Sectionals Preview

As it stands right now there are four other teams in our pool: the A-team, UIC, Purdue, and Valpo. However, this may change as Cole thinks Valpo may not be able to make it which would move Notre Dame-B into the five seed in the pool. To be in a position to make it to regionals we will have to break seed and beat one team ranked ahead of us.

Round 1: Since Judson dropped out, we have a first round bye. This means that we can’t come out flat because other teams have had games to work out the kinks. This means that getting a good and focused flow during warm ups is imperative.

Round 2: Our first game is against UIC. We lost 13-3 to these guys at Chicago Invite. This is going to be a tough game, but this will also be the first tourney where we will have our full squad. If we are able to play the type of Ultimate that we have been discussing all season, then there is no reason why this game should be considered an automatic loss. This is one of the three teams ranked higher that we will have to beat to play Ultimate for one more weekend in April.

Round 3: We will play either Valpo or Notre Dame-B depending on Valpo’s situation. At Whitesmoke we lost 13-10 to them, but we did not have our full lineup and from what I heard our play was not at all representative of what our program is about. This game is a must win boys.

Round 4: This game might as well be the showcase game for the entire weekend. We have a tradition of playing our hearts out against the A-team fellas. This game is all about pride. When we played the A-team at club sectionals we showed that we can elevate our game to a new level. I find it rather interesting that the A-team has not asked us to scrimmage them this season (fear?).

Round 5: Cozza and I feel this is the big game on Saturday for us. We need to beat Purdue, UIC, or the A-team for a chance at regionals. I don’t know too much about Purdue and we haven’t played them this season or played many of the same teams they have. Last year we tied Purdue for 11^th. Lets just beat them.

Cozza should be emailing out some notes to everyone today on things to work on. Come to practice so we can work some things out and get our gamed honed for this weekend. Be smart this week with getting your work done, sleep, and eating right. Tourney week, boys. Tourney week.

Boom.