This weekend, Zack had a frisbee tournament in Chattanooga. So, we headed up to Chattanooga Saturday morning for the tournament. The team decided to bring 2 teams to this tournament and so we had a lot of guys/wives and girlfriends at the tournament. Zack played on the Roma A team which consisted of most of the guys that are planning to go to the sectional tournament in a few weeks. The B team was a mismatch of guys that used to play on Dirty South, a few Roma Ultima regulars, and guys that just started playing with Roma Ultima.
On Saturday, Roma had 5 games straight with no breaks. It was going to be a grueling day. Our bracket also had a lot of really solid teams in it.
Our first game was against Tennessee Tech. The guys dominated this game and won easily. The girls had left home a little later than the guys so we missed their first game.
Our second game was against Duel. This was a solid team with lots of talent. I think that this was the first time that we have ever played them. They were getting frustrated to be having such a hard time against a team that they had never heard of before. I overheard one of the players from Duel asking someone on another team if her knew anything about our team and the guy said. "yeah. I think that they are an up and coming team. We saw them at Monkey bowl in Nashville and they were kinda rough, but they look like they have improved alot." Our guys were playing really well and they ended up beating Duel by about 4-5 points.
Our third game was against Iron Man, a team that our friend Zach used to play for while he was in college. We had played them once before at our last tournament in Huntsville and had lost to them. We were playing hard and ended up having a heart breaking 9:10 loss to them.
Our forth game was against Ball and Chain a masters level elite team that we have played a couple times before. The last time we had beaten them by 1 point, but we ended u loosing to them. We were coming off of a loss and just were playing like we were already defeated. I feel like we really beat ourselves during that game.
Our fifth and final game on Saturday was against Glove Slap a team that we have played a couple of times in tournaments. We easily beat them to finish out the day.
Our guys were exhausted and hungry by the end of the day. so, we headed to shower and grab some dinner before everyone fell into bed.
Day 2 everyone was a little tired, but was anticipating the day. There had been some errors with determining the seeding for the 2nd days brackets. We had been seeded 4th, but actually should have been third. Thankfully, they got it all straightened out and we started our first game.
We played our first game against VALPO. It was a fairly easy victory for our guys.
The second game on Sunday was against Brah. I found this team extremely obnoxious. They were a number 1 seeded team from one of the other brackets from Saturday. They had had a bi and thus were fresh as they took the field. This team was also filled with fast, athletic guys who had great skills with the disk. This was a disadvantage to our guys who were coming off of a game already and who were a little bit tired. We were down from the start, but we started to climb our way back into the game after half time...it just wasn't enough to come back and win. We ended up loosing to them 13:7. That was our last game of the day. They did not have brackets filled out any further than that. Zack did take some consolation in the fact that Brah, the team that we lost to ended up winning the tournament.
While it wasn't the outcome that our guys would have hoped for, it was another tournament under our belt. A little more exposure for our team...and more experience for all of our players. This will only help us at sectionals in a few weeks!!
We all headed out to Cracker Barrel befoer heading home. I fell asleep as soon as we got home. I was exhausted. It had been a long, busy week.
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