, Richie's layout Ds, Ginther's hucks, and Evan's sick layout catch that I missed on the video camera. Ship will go on to advance into the power pool on Saturday. Rest well tonight boys.

Erns.

CEUUC 2009

London, Ontario

Saturday
defeated Waterloo 15-6
lost to Carleton 8-9
defeated Western B1 15-6
defeated Western B2 14-4

Sunday
lost to Toronto 10-9
defeated McGill 10-9
defeated Ottawa 15-2

Finished 5th out of 16 Teams

First Tourney of the year for Queen's ultimate and also my first chance to see how well the team go up against other universities. Our offense was efficient and our defense was there to keep us in the game. All in all, I am very pleased with the result.

So what's next? Well, we've seen every team on the east coast and what they can do. We'll just have to train harder and play smarter than everyone else since they're all doing the same thing. If there's anything that we learned from CEUUC, it is the fact that we are definetly able to compete with any other teams in the Canadian series.

I would also like to congratulate Superfly for breaking seed and finish 12th overall and 3rd out the 7 B teams.

Nationals in 5 days,

Tear the roof off,

Erns.

Year 2009

Yes, after 3 long years, this space will finally be used once again. I was reading the past posts by the Queen's captain (ryan, aka: gnarly) back when I was in first year from 2006 and I had some good laughs at some of the past posts. You will be greatly missed gnarly, but don't worry, I made you the poster-boy for this year's tryout so everyone will be wondering who you are only to never get a chance to see you. Anyways, tryouts starts soon and I'm getting excited. Going to pick-up tomorrow to get some ultimate in me and see if the vets have been keeping up with ultimate over the summer.

Erns.

No Cigar.

California.

8-15 vs. Florida
15-11 vs. Brown
11-15 vs. Claremont
4-15 vs. UBC
13-10 vs. Chico State
11-9 vs Cal-Davis

You win some, you loose some, but you live to fight another day. We learned a lot from this trip. We know what we have to do, and do it when it counts. Rest ensured that we will use this to our highest potential.

Training continues harder then ever. Can't wait to get under someone's skin tonight at practice.
Do that roof thing.

Gnarlz.

The Notorious S.H.I.P.

Alfie's, 15th of Debruary, Wednesday. Be there.

10 bucks each= California.

Good practice this week. Dean is still out when Miles landed on his head. Popped a ligament in his back. Brutal.

Keep pushing it boys. Stanford in 20 days. Hoooooooooooly shnikes. Fat guy in a liiiitle coooooat.

Get your studen number in, get your membership like I asked, get the registrar form, party at the parties.

Tear the roof off.

Gnarlz.

Whoomp! There it is!

Woo. Whirlwind.

We are back in the thick of things. February already eh? Intense.

Spring Series training is at full throttle, with dome tuesdays, Bews gym fridays, stairs Thursdays and track Sundays. Training started slow vastly improved.

The season has already left us a few heart attacks, some good and some bad. Bad first: we lost a player, our German friend Mark Oesterle to a ruptured kidney. He took a knee to the abdomen going up for the disc. It looked like it hurt, and apparently it sucks. Who would have guessed. The good: Queen's was invited to the 2006 Stanford Invitational. Shmurgen!

We are up against some steep competiton, but we are looking forward to playing them. If anything it lit a fire under our asses. UBC, Berkeley, UCSD, UCSB, Brown, Georgia, Oregon, Washington...these teams aren't going to roll over like say...Guelph.

California, here we come.

Remember, impromptu practice at my house, 1300 Saturday. Bring your selected beverages and nourrishment. (beer and munchies, suds and snacks, pop and pretzels)

It is 17 degrees in Palo Alto right now. Staaaaaaaanfooooooooooord....

Just over a month boys...Going to California with an acheing in my heart...

Gnarlz.