Week One: Getting to Know One Another

Hey Ultimate People,

Twas brillig to see all the shiny happy people last week for a sensational season opener.  The weather tried its best to chase us off, but we were able to hold firm (but cautiously) and only miss an hour's worth of ultimate.

Which brings us to a few necessary announcements:
1)  Lightning Policy - When a flash is seen, we wait 20 minutes before games begin.  We highly recommend you leave the fields at this time, but even if you choose to stay, no games will be played while lightning is present.
2)  Officially: No Drugs or Alcohol are allowed at the fields.   (Bring discretion devices.)
3)  Even More Officially: No Dogs at the Fields.  Players with dogs will be asked to take their dogs home.  (My B)

And now for more fun announcements:
1)  The complete schedule is now up at ashevilleultimate.org.  Check it out and plan your Wednesdays!
2)  You'll see on the schedule, (and on the results below), that the teams right now are a bunch of numbers.  Lame.  Whoever thought numbers were cool should teach math.  We're giving teams until Week 3 to make up a team name having to do with some Mythical Creature.  Griffins has been taken by someone.  The Kraken is still up for grabs.  If you already have a team name that doesn't have to do with a Mythical Creature, that's fine, but know that everyone else will have cooler names.  If you don't come up with something by Week 3, we'll provide you one using my old Monster Manual (nerd alert!).

Finally, last week's results!

5.30

1v2
11 to 9

3v9
8 to 14

7.00
1v9
7 to 12

4v8
8 to 8

8.30
5v6
11 to 10

7v10
10 to 15

And here's a recap of Team 9's doubleheader:

"Team 9 vs Team 3

We (Team 9) rushed out to start with 4 quick points in a row.  We let off the gas, but took half 8-6 (8-7?).  Team 3 fielded 4 guys/3 ladies for the first few points of the 2nd half, with quite a few deep throws to Chanley for points.  Luckily, our ladies stepped up to the challenge and caught a few deep hammers to score.  End game: Team 9 wins, 14-8.  

Team 9 vs Team 1

With quite a few of Team 1's star players benched due to injuries, Team 9 was able to grab some easy breaks and throw even more hammers to the end zone.  Score: 5-1.  At this time, Team 1 rallied a little bit and we traded points.  Team 9 took half 8-3 (8-4?).  Team 9's speedy, uninjured line, despite more than a few turnovers, easily won the game, which was called early on account of lightning.  Final score: 12-7." - Jack Derbyshire

Team Record

1 1 - 1

2 0 - 1

3 0 - 1

4 0 - 0 - 1

5 1 - 0

6 0 - 1

7 0 - 1

8 0 - 0 - 1

9 2 - 0

10 1 - 0

See you Wednesday! -Ryan Bell