Spring Break Summary

Courtesy of Princess Blair Burgreen

Princess at Southerns, Statesboro, GA

This was Princess' first apprearance in the sun and we all played well and had some serious improvement over the weekend. Due to low numbers at the beginning of the break, Princess A and B combined forces and lay it all out.

Results from Saturday were:
Dartmouth v. Davidson, losing, 3-13
Dartmouth v. Ohio, losing, 6-13
Dartmouth v. Swarthmore, losing 5-11
Dartmouth v. Williams B, winning 13-1

Sunday we really took it up a notch, coming out 3-1 at the end of the day.
Main results were:
Dartmouth v. Richardson, winning, 13-2
Dartmouth v. Williams, losing 5-12, but just that small dose of Whufo's mom definitely gave us that special little push that would last us the rest of the day.
Dartmouth v. Swarthmore, wining 13-9--which was actually really sweet to win considering we had just lost to them yesterday (see score above)
Dartmouth v. Luther-15-14--Athough according to Rayna, this score should be more like 16-14 since we had a slight difference in the recording during half (basically we each thought that we were one point up on each other and agreed to just settle on being tied---making it feel that much better to win on universe point!)

We ended up coming in 21st overall, not a bad show for our first weekend out.

Monday: HAT TOURNY! A bunch of Princess took the day to relax, but those who came out enjoyed the sun and a fun day of ultimate and meeting people. And my team, the Pandas, won (this is Blair for anyone who's reading this now), with some smooth handling by Sam Routhier and a great show by Ben Weiner. AND I got a great hat out of it. See Brett if you'd like Follywood gear.

Follywood!

Tuesday-Thursday, Folly Beach, SCI don't really remember the scores, but we scrimmaged Northwestern, UMass, Wellesley, OSU, and Maryland. I do recall ALMOST beating Ohio though, and they were quite suprised with our performance after playing us during southerns. We also got the rest of our team back this week with Alho and Samkap coming in from New Zealand, Emmy from the Marshall Islands, Apay from Costa Rica, and Mandy (well, she actually came in on sunday, but who's counting) from Albany. It was a LONELY winter. So few people to cuddle with! But that was definitely one of the highlights of Follywood. And awesome job to Brett who organized this whole scrimmage/tourney series!

Friday-travel to Ultimax in Greenville, NC

Saturday at Ultimax:
After having already played a long hard week of ultimate, Princess really came out of her shell the first day of Ultimax.
Results of the day:
Dartmouth v. Harvard, losing, 9-12
Dartmouth v. Cornell X- winning 13-6; a weaker than expected showing by Cornell because they were playing with their B team.
Dartmouth v. North Carolina B, winning, 13-6--a little frustrating that they even got so many points. They randomly had 2 pretty sick handlers that were able to work it up the field. They definitely gave us a run for our money
Dartmouth v. James Madison, winning 13-6, come on, you can't lose to a team that calls themselves the Bitch Monkeys.

Sunday at Ultimax:
Dartmouth v. East Carolina, winning, 13-3-- This was a messy fouly game. We played well and definitely kept ourselves together considering what we were faced with. Pretty much the only thing that I can remember about this game was having to deal with really poor spirit and the knowledge of how to make calls but not know what they mean.
Dartmouth v. Mary Washington, losing 8-13-- this was a great game, although we were bummed that it ended our day a bit early. We all found things we needed to work on, injuries that we needed to heal, and how much work we have to go to build this team for the spring season.

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