From Mjbdisc@aol.com Thu Aug 3 12:08 EDT 2000 Received: from imo-r03.mx.aol.com (imo-r03.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.3]) by cs.brown.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19987; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:08:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Mjbdisc@aol.com Received: from Mjbdisc@aol.com by imo-r03.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id 6.f5.17ed5c9 (3849) for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:08:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:08:25 EDT Subject: RIPUL - August 3 To: Mjbdisc@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 107 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Length: 5042 Status: RO People: The season is quickly winding down so now is as good a time as any to start generating feedback from people regarding RIPUL such as: * The schedule - too many games or not enough? * Spirit - any problems? * Captains - did they involve you in the action, did you get enough play time, anything good or bad about them * Level of Play - too competitive? not enough? * Improvement - did your skills improve * Anything else you care to share Also, I would like feedback on playing at Wheeler. There is a definite possibility that next year ALL games will be out there. Is that a problem? Would that make you less likely, more likely, or make no difference in deciding whether to play RIPUL next summer? As for next Saturday's tourney at Wheeler, expect to be out there all day 1st game starting at 11:00 AM so be there by 10:30 or so. We will divide the teams into 2 pools of 4 based on the regular season standings. Pool A will be teams 1,4,5,8 and Pool B will be teams 2,3,6,7. Every team will play 3 pool play games to 13, hard cap at 15, (1 timeout/half and a floater). The winner of the A and B pool will play in the Finals in a game to 15 or 17 (to be decided by the captains and myself) while everybody else gets to munch out on whatever food Dave Toohey will prepare for us. There will be no beer provided (sorry, Wheeler doesnt allow us). We will provide bagels and bananas and will have igloo containers on each field so bring water bottles to fill up. After finals, we will have an awards ceremony where we will present the following awards: Male and Female "Toby" award winners for the top player who best exemplifies the ideals of RIPUL Male and Female Most Improved Player Individual Trophys to each member of the Championship team MONDAY AUGUST 7 GAMES: Key Lime v. Denim - Moses Brown Purple v. Black - Wheeler Gold v. White - Wheeler Berry Red v. Pine - Wheeler On to the action from last night: Gold 17 Denim 13 (by Captain Chia of Denim) Denim again started out strong with a 4-1 and then 6-2 lead, but Gold shorthanded (which they are used to) clamped on a zone and took half 9-8. Brian Sheehan was tenacious on the Deep D. as his mind would wander and dreams of Guinnesses danced in his head (he and his wife Cara of Gold are going to Ireland this weekend) and drool fell from his mouth. While on the opposite side of the field Scotty Wiant played some curious D. as Cara scored on a big deep play. Scott must have been preoccupied with having his first beer ever, at Olivers later that night, I guess, he just turned 21, news report is that he had about a half a keg last night. On a serious note, Denim did play quite strong and but had some trouble with the Zone D. and was only able to break it a few times. Some great plays by Chris Horn where he pulled down some Toohey hucks. PURPLE 13 Berry Red 12 (by Captain Fred of Purple) The first half was back and forth and taking a long time. Game was called to 15. Purple had no subs and forced to play zone D for the entire game. Not to worry though since that is the team's strength. Half ended with Red on top 8-6. However, near the end of the half, Red's Pranay went down with a rolled ankle. He was out for the game and severely impacted Berry Red's offense. The second half opened up with Purple scoring 5 unanswered points putting the score at 8-11. However, Red came right back scoring 4 out of the next six points tying the game at 12. Due to darkness the game was capped at 13. Back and forth went the point with players concentrating on avoiding collisions as much as winning. A series of turnovers occurred and the last happened close to the Red endzone. Purple pushed it in and finished the dark game on top 12-13. Hats off to Berry Red for hard fought games with the most spirit. Fouls were called and accepted without argument; hands shook; and the play was intense. Thanks red and we'll see you in the playoffs. Thanks to Mike Schein for carrying the team with leadership on the field. Here's to Joanne Hsu and Stephen Richard, two beginners who played the whole game w/o subs. WHITE 17 KEY LIME 7 (by Captain Olivier of White) White defeated Key Lime 17-7. Scott Martin and Thea played great for lime, as usual. Libby was a force on both O and D. White really hit its stride in this game though, playing hot man D and moving the disc well against lime's zone D. Lucky was unstoppable, and Allen Bonner metamorphosed into a thrower, with several key hucks. BLACK 17 PINE 9 (by Loring of Black) Half at 9-2 black, green went on a 7 point run to make it 9-9, black went on a 8 point run to win the game. Green was missing both Michael Franz (major ankle problems) and Evan Pierce (hamstring problems), and black had more subs than they had in a while. This was the last game this season for our co-captain Moses Rifkin - he's off to a little tournament in Germany... STANDINGS: Gold 10-1 Purple 9-2 White 8-3 Denim 5-6 Black 5-6 Pine 3-8 Key Lime 3-8 Berry Red 1-10