From Mjbdisc@aol.com Tue Aug 4 15:21 EDT 1998 Received: from imo24.mx.aol.com (imo24.mx.aol.com [198.81.17.68]) by cs.brown.edu (8.8.5/8.7.1) with ESMTP id PAA17539; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:20:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Mjbdisc@aol.com Received: from Mjbdisc@aol.com by imo24.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id XXLHa22588; Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1743fcf8.35c75c9b@aol.com> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 15:10:18 EDT To: Mjbdisc@aol.com Cc: Peterd@daddario.com, William_Binder@Brown.edu, wdbrown@Brown.edu, vet@svmmarcom.com, gvincens@cfa.harvard.edu, jww@Brown.edu, fjm@Brown.edu, Sbhazard@aol.com, cmcphers@neuron.uchc.edu, dgold@Brown.edu, mmontoya@umassd.edu, Migsteele@aol.com, 103322.307@compuserve.com, chambos@msn.com, bsheehan@gtech.com, JDY103@uriacc.uri.edu, johnbuck@sea.ece.umassd.edu, codiga@urca.gso.uri.edu, csuchman@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu, lsh@cs.brown.edu, mkd@cs.brown.edu, Evileye147@aol.com, Gidon_Felsen@Brown.edu, LAParham@aol.com, Adam.Turner@jacobs.com, adamturner21@hotmail.com, coxt2@BDD.com, scottmartin@compuserve.com, PDidome629@aol.com, ericweis@brainiac.com, Chowdah@Richmondsq.com, slandman@snci.com, diamond@bucknell.edu, clark@vsi-ne.com, TCDonaldson@compuserve.com, drosenb1@emerald.tufts.edu, srim@risd.edu, lwalden@risd.edu, LUV@Brown.edu, julie_ann_kim@Brown.edu, colleen_reid@Brown.edu, daphna@Brown.edu, paula@rafos.gso.uri.edu, Eli_Rosen@Brown.edu, EliRosen@aol.com, amcginn@igc.org, DLevit@Lifespan.org, Matthew_Kromer@Brown.edu, rayr@auke.gso.uri.edu, WrathofDog@aol.com, Nibblit@aol.com, MPBite@aol.com, cjensen@po1.arn.com, RHolt@corp.olin.com, Todd_Yellin@Brown.edu, KOTAKOBY@aol.com, cmmarlio@ultranet.com, Jhkurn@aol.com, Daniel_Ewing@Brown.edu, NBarnett@aol.com, roottwo@MIT.EDU, Shoshana_Cook@Brown.edu, Winston_Lee_MD@Brown.edu, Beaker@Brown.edu, Pnut@Brown.edu, Raymond_Yang@Brown.edu, Daniel_Cogan@Brown.edu, dcogan@yahoo.com, JPopowski@Hasbro.com, erice@ontko.com, mrz@Brown.edu, Ringo18603@aol.com, amir@cs.brown.edu, dpoznik@Brown.edu, chad@nedigital.com, jmc@cs.brown.edu, tmcbride@ti.com, jkarlin@ibm.net, airdale@hotmail.com, ecga@juno.com, PBeard@risd.edu, ar@ddatasys.com, Thomasdeluca@earthlink.net, As650@osfn.org, shepdog@iname.com, phall@bobbyorr.gso.uri.edu, Pistons11@aol.com, jpark@ti.com, Lily_Huang@Brown.edu, Jana_Zeljkovic@Brown.edu, Smchung@tiac.com, sunshine@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu, ritam@ma.ultranet.com, FullerKB@aol.com, ride8835@ride.ri.net, Raju_Goyal@Brown.edu, Michael_Anthony_Passero@Brown.edu, Jackson_Loomis@Brown.edu, Rachel_Hale@Brown.edu, Lizj@Brown.edu, Christopher_Passero@Brown.edu, LMisch@ti.com, kmn1@duke.edu, jkercheval@wesleyan.edu, aweisman@bigpicture.org, David_Ornan@Brown.edu, abrahamson@email.mc.ti.com, at322@osfn.org, Gabriel_Cronin@Brown.edu, 102515.2666@compuserve.com, dps@math.brown.edu, Yonaton_Aronoff@Brown.edu, JBenson@IDS.com, TM12077@Prodigy.net, mrothman@compact.org, Bbur1195@uriacc.uri.edu, heaney@iname.com, steveo@netsense.net, alden_goat@hotmail.com, jdhakes@hotmail.com, au862@osfn.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Summer league - August 4th Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 5944 Status: R It's 6:15 PM on Monday August 3rd. The crowd is beginning to show up for RIPUL's 3rd Summer League Championship. The Red team is busy huddling together to discuss strategy on the chalkboard. In contrast, the Purple team is just hanging out, not overly concerned seemingly with the game. Flip Williams best exemplifies Purple's laid-back approach as he shows up late, as usual, with a cigarette in his left hand and a cup of java in his right hand. Purple received the disc first and executed flawlessly in punching in the 1st score. Flip predicted this to be a bad omen as Purple has been a notoriously slow starter. Purple was able to score the next goal also. As expected though, Red fought back, as they did throughout this game. The score went back and forth and I believe Purple had either a 6-4 or 7-4 lead when red made a run and tied the game at 8-8. Purple took the half though at 9-8. The 1st half was full of some very exciting action by both teams. There was excellent offensive flow by both teams, hard-core man to man defense by both sides, and some super exciting hucks and layouts. Fortunat, in particular, seemed to control the air traffic coming down with numerous defenses. Tom grady also made a couple of highlight-reel catches. For Red, their offense involved around Pranay "Projo" Parikh, Captain Fred, and Bob "young at heart and mind" Yakota hucking to their women June Park and Carolyn Grimes. (As a side note, I just wanted to point out that the reason Fortunat is able to come down with so many contested discs in the air is because he figures out where the disc is going to land and then gets a running start in order to get up higher in contrast to what most people do which is to simply figure out where the disc is going to go and then jump off 2 feet). Like the 1st half, Purple started off strong and jumped out to an 11-8 lead. Undaunted, red turned up the defensive pressure once again and score 2 goals to make it 11-10. Purple matched the Red run and took a 13-10 lead. The next point Purple had 2 good opportunities to jump out to a 4 point lead but blew scoring opportunities near the Red goalline. Red was able to score the next 4 goals and took their 1st lead of the game at 14-13. The crowd was clearly rooting for Red (everybody loves underdogs I guess) and the crowd was getting into it. Purple was able to tie the game at 14 but red scored the next goal to make it 15-14. Purple once again tied the score at 15 but Red was able to score to make it 16-15, hard cap at 17. Purple was in an unusual position. We had not had a single really close game at the end. Purrple received the disc and worked it down the field but turned it over. Red returned the favor though. Adam Turner of Purple threw a forehand flick to Fortunat in the end zone. Scott Martin had close coverage and both misread the disc. Fortunat went up for the disc but it went over his head. He quickly adjusted and as the disc was just about to hit the ground he made an unbelievable lay out grab to tie the score at 16. Next point wins. Fortunat pulled the disc and, as he did so many times throughout the game, he was able to pull the disc deep into the Red end zone. Pranay went back to catch the disc and it appeared as if he dropped the pull. That was not the case though. Red was able to complete a couple of throws to work it out of their end zone. A throw went up the right sideline and Fortunat poached off his person to make the defense. Nobody was open for Purple on the turn so timeout was called. Very smart play. Purple completed like 3 passes and the disc was in Flip's hands about 10 yards from the end zone. Fortunat ran straight by Flip on his left (the short side of the field) and Flip threw Fortunat a scoober throw (an upside down forehand) for the win. This was IMHO by far the most competitive, intense, well-executed, and good- spirited game RIPUL has ever had. Both teams played really hard. For my team, I can definitely say that every single person on our team stepped it up a notch last night and played better than they have all summer. Red also played great but from where I stood Fortunat was the difference in the game. He scored or threw for at least half of our scores, if not more, and he was all over the field on defense. There was some great individual matchups as well especially between Pranay and Tom Grady. Both are great athletes but Pranay has more experience and was able to do just enough to get open despite numerous attempted layout blocks by Tom. It's too bad we didn't videotape the game because it would be certainly worth watching again. The party was alot of fun. Toohey barbecued burgers, hot dogs, and veggie burgers and there was enough food for everybody. After dinner, we had the awards ceremony and the winners were as follows: MVP/TOBY (male) - Fortunat Mueller (Purple) MVP/TOBY (female) - Lori Parham (Straw) Best Newcomer/Most Improved (male) - Raju Goyal (Grey) Best Newcomer/Most improved (female) - Jana Z. (Black) Most Spirit - Blue Team On behalf of RIPUL, I want to thank everybody for participating. This was a great season overall as the level of play really stepped it up. Hopefully, we can build on our momentum and make next year even better. On that note, if anybody has any suggestions/improvements, send them along. Also, if you want to help organize, let me know. We could use the help. BTW, the PJB had a big article on us in yesterday's Providence Metro section. There were lots of pictures and a decent article. For those who havent seen it, the article can be read either on our web site or PJB's. For those who want to continue playing, we will have pickup at Hope High every Monday and Wednesday at 6:00 PM until further notice beginning TOMORROW. Also, if you want to play competetively with a club team this fall, let me know. that's all folks. thanks for a great season. mjb