2006 Beth Coltman Memorial Tournament
Henlopen State Park -- Henlopen, DE -- 4.29.06 - 4.30.06

Recap

First, the bad news. Nothing official yet, but Coyne seriously injured his knee in our game against DB. Unfortunately, we can't blame anyone except Coyne who was guarding the dump vigorously when the injury happened. He's going through a bunch of tests, but torn MCL was the early guess.

Now the good. Beach houses are the way to do a tournament. Frentzel's place was fabulous, and aside from some slightly stale odors in the hot tub (easily fixed with foam-inducing Pantene shampoo), couldn't have been better.

It was extremely windy all weekend and most teams struggled with it, including us. We were seeded 3rd in our pool, 6th overall.

Saturday:

• G1 - Lost to 1/2 of Annapolis All Stars fairly easily. Afterwards we got to vote off 2 of the players to the other half of AAS.
• G2 - Lost 9-7 to DB. Almost a carbon copy of the scrimmage. They took half 7-2, we score 4 straight after half to make things interesting.
• G3 - Lost to BRDM 9-6. Came out flat and let them go up 3-0 on us. We quickly erased the lead and it was nip & tuck until they scored the last 3 points. This was really the only disappointing game of the weekend. We killed these guys at Regionals, but we flat-out beat ourselves in this one. Lots of drops and rushed throws, especially right after getting a turn.

Sunday:

• G1 - Beat Running With Scissors (new Philly co-ed team) 15-1 We actually got a decent night's sleep, which seemed to help. RWS scored the first one, then we got the next 15. We had really good flow and our women were strong. Pretzel was cut and Kristen put on probation after scoring the winning point. Why? Well, our mascot (Dallas in the PBR costume) was on the field and was supposed to get the disc for the point. I hate Snack Bar.
• G2 - Another AAS matchup. Another not-close loss.
• G3 - Forfeit win over BRDM. Then we were supposed to have a consolation game against BRDM on Sunday, but they never bothered to report their score after losing to Animal and had no idea they had another game. Half their team had left, and the other half had de-cleated and re-sandaled. They were apologetic, and offered us watermelon as a peace offering. Unfortunately I hate watermelon and would have rather had the sweet juice of revenge running down my chin.

At least there were some good deals at the Nike & Banana Republic outlets.

That's the recap. Lots of positive signs, but also a lot of room for improvement. We have some new faces, so it's going to take time to gel. Our women are ridiculously strong (even without Marie & Cat), so we have to maximize that advantage we'll have over most teams.

Next up? Bell Crack 2 weeks from Saturday. Talk of a Media Bar Crawl the Saturday night of that weekend is getting louder. And more ornery by the minute.