We Hate PADA

Tournament was postponed to Sunday, so a lot of teams never showed up.

West Windsor and Scarsdale, who was supposed to be our first game dropped out due to the schedule change so we ended up at the fields at 10:30 with a bye until 1:30. Luckily, we found a team called Mofo that agreed to play us so we would have something to occupy us until so.

Game 1: JR Masterman
Opened up pretty slow, kind of a new team. We ended up taking this game pretty lazily, and although we were pretty much destroying them, our O and D wasn't exactly the greatest. Won the game 13-3 or 4, and then we got pumped up for our game against Cardinal O Hara.

Game 2: Cardinal O Hara
One thing that Watchung Hills has improved on most is spirit. And I don't mean like gay, SOTG spirit, I mean team spirit. Screaming defense on every turn, and making the sideline loud as possible really helped to get ourselves pumped up. The game opened up pretty well with us playing really hard, aggressive D and quick efficient O. We scored the first couple of points simply by running and throwing precisely, and when they attempted to put a zone on us, we crashed it and had multiple give and goes for points.

Game 3: JR Masterman
So somehow MOFO beat everybody in their pool. I don't know how that worked out either, but shit happens. Once again, we shut then down pretty well, they scored 4 points the entire game mostly through hucks that got past our straight up marks. But we ended the game pretty easily, 13-6.

Finals: Radnor
Getting into the finals, we came out pretty spirited. We started the first point on D, where I quickly had a layout D on an upline and then I proceded to pick up the disc and immediately huck to Jake, who, as usual, skied his defender and passed to Scott for the first point. We went on a 3-0 run, then they tried a zone on us, which caused some turnovers not due to their defense but us just making stupid turnovers. Eventually they brought the score within a 1 point range, but we then shredded their zone with crashes, and razors or scoobers over the cup. Most of the points they scored were off of hucks, so when we realized that straight up was effective, we broke away and took half 7-5. One thing that we always mess up on is letting our guard down during the second half. Not this time. Playing with the mentality of 0-0, game to 6, we quickly scored more points, with big hucks from Steve Silva to me, and a short huck to Scott Hampton who made a sick layout for the point. I began to have cramps through all my muscles so I sat out for the last two points. Watchung Hills takes 1st place 13-6.

RRI hops us up to 8th in the nation.
Next tournament: Rutgers Grease Trucks Classic