This is an UN-BELIEVABLE account. A great write-up
James! Thanks for taking the time and effort to keep
us informed. Amazing amazing tourney. Wish I could
have been there to see that final game!!!

Good job guys who played. I think I played with some
of those people from Burbank when I went down for the
St. Pats Hat. Some of my team-mates were unbearable
with their calls. I felt like wringing their necks.
They just had aweful spirit against every team we
played against. We'd be stomping the other team like
10-2 and they'd be yelling at the other team, yelling
at each other, and yelling at the grass.

It was ridiculous. I was actually kinda bummed my
team ended up winning the St. Pats hat-because I think
there were other more talented/better spirited teams
out there! I didn't play on the second day because I
wasn't feeling well-and also because Dennis' team was
way more fun to hang out with!!!

Anyways, don't mean to rant when I'm so excited for
ya'll.

ChocolatiE Clare

--- james hong <jjhong4ash@...> wrote:

> Hi Dennis,
>
> I think this was the first year that Santa Barbara
> Classic had 2 divisions (Div I and Div II). We were
> seated #1 in our pool of Div II. Saturday, we
> played
> 4 games total and our record was 3 wins and 1 loss.
> Our only loss came against Burbank (second game),
> who
> I'm sure many people know are not fun to play
> against
> since they are all about making crappy calls. (They
> really bring out the ugliness in you.) It was
> really
> windy on Saturday and most teams played zone
> (almost,
> but not as bad as that sectionals couple of years
> ago
> in Oxnard).
>
> Our first game on Sunday was against UC Irvine team
> and we beat them quite easily. Our second game was
> against some team named "Mango something" and we
> beat
> them quite convincingly also. Our third game
> (semi-final) was against Fresno team and we beat
> them
> quite comfortably, but little bit more competitive
> than 2 previous games. Our final game (for the Div
> II
> Championship) was against...dang...I don't even know
> where they were from, but they had some funky
> European
> name. Well anyway, we jumped to an early 4-2 lead.
> And I think, we became little bit too complacent and
> the other team came roaring back. (Many of us
> thought
> that the other team was tired and didn't have the
> legs, but that was not true.) It was all tied up at
> 7's and we barely managed to win the half to take 8
> to
> 7 lead. The second half was more of the same and
> the
> two teams kept trading points. The other team had
> this one guy who could huck the disc about full
> length
> of the field and they had receivers who could run it
> down. While our team was slowly and methodically
> advancing the disc the whole length of the field to
> score, they would only take about 2-4 passes to
> score.
> They ended up catching us to even the score at 10
> to
> 10. Then, they went on to take their first lead of
> the game to go ahead at 11 to 10. We ended up tying
> the score to even it up at 11's when the soft cap
> was
> called (thus, the game was to 13). If my memory
> serves me correctly (actually, I'm not quite sure on
> this), they went up to take the lead 12 to 11 and we
> then came back to tie it 12 to 12. After their
> turnover near our endzone, we advanced the disc all
> the way down about 5 yards from their endzone. Our
> winning score came when Ben (I'm pretty sure it was
> him, or it could've been Ken) threw a high release
> backhand to Palmer (a new guy from Florida) who went
> skying high to catch the disc with his outstretched
> hand and land just inside the front of endzone for
> the
> Div II Championship title!!
>
> James
>
>
>
> --- Dennis <dmreda@...> wrote:
>
> > Did Elvis make the journey to Santa Barbara this
> > weekend? The team
> > has been to the SB Classic for a couple of years
> > running, but I
> > didn't see you all talking about it online.
> >
> > What about Daweena, for that matter? That is some
> > stiff competition,
> > for sure. Fun too, b/c we used to get to play
> teams
> > from Montana,
> > Colorado, and other far-away places.
> >
> > The mrs. and I are living the life of
> hat-tourneys.
> > St. Pats Hat in
> > March, and Hats Hops Hucks coming up in July. We
> had
> > to skip a
> > Sacramento hat in April due to the impending trip
> to
> > Japan (which was
> > pretty awesome, btw. Just gotta find a web site
> that
> > will let us
> > upload 277 MB worth of pics.... :-)
> >
> > I hope you all are planning to do Lucky 7's again
> in
> > the fall. With
> > the way the number of teams has grown in that one,
> > it really puts
> > Vegas on the (Ultimate) map!
> >
> > Much love, my homies! Hope to see you soon!
> > Fire In The Hole!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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