No Wisconsequences

Durgadurgadurga. As most (probably all) of you know, last weekend was No Wisconsequences, hosted by UW-Madison in Delafield, WI. It was a huuuuge tournament with many great teams... and power pools. In any case, as stated in the previous post, we were placed in Pool F with Chicago, Valparaiso, and UW-Lacrosse/Lawrence. Without further ado, let's take a look at how the games panned out on Saturday.

Durga vs. Chicago
First game of Saturday, Durga came out pumped up and ready to play. We knew we were facing tough competition from Chicago. Unfortunately, we weren't connecting on many throws, and had enough turns to get them the lead and win 11-8. We had some good points and worked the disc well sometimes, but we definitely played down and weren't able to bring it back in time for hard cap. There is one point that I remember mainly because I actually wrote it down after it happened, but there was a textbook play made for a score: Handler swing from me to Erin Curme to Katherine in the endzone in the other corner. Sounds familiar... maybe like a drill we do all the time at practice... At any rate, I was pleased.

Durga vs. UW-La Crosse/Lawrence
This game we were determined to win. La Crosse/Lawrence was a fun team to play but it was hard to keep our level of play up once again. I remember there were also some great plays in this game, especially with some garbage throws (I can say that because some were from me) picked up by some ambitious and amazing freshmen (I'd like to thank Charlotte in particular for picking up one of mine). The game was close at first, with the other team ahead by one point, might've been at 4-3. We picked up our game though and got our flow in motion. We took half at 7-4 and never looked back, winning the game 13-5.

Durga vs. Valparaiso
This was another close game. 3rd game of the day, we were beyond warmed up. They threw a zone on us right away and kept it up throughout the game, making our handlers work for the swing. There were a couple hucks over their cup, but their defense overpowered us and they won the game 9-5.

Durga vs. Grinnell
Okay, so we knew we had to pick up our game again because we wanted this win. We warmed up again after a 4th round bye and were ready to play. It was obvious that our flow was getting better and we were working together; our offense and defense looked great. This was a hard-fought game on both sides with the final score 12-10, us.

****If anyone has anymore details they'd like to share about these games, perhaps some kudos, props, etc to certain team members, please comment!

A lot of Durga attended the tournament party at which they gave out Patagonia gear in a raffle but the guy who was giving stuff out got really pissed off because some people stole some hats that were going to be raffled off. Then, he got even more pissed off when he realized someone stole his personal hat. This party was worse than last year because there wasn't a moonbounce and the people over 21 were blocked off in the beergarden. Oh well. St Olaf Zerks got free white jerseys which is great for them.


SUNDAY

Sunday morning we had a first round bye, on top of a 45 minute frost delay. Our first game was at 10:45 against Illinois State.

Durga vs. Illinois State
We were well warmed-up for this game and came out strong. Everyone's spirits were high, Curme was happy the other team knew the rules, Shish was just excited for everything and everyone all the time, and the other team was very complimentary and friendly. Our flow was really good and everyone was playing incredibly well. We won 13-5.

Durga vs. Winona
Winona forfeited to us, giving us a 3rd round bye. Win?
(During this "bye", Platteville's team Udderburn was kicking ass and beat Carleton's Gods of Plastic (GOP) 12-6. It was a great game)

Durga vs. Illinois State.... again.
So we played this team again, but only played up to 7. I'm fairly certain the end score was 7-1 or 7-2. Good plays once again. They're a fun team to play.


So to recap Sunday: Really great games played against the same team, and a forfeited game. Kind of unfulfilling but it was good for us. We still played hard D and always strived for possession of the disc.

I'm really impressed at how quickly the new members of Durga were able to adapt to the level of play and figure out what they needed to do. I personally feel like we accomplished a lot at this tournament and can't wait to see what we can do at HALLOWINONA!

-Written by Brittany Faust #18, Junior