AO Match Report Round 1

The question on everybodies lips (from AO) tonight was 'Where's Starky?'. And then also for that matter Grant, Karin and Omar, our new recruits (who we haven't been able to contact and so weren't seriously expecting them anyway). And while we're at it 'Where's Bev?' our volunteer superstar pickup. These were the only questions we asked all night though.

3 Girls and 3 Guys provided us with the opportunity/necessity to play Zone defence against the enthusiastic The Ghost Who Walks (who had really great looking shiny new uniforms just btw - and a healthy bench). We would have prefered not to on opening night, especially against a team with quite a few new players, but playing a point of man defence confirmed that they would kill us all night with the extra guy. The Zone obviously worked to our advantage, leaving their offence confused. The score blew out to 16-5 until the 5 min warning when TGWW kicked it up a notch scoring the next 4 in a row. (Final Score 16-9).

Being a player short meant we all had to put in a bit more effort. The team shared the work load really nicely, with several points going through all 6 sets of hands before scoring. Steph had some great grabs (and probably ran so much that she would have been fatigued for Div1). Dave was solid in long D all night winning almost every ariel battle they forced him into. James had a stellar game with the disc. Vanessa and Alana made precision cuts. And I managed a lay out to score (after almost missing it entirely because I looked away when I thought Dave wasn't gonna throw it). Stand out performances from all!

TGWW caught the disc well, ran hard, and didn't give up (resulting in an awesome finish). A few too many wayward throws under pressure was a large part of their downfall. Game experience should see this improve however.

A good start to the season for AO.