Ultimate Frisbee Challenge at IIM-Ahmedabad 4-5th July|DAY 1
Posted by subodhsangwan on July 6, 2009
A breezy saturday evening, and the beautiful LKP lawns lit with floodlight – an almost perfect day was made even better with some spectacular ultimate frisbee display tonite.
The three teams – Stormchasers(Mumbai), Indicorp(Ahmedabad) and Flying Dutchmen(IIMA) were out for some great contest on the opening day of the Ultimate Frisbee Challenge. And guess what home team dominated just the way all
the home supporters expected beating both the opposing teams quite comprehensively.
The results :
Match 1: Indicorp beat S’chasers 18-16
Match 2: Flying D’men beat Indicorp 27-17
Match 3: Flying D’men beat S’chasers 25-12
Indicorp were led by the brilliant combination of their 2 star players Jay and Jesse. One of the youngster (prob Jiga) also showed some spectacular throws and collects. Jesse’s 12 feet high collect, flying over 2 offense players and one
of his teammates was the kodak moment of the first match. The Indicorp team deserves a special appreciation for the fact that it was mixed gender team making life really tough for all men opposition team.
Stormchasers put up a good fight in the first game but really lost the plot against in the 2nd game against the Flying Dutchmen.They had a great thrower in Sanal and a few good chasers in Qwick and Jhonny, but it seemed the team had a
few less experienced people as well and this cost them the game. But great spirit shown by them in coming over from Mumbai and making this event possible.
Flying Dutchmen were the team of the day (or night- considering they played both their matches back to back after 9pm). May be no star players like Jesse or Jai but the team was a really well balanced unit with no apparent weakness.
Defense was resilient and impressive to watch , offense was lightning fast leaving the opposition defense chasing ghosts. The domination was so obvious that in the 2nd half of the last game they were scoring freely even with the reserves.
On a technical note – just need to iron out our throwing to make sure that fewer turnovers happen.
All in all a great day of competition. Some great sporting spirit and some great competetive frisbee. Hoping for a even greater final tomm at 9:30 pm, same venue.
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