Hard boiled eggs

Last night Heroes played Poachers, and boi were they hard to crack, but we gave them a push. Their infamous(!?!) star Canadian recruit's skill/reputation had been spreading throughout the club as one to watch out for. But getting away from him Heroes played really well in the end. These early starts are totally killing any sort of preparation/warm up and so we struggled for about the first 15 mins going down 4-1. Poachers were nice enough to relax their zone, even though I did warn Dan that we could play better and that it probably wasn’t their zone getting on top of us, more our own silly errors. But still they were nice enough to go to Man D. I thought this was the trigger point for us in the game. We quickly got the score back closer to 6-4. Laura H was the catalyst with scoring something like 5 points and getting 3 blocks - WooT.
After playing, and getting back into the game, Poachers allowed us to pick up a player (Dave B) and we thought we would allow their zone once more. The game traded points until 10-9 with the Poachers on serve (they would always be the ones getting the 1-up point), and were beginning to realise they had the long advantage on a huck. They seemed to only score this way and in contrast we scored by nicely linked passing. I began playing a hard straight up D on Poachers main handler which seemed to restrict the huck quite well and we were able to get some easy turnovers from wayward throws.
In the end, Poachers broke the heroes and went up 13-10 when last possession was called on the Poachers pull. To our credit we scored on last possession rather easily and ran the game out to 13-11.
Poachers played very well and the spirit of the game was very much the winner, but more accurately Poachers had won. We felt as though we played well considering being down by so much at the start. Great game poachers and yes we'll see you in the finals to come :P