GREAT JOB this weekend guys, (especially girls) I'm supa stoked you've made
it to regionals, and even more stoked that i get to play with you!!!! I'M SO
HAPPY, PLAN B YOU MAKE ME HAAPPPPY! aight, keep up the good work, doesn't it
feel good to be a semi pick up team and rock it? yeah. see you in 2 weeks!
Julia
P.S i need a ride since luke isn't playing.... anyone?




>From: Adam Halverson <ahalvers@...>
>To: darkstar@..., eugeneultimate@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [EugeneUltimate] Plan B: Sectionals Writep-Up
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:07:08 -0700
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> Hello! So, here's our write-up from Oregon Mixed Sectionals this
>weekend. For those who don't know, due to injuries and other factors,
>the local men's team 'Darkstar' wasn't left with enough folks to field a
>competitive team for the series. So, we called an audible and went coed
>at the last minute, recruiting some former Tonic players, some
>current/recent SEHS ladies, and a former teammate of mine from PDX
>coed. In addition, an early investment made by Darkstar paid off in TK
>Halverson, who played open with Darkstar after Tonic (last year's local
>womens team) didn't reform. We changed our name from Darkstar to 'Plan
>B', which was great for some graphic, off-color cheers. "Now available
>over the counter!"
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>We came into the tournament seeded 4th out of 12. There was very little
>info available to justify that seed seeing as how we had attended 0
>(zero) tournaments as a team. We scrimmaged Whore$hack (PDX mixed, 2005
>national finalist) and Shotgun (PDX mixed, new very strong team) in
>Portland a week or two ago, and we had a friendly against Churchill last
>Monday. We lost to the PDX teams and beat Churchill, but that's about
>all we had to go on.
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>Round 1: Plan B vs. Denial
>Ho! Let's just skip right to the point and face off the two Eugene
>teams! These two teams hadn't faced each other as organic wholes at
>all, but of course everybody knew everybody else, and several players on
>our roster had played with Denial at various tournaments during the
>series. On paper Denial looked pretty stacked, and had a large solid
>roster of women. Things went the way they did and we won 13-5.
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>Round 2: Plan B vs One Mississippi
>Man, that's fun to type. I didn't know much about this team, I think
>they went to regionals last year. They've got some aging coed players
>from the PDX area that aren't on the big hot teams. I expected to roll
>but they had some hustle and made us work for the 13-8 victory.
>Christine Tsou, formerly of Eugene, was playing for them. Notable plays
>in the game included Rachelle getting a Callahan goal.
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>Round 3: Plan B vs Pen-Fifteen
>Get it? Get it!?! PEN15. Yup, it's all over their jerseys too.
>Pretty funny stuff. We were looking forward to this game since at
>Kleinman Chris "Rusty" Thorn (former Duck, permanent ultimate
>personality) was featured on this roster. Unfortunately he was nowhere
>to be seen. We spotted these guys a 0-2 lead before we went on a 13-1
>run to win 13-3. I think all 3 points were scored on me.
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>Round 4: Plan B vs Soylent Green
>This is a jersey wearing, tournament entering, bona fide PDX coed team.
>They'd given Denial some close games at tournies this summer, and we
>recognized a few of their players from former PDX tier 2 men's team
>"SoPo", so we were expecting a bit of a match. Nope. We annihilated
>them with a tricky 1-3-3 clam zone and won out 13-4, no sweat. Notable
>play, Dan Walling (hey Danny!) tries to throw a score to the endzone and
>gets royally hand-blocked. The disc flies up in the air and gets bat
>down towards a woman that was nearby. She bobbles it and tries to push
>it towards her feet and...always catch your Ds...in an amazing feat of
>brilliant athletic talent and training, none other than myself lays out
>for the clutch save on the disc. Enough auto-horn-tootage.
>
>Sunday
>Round 5: Plan B vs Whoreshack
>We lost to these guys 15-12 during our little scrimmage, so we were
>planning to come out and win this game. That scrimmage was our first
>game as a coed team and we were feeling pretty buoyed by the results.
>Winning this game guaranteed a berth at Regionals, and would be a huge
>notch on the old Plan B bedpost if you know what I mean. We came out
>weak, I turned over the disc twice in the first two points to go down
>0-2. Bench me. We have a tight game from there but our offense just
>wasn't efficient enough to be automatic, and our defense, while intense
>and productive, couldn't covert. We lost this one 13-8. It was a
>disappointing finish, but a good show considering Whoreshack has been
>together for 3 years and had half that many points scored against them
>the previous day...total.
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>A2 vs B2
>So, we ended up holding seed, 2nd out of the A pool and 4th overall.
>Now the 1 seeds in each pool play each other for first overall, and the
>2 seeds out of each pool play for a guaranteed spot. Some craziness in
>the B pool had their 1 seed, Cannonball out of Humbolt County, losing a
>BUNCH of games, moving up Shotgun (PDX) and The Coltrane (PDX) into the
>1 and 2 spots respectively. So, it's us vs Coltrane for a guaranteed
>bid to Regionals.
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>We hadn't played these guys at all, or even seen them play. They had a
>good showing at Kleinman, losing only to defending national champion
>'Brass Monkey' (Bay Area), and beating some pretty strong teams. So, we
>had no idea how this game would go, although I would say that we were
>'quietly confident.'
>
>We annihilated them. This was NO CONTEST. TK went off in this game,
>recording layout Ds on the other team's men, several long hucks, and a
>callahan goal. Nobody else could do any wrong as Johnny Bloch's huge
>pulls had our D on their first throws, forcing several early turnovers
>near the endzone we were attacking. The roster was opened up quite a
>bit and even our bench was scoring easily. With the extra subs we could
>rest our women and injuries and we played it out to 13-7. It was
>nowhere near that close.
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>Loser of Finals vs US
>Whoreshack over Shotgun in the finals. Shotgun lost to the horn in the
>finals 14-13, extremely disappointing for them I'm sure. But, they play
>us for seed, winner is the 2, loser is the 3. We decided before the
>game that our goals had been met and that the roster would be wide open
>for the whole game. We spotted them a 5-1 lead before playing even to
>half 8-4 and got broken after half to 9-4. Lulled into complacency by
>what was, up to then, a lackluster game, we "stormed back" to get close
>at 9-11 them. Suddenly we decided we were 'in it' and could go for the
>win, but the game played out to 11-15 them. It was a FUN game with lots
>of learning for our younger players and a lot of gelling for the team.
>It was a really nice way to end the tournament, and we hope to bring
>that attitude and fun to Regionals.
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>Interesting note about the whole tournament: There was some talk on the
>message boards and amongst the Portland folk about us not having women,
>and not throwing to women, and whatnot. LOTS of teams, in particular
>the PDX teams, went 4 women on us almost by default. Needless to say,
>it didn't work out for them. Our women played so well and so often (we
>only had 6 that could make it to sectionals) that they dominated these
>teams. It might have been better to let our men swill it up on the
>field than let our intense, efficient, and dominant women be a majority
>force out there. Our women were getting the Ds, catching and throwing
>the hucks, and had the 2 callahan scores for the weekend. Congrats and
>thanks to them.
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