Princess Round Robin

November 4 - Hanover

Game 1: Tufts EWO vs. Dartmouth Princess Layout

A little snow on the ground didn't scare Princess one bit. Dartmouth came out fired up and scored the first point of the day after a few turns. Then Tufts went on a 3 point streak, in which T-ho managed to D a disc with her knee, and on another point she laid out in the endzone and nearly had the D! Next point Katie Nash threw a beautiful break throw to Bean, who threw to Mandy and then Katie again for the score. Mandy and SamKap were connecting really well - a bunch of scores were thrown by Mandy and caught by SamKap or vice versa. Princess was down 5 - 7, and then had a three point streak with lots of beautiful outside-inside hucks by Nora, so we ended up taking half, 8 - 7. Shortly after half, the game transitioned from almost entirely man defense to almost entirely zone. Tufts was quick to score after half, but Dartmouth came right back and scored again. Nora did a great job shredding Tufts cup and Alho, SamKap, and Bean did some great popping. Then Tufts went on another 3 point streak. Tien played great D on the dump, and forced a turn. Later that same point, T ho had a D that managed to knock over 2 Tufts girls. Geetha had a bunch of Ds in these few points as well. Tufts soon threw a 1-3-3 defense and our handlers were pretty much able to run the puke silly. However, Tufts pulled out the win, 14 - 11. It was a good game though. Tufts graduated a lot of key players so we were able to really make them struggle and give their handlers a tough time.

Final Score: Tufts EWO 14, Dartmouth 11


Game 2: UVM Ruckus vs. Dartmouth Princess Layout

Dartmouth started out on D, totally fired up. Geetha had a great intimi-D to start the game that really pumped everyone up and got things off to a quick start. For the first score, Nora waited patiently and stone faced in the endzone for the UVM girl bobbling the disc to finish trying to D it and then caught it easily in her arms. "It had to come down sometime," she reasoned to the line. In the second point, there were a handful of turns, but finally SamKap manage to D a long huck sent by the main UVM handler. Then Nora sent it to Bean for the score. Marika and Tien both played great on the mark, and forced a bunch of turns that point. In the next point, Gabi had a huge D on a UVM girl. The disc turned again, and Mandy had a good D. Then Katie sent another beautiful huck to Blair in the endzone. Next point Nora had a nice break through to Emmy who threw it to Gabi for the score. In the next point Emmy had this super awkward flailing D that was suprisingly effective. To redeem herself she got a D on the dump and then ran into the endzone to catch a score from Nora. Shortly after that, Nora threw another nice long outside-inside throw to Mandy who snatched it, despite the 3 defenders on her. Then Mandy hucked it to Bean (another outside-inside) for the score. Next Dartmouth threw a zone with SamKap, Emmy, and Blair in the cup which forced a nice throw over the cup straight into Nora's hands. She then threw it to SamKap for the score, and Princess took half by a large margin. In the second half, Nora had more hucks to SamKap (SamKap pretty much ate up the end zone all game). Bean played some great D on the dump, forcing a bunch of turns. Tien's hot fakes almost took a UVM girl out in the face, I think that's how they teach you to do it in synchronized skating or something. Later in the game Blair pulled off a great D on the endzone line. Katie picked it up and dumped to Tien who threw it to Bean for the score. In the point just after that, Mandy had a great D and hucked it to Sam, who passed it off to Blair in the end zone. This game looked great. Initially we had a little bit of trouble with getting broken by the UVM handlers, but by half we had fixed that up and were forcing all kinds of swilly hammers and were running them all over the place. Looked good.

Final Score: UVM Ruckus 5, Dartmouth Princess Layout 13