Heroes v Poachers

In what was a round to remember the league saw a few wins that perhaps would not have been tipped to occur. Frisky Time beating M.Yellow by 1, Dyspnoeics over Discheds and the highly ranked Ghost walkers got up against Baby chimis. Wow what a round and more entertainingly Poachers and Heroes played out a draw 8 all. In what has become a modern day rivalry these teams have played each other 3 times.
1st was poachers win 13-11
2nd was Heroes win 10-5
and now the 3rd is a 8-8 draw
I guess the only problem is that we like to play the Poachers so its maybe not a fierce rivalry but all the same its a fun contest every time.

The old, "the game was deserving to be a draw" "both teams played as good as each other" stuff is boring, but in this instance very true! 
Each side managed to pull off well constructed points when needed and created good flow. All the same it was Heroes who lost the match. Last possession was called on the Poachers pull and Heroes moved it up the field and Mikey caught the disc in the endzone, well sorta, when he jumped he was in the endzone and landed about a 1/2 foot out of bounds, which was so excruciating from my point of view. A win last night would have seen the Heroes stay in touch with outright 2nd but now it appears that GWW and Dyspnoeics will take that role.

Next week sees the un-beaten ExQUisiTe fresh from their bye, up against Heroes. This will be a good yard stick for us to see where we are at. We will be at our best if we are going to topple the league favourites.
3-2-1-Heroes

Its just like kissing Your baby sister

Right first things first, kissing your sister is the worst possible experience. Ok now that we've got that sorted, it is only second to having a draw in a ultimate match. Last night Heroes took on the baby chimies and we sort of expected a win from the last result.

Heroes started very well and were organized to take the lead 2-0. aL decided to step it up and so chimies answered back to take the score to 2-1. The teams traded and heroes managed to break the serve of the chimies to make the score 7-4. We thought we had the game in the bag basically which lead to some REALLY sloppy D and actually I was kinda ashamed that we let aL have so much room on the handle and so the babies brought it back to 9-8. The time cap was looming over the match and so the long huck became very valuable. Carl managed to huck it long and Dave caught it in the end zone. However chimies took the lead with some classic fatty to aL ultimate mixed in with some newer talent that the chimies had on offer. The game ended at 13 all. It was tense and both teams used their better players quite effectively in the clutch moments. Having said that as always in ultimate when there’s a draw one team feels as though they've won and one feels as though they lost... Heroes definitely felt as though we lost. BUT on post game reflection we had lots of fun, and used all our players, something of which we're proud of. All our girls worked well and we seemed to use the disc effectively when we decided not to cold drop it.

Btw Laura wants it mentioned that she scored 4 points and so I might give her the 3 points for MVP for the game!

As a team we have tried to focus on honouring good cuts (male or female) and the last few games have been a real testament to that. All in all Heroes played better than baby chimies and we felt like we should have won, it was definitely a well spirited game and we loved the hard contest we got.