From Mjbdisc@aol.com Fri Jul 5 13:58:51 2002 Received: from imo-m09.mx.aol.com (imo-m09.mx.aol.com [64.12.136.164]) by cs.brown.edu (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g65HwoQi002053; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Mjbdisc@aol.com by imo-m09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v32.21.) id z.11e.13293305 (30952) for ; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:57:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Mjbdisc@aol.com Message-ID: <11e.13293305.2a5737fc@aol.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 13:57:16 EDT Subject: RIPUL - July 5th To: Mjbdisc@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_11e.13293305.2a5737fc_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 259 Content-Length: 16056 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 6889 --part1_11e.13293305.2a5737fc_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People: Hope you are all having a happy 4th. A few annoucements: 1) There is disc every Sunday at Goddard Park in Warwick starting around 1:00 P.M. Directions are on the web page www.ripul.org. Everybody is welcome, regardless of whether you joined summer league. 2) People need to start arriving earlier. As the year gos on, we will have less light at the end of the night. All games MUST start NO LATER THAN 6:15 P.M. Monday July 8 KIWI v. PURPLE - Baseball Diamond WHITE v. FOREST - Soccer Field next to Road DENIM v. BURGUNDY - Soccer Field next to Woods BLACK v. ORANGE - Single Soccer Field on Walker Wednesday July 10 KIWI v. FOREST - Single Soccer Field WHITE v. PURPLE - Soccer Field next to Road DENIM v. ORANGE - Soccer Field next to Woods BLACK v. BURGUNDY - Baseball Diamond RESULTS - MONDAY JULY 1 Purple 17 Black 13 Unfortunately for the winless Black, Purple showed up with all their big guns and, despite a strong effort, was unable to contain Cutter's long throws to assorted receivers and was unable to play an effective zone D because Purple has so many capable handlers. White 17, Burgundy 9 (Brian from White) White brought a very small squad on the hottest day of the year. Kit and Justin looked very nice in street clothes as they cheered from the sidelines. Aparently, White's game against Orange last week, which I missed, was an injury fest. Most came from one play where Scott Wiant of Orange was chasing a hospital pass and knocked down scores of White players like bowling pins (this is almost completely made-up, but I'm going with it anyway). Burgundy capitalized on the turnovers its zone produced in the first few points with smooth handling from Emily Bubbers, Will Arnold, and Jeff. Sorry I don't know which Jeff (Burgundy has two), but I will go on record as saying that RIPUL has too darn many Jeffs! I don't have a problem with any particular Jeff (or Emily-- Burgundy has two of those too), but seriously how many do you need? White is used to a height advantage, but was missing several players and Burgundy is also a tall team, so Burgundy actually had the advantage in this game. Nevertheless, White decided to use an agressive fronting D to save their legs, hoping they'd either get the block or the point would end quickly with a score. White also countered Burgundy's measured attack with a series of 4 or 5 beautiful long strikes from Jeff Fleischaker to Adele, Kira, and Cletus (Dave B.) getting open long. He followed that up with about 5 throwaways in one point, but no matter, the damage was done and the deep game opened up the field for White. Except for the hell point just before half, this was a well-played game on both sides. Burgundy just doesn't drop anything-- they have a number of women, Brown players, I'm told (don't know names, I'll just play the odds and call them all Emily), who just hauled everything in. However the White D was as stifiling as the humidity and despite a talented handling core which also included Pranay, Burgundy was was forced into difficult throws by White's man-to man and had trouble gaining yardage against its zone. Player of the game award for White goes to Brian Nicholas for holding his own D-ing up the more experienced Will Arnold. Burgundy's player of the game would have to be Emily Bubbers who was completely chill and moved the disc no matter how often the Z trapped Burgundy on the sideline. WEDNESDAY JULY 3 Denim 17 Black 15 Denim only had 8 players but they had all their best players: Scott, Bob Yakota, (who claims his summer league team has never lost a game he has attended - this is not verified), Lucky, and Heidi. Black was desperate for a win and had plenty of subs. Denim lead 11-8 when Black put together a run tying the game at 12. The teams traded back and forth but Denim's chilly O was too much. White 17, Kiwi 10?11? Loring-- do you have the score? (by Brian from White) This was the deja vu game: Again White had low numbers (I played the whole game despite a cooler full of tasty beverages calling to me on the sideline). Again we got off to a shaky start (Kiwi took the early lead). Again White had two injured players on the sideline (this time Andre & Bobbers). But once again White put on a strong run to take a big halftime lead on another muggy scorcher of a day. Kiwi is not afraid to play a non-traditional game. They came out early with a spread offense, isolating Scott Martin one-on-one. Despite the iso being shut down, the three handlers back managed to dump-swing well initially, though White stopped that fairly quickly. Kiwi had more success running out of a stack and they were able to switch from the spread to the stack offense confidently. The game was played on a very short field which put a damper on White's long game. Several passes, as well as most of the early pulls, went out the back. This was not a hucking game for White due to slippery hands, the extremely short field, and Kiwi's style of defense. Kiwi also plays an unusual D. They often mark straight up and have the dump's defender poach the lane. I'm not sure why they don't force one direction to make the poacher more effective. White's handlers would throw leading passes toward the sidelines away from the poach or throw to the dump who would quickly get it out. 3 highlights: Scott Martin's layout grab in the end zone of a breakmark backhand up the line from Brian Sheehan. A sick collision between Deepak Ramani (Kiwi) and Aaron Seider (White) as Aaron went airborne to bid on a disc up for grabs that Deepak was also determined to get. Fortunately Deepak only got the wind knocked out of him, but the noise was like something you hear in NFL Films. A Silliest by Dave Buckingham of White on a full field throw by Jeff Fleischaker. A silliest can happen when a long pass crosses the perimeter line and isn't coming back in bounds. If it lands out, it is put back into play where it last crossed the line. The 10th Edition changed the rules so that if an offensive player jumps from in bounds and touches the disc, even if he make no attempt to "greatest" it back in, it is put into play near where he touched it. So Cletus didn't maintain possession but made the difference between Kiwi getting the disc on their goal line or ours (only about 50 yards on this field) with this extra silly-looking play. Colin (darn, two of those on this team) had some nice grabs for Kiwi and the defensive battle between him and Loring Holden was fun to watch-- Loring came up with a couple big d-blocks. Eric Weiss of White was solid despite painful back spasms and Kira Lawrence bailed out several of of our poor throws as always. Kiwi had some others who played well, but I can't remember names. This one guy I suspect is a robot, his foot realignment procedure after an ankle twist was something out of Terminator. Human feet don't do that. Kiwi seems to have some options off their spread/iso offense and they will be tough when they really get it down. Their robotic feet will also be a big advantage, except when it rains. Kiwi's player of the game award goes to Kali Cheung who caught numerous goals while toeing the lines despite being matched up against White's top women including Kira Lawrence. Player of the game Julie Stein really stepped up for White with some very precise handling in the second half when everyone else was getting sloppy-- always getting open and advancing the disc with pretty throws. --part1_11e.13293305.2a5737fc_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit People:

Hope you are all having a happy 4th.  A few annoucements:

1) There is disc every Sunday at Goddard Park in Warwick starting around 1:00 P.M.  Directions are on the web page www.ripul.org.  Everybody is welcome, regardless of whether you joined summer league.

2) People need to start arriving earlier.  As the year gos on, we will have less light at the end of the night.  All games MUST start NO LATER THAN 6:15 P.M.

Monday July 8

KIWI v. PURPLE - Baseball Diamond
WHITE v. FOREST - Soccer Field next to Road
DENIM v. BURGUNDY - Soccer Field next to Woods
BLACK v. ORANGE - Single Soccer Field on Walker

Wednesday July 10

KIWI v. FOREST - Single Soccer Field
WHITE v. PURPLE - Soccer Field next to Road
DENIM v. ORANGE - Soccer Field next to Woods
BLACK v. BURGUNDY - Baseball Diamond

RESULTS - MONDAY JULY 1

Purple 17 Black 13

Unfortunately for the winless Black, Purple showed up with all their big guns and, despite a strong effort, was unable to contain Cutter's long throws to assorted receivers and was unable to play an effective zone D because Purple has so many capable handlers. 

White 17, Burgundy 9
(Brian from White)

White brought a very small squad on the hottest day of the year.  Kit and Justin looked very nice in street clothes as they cheered from the sidelines.  Aparently, White's game against Orange last week, which I missed, was an injury fest.  Most came from one play where Scott Wiant of Orange was chasing a hospital pass and knocked down scores of White players like bowling pins (this is almost completely made-up, but I'm going with it anyway).

Burgundy capitalized on the turnovers its zone produced in the first few points with smooth handling from Emily Bubbers, Will Arnold, and Jeff.  Sorry I don't know which Jeff (Burgundy has two), but I will go on record as saying that RIPUL has too darn many Jeffs!  I don't have a problem with any particular Jeff (or Emily-- Burgundy has two of those too), but seriously how many do you need? 

White is used to a height advantage, but was missing several players and Burgundy is also a tall team, so Burgundy actually had the advantage in this game.  Nevertheless, White decided to use an agressive fronting D to save their legs, hoping they'd either get the block or the point would end quickly with a score.  White also countered Burgundy's measured attack with a series of 4 or 5 beautiful long strikes from Jeff Fleischaker to Adele, Kira, and Cletus (Dave B.) getting open long.  He followed that up with about 5 throwaways in one point, but no matter, the damage was done and the deep game opened up the field for White.

Except for the hell point just before half, this was a well-played game on both sides.  Burgundy just doesn't drop anything-- they have a number of women, Brown players, I'm told (don't know names, I'll just play the odds and call them all Emily), who just hauled everything in.  However the White D was as stifiling as the humidity and despite a talented handling core which also included Pranay, Burgundy was was forced into difficult throws by White's man-to man and had trouble gaining yardage against its zone. 

Player of the game award for White goes to Brian Nicholas for holding his own D-ing up the more experienced Will Arnold.  Burgundy's player of the game would have to be Emily Bubbers who was completely chill and moved the disc no matter how often the Z trapped Burgundy on the sideline.

WEDNESDAY JULY 3

Denim 17 Black 15

Denim only had 8 players but they had all their best players:  Scott, Bob Yakota, (who claims his summer league team has never lost a game he has attended - this is not verified), Lucky, and Heidi.  Black was desperate for a win and had plenty of subs.  Denim lead 11-8 when Black put together a run tying the game at 12.  The teams traded back and forth but Denim's chilly O was too much. 

White 17, Kiwi 10?11?  Loring-- do you have the score?
(by Brian from White)

This was the deja vu game:  Again White had low numbers (I played the whole game despite a cooler full of tasty beverages calling to me on the sideline).  Again we got off to a shaky start (Kiwi took the early lead).  Again White had two injured players on the sideline (this time Andre & Bobbers).  But once again White put on a strong run to take a big halftime lead on another muggy scorcher of a day.

Kiwi is not afraid to play a non-traditional game.  They came out early with a spread offense, isolating Scott Martin one-on-one.  Despite the iso being shut down, the three handlers back managed to dump-swing well initially, though White stopped that fairly quickly.  Kiwi had more success running out of a stack and they were able to switch from the spread to the stack offense confidently.  The game was played on a very short field which put a damper on White's long game.  Several passes, as well as most of the early pulls, went out the back. 

This was not a hucking game for White due to slippery hands, the extremely short field, and Kiwi's style of defense.  Kiwi also plays an unusual D.  They often mark straight up and have the dump's defender poach the lane.  I'm not sure why they don't force one direction to make the poacher more effective.  White's handlers would throw leading passes toward the sidelines away from the poach or throw to the dump who would quickly get it out.

3 highlights:  Scott Martin's layout grab in the end zone of a breakmark backhand up the line from Brian Sheehan. 

A sick collision between Deepak Ramani (Kiwi) and Aaron Seider (White) as Aaron went airborne to bid on a disc up for grabs that Deepak was also determined to get.  Fortunately Deepak only got the wind knocked out of him, but the noise was like something you hear in NFL Films.

A Silliest by Dave Buckingham of White on a full field throw by Jeff Fleischaker.  A silliest can happen when a long pass crosses the perimeter line and isn't coming back in bounds.  If it lands out, it is put back into play where it last crossed the line.  The 10th Edition changed the rules so that if an offensive player jumps from in bounds and touches the disc, even if he make no attempt to "greatest" it back in, it is put into play near where he touched it.  So Cletus didn't maintain possession but made the difference between Kiwi getting the disc on their goal line or ours (only about 50 yards on this field) with this extra silly-looking play.

Colin (darn, two of those on this team) had some nice grabs for Kiwi and the defensive battle between him and Loring Holden was fun to watch-- Loring came up with a couple big d-blocks.  Eric Weiss of White was solid despite painful back spasms and Kira Lawrence bailed out several of of our poor throws as always.  Kiwi had some others who played well,  but I can't remember names.  This one guy I suspect is a robot, his foot realignment procedure after an ankle twist was something out of Terminator.  Human feet don't do that.  Kiwi seems to have some options off their spread/iso offense and they will be tough when they really get it down.  Their robotic feet will also be a big advantage, except when it rains.

Kiwi's player of the game award goes to Kali Cheung who caught numerous goals while toeing the lines despite being matched up against White's top women including Kira Lawrence.  Player of the game Julie Stein really stepped up for White with some very precise handling in the second half when everyone else was getting sloppy-- always getting open and advancing the disc with pretty throws. 

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