Hey Gobies- It's been a long, long time since there's been a Road to Regionals update and I couldn't be prouder to write my very first article on Fall Brawl 2010. What. A. Weekend.
Gobies A Roster- Ed, Owen, Mac, Andy, Mark, K-Vick, Jason, Saylor, Brady, Terence, Rookies: Bayunt, Max, McGoogan.
Pool Play-
Mood of the Game: Friendly Rivalry turned Coldblooded Competition
For those who don't know, I have quite a bit of history with this team and couldn't have been more stoked to find out we were playing Yuk in the very first round of the tournament. Having rolled two summers long with the likes of Adam, Jesse, Kaner, DK (the other Donkey Kwass), and Scott, I was admittably a bit nervous about the prospect of playing against them. They threw zone against us and with great patience, O line scored pretty much entirely without turns the entire first half. Yuk held their own with some quick, powerful hucks but eventually dropping down a break. After the half, Yuk changed their defense to man+travel calls, though, and things got serious. Clutch layouts by both teams kept things neck and neck until hardcap went off, and after coming to 13-13, Case earned a break to go up 14-13, then held on Universe to win 15-14. It was an incredibly tense second half that would be a sign of things to come throughout the weekend.
Final Score: 15-14 CASE WESTERNNNNNNNNN
Round 2: Bye
Went over to watch our B team and friends throw down against Toledo. It looked like a valiant struggle with MC, BT, Weston, Danny, DK, and Eric taking charge on offense and some very tight defense by our B squad rookies. Apparently Case B lost but from our time observing it, it was anyone's game.
Round 3: OSU B
Mood of the Game: Pedal to the Metal
This game was practically a blur. OSU B struggled mightily to contain the likes of Pwnen' Owen and Mac Attack but their Man wasn't nearly manly enough and their zone folded like a lawn chair against that age-old patient handling of Ed, Andy, and Jason. Our D line earned multiple breaks and ultimately spelled the advent of the age of "Bayunt, take Short-Deep". We did a fantastic job of not letting up on OSU at all even when the game was clearly decided, something our team has historically struggled with in the past. Our well-earned victory provided us with a solid 45 minutes or so to check out our Ladies team throwing down some pretenders on the other field.
Final Score:13-4 CASE WESTERNNNNNN
Round 4: Kenyon
Mood of the Game: Sectionals more like Wrecktionals
We'd all heard of Kenyon's solid performance at Sectionals last spring and knew that we were going to have to offer them tight competition or it would be a very long Road to Regionals indeed.
I was a little confused why all of them were wearing Owen's high-school PUF jerseys, particularly when none of them played half as hard as our dashing new captain. We came out firing both halves and overwhelmed their offense with tight shutdown-D on their in-cuts and dumps with a side of Ed skying fools in the backfield. Kenyon's offense got a little back on their feet to offer a tougher second half but their defense still was at odds to contain Owen, Mark, and Mac's blistering cuts and some truly incredible captain-captain deep shots. With another quick victory came another extended rest that we put to maximum use against Pitt.
Final Score:13-6 CASE WESTERNNNNNNN
Round 5: Pittsburgh X
Mood of the Game: Not Impressed
Sure. Yup. 3rd in the Nation and all that. Cool. These guys admittably were solid, solid players with phenomenal cutting ability and athleticism. That being said, they put up a lot of garbage hucks and their defense was only about average. Mac, K-Vick, Ed, and Jason made them respect us deep on both sides of the disc. Pitt's legendary spirit made an appearance this game, say no more. Overall I think we were all satisfied with the way we played today and putting up a whole bunch against a Nationals-caliber team was a decent end to pool play.
Final Score: 7-13 Pitt X
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Dinner: Hounddogs
Mood of the Game: SO GOOD
IT WAS SO GOOD. IT WAS SO GOOD. IT WAS SO GOOD. And then Libby Iced me and Mike @_@
Final Score: $45.22, Hounddogs
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Day 2, PreQuarters: Kent State
Mood of the Game: Too much Hounddogs... Too much tournament party...
We opened up Day 2 playing our good friends from Kent State. First games on Sunday have not traditionally been our strongest moments and that was sort of true here again. There was definitely some waking-up done mid-game with regards to weaker deep cuts and less-than-100% throws. Fortunately, we only got complacent in after taking half 8-1, so it was only a matter of getting on our horse and closing out the game. We essentially traded throughout the second half, but it was more of the break-break variety than the hold-hold kind. Not the prettiest win, but a win nonetheless.
Final Score 15-8 CASE WESTERNNNNNNN
Quarterfinals: Pittsburgh Y
Mood of the Game: Oh, sorry, did we wake you up?
We sort of knew how things were going to play out coming into this, but that being said we played our hearts out and absolutely thrashed the newly-arrived Pitt Y team, taking 3 breaks in a row to start the game. Nothing was more satisfying than going up three breaks before they had to throw an entire line of sublimated jerseys out just to do something about us. Fortunately this squad had considerably more spirit than their other team, but all we concerned ourselves with was playing as hard as we could to get ourselves in gear to hold seed in the game beyond.
Final Score 8-15 Pitt Y
7th Place Game: Dayton
Mood of the Game: Ahhgazimba, zimba, zimba, Ahgazima zimba-ze...
HOLD THEM DOWN...
0-4,
YOU GOBY WARRIORS!
3-8,
HOLD THEM DOWN...
10-5 run to tie it up 13-13
YOU GOBY CHIEFS, CHIEFS CHIEFS!!!
3 breaks in a row, after cap.
Final Score 16-13 CASE WESTERNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
5th Place Game: Ohio University
Mood of the Game: I'M THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH!
In all seriousness, after beating Dayton there was pretty much no chance those chuckleheads from Ohio were going to keep us down. The fastest growing program in our conference was at a loss to halt this particular swarm of invasive Great Lakes bottom dwellers. Go ahead, throw an entire line of green paw prints at us. It don't bother us none. While every point was hotly contested, strong, patient offense put point after point on the scoreboard for us while the D-line earned breaks left and right with D's earned across the spectrum. Bayunt basically wrecked up the joint as a short-deep, Ed and K-Vick were up to their usual tricks, Mike did his thing where he supermans everywhere, Terence got a faceblock, and even I managed to snatch a pink lace out of the affair. Jason almost stole the show with a Callahan to win the game but was gracious enough to let Max close out the weekend with a sexy strike-cut.
Final Score: 15-6 CASE WESTERNNNNN
Enough couldn't be said about individual performances- we were just a strong all-around team and to say that one person did something particularly well would be to imply that not all of us were. Untrue. Everyone on the roster fulfilled their roles or bailed out when they needed to and played within themselves. It was the highest level we'd played at in recent memory and it brought us a 5th-place result over a controversial 7th "overseed".
Bonus Round: Chipotle+Cold Stone
Mood of the Game: Ed has to eat 3 burritos
Didn't happen, but we're all waiting.
Final Score: Gobies 1 Haters None
Minority Report: Ladies team takes 3rd, Case B beats SUNY-Buffalo and CMU-B to earn a double-IHOP trip, plus a forfeit from some weak men who had homework to do or something.
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