Recap Of Winter Indoor Sports

* Downward Spiral shoulda been our team name for b-ball this year. We started out 4-1 and finished the season 5-5. We actually finished 4th out of 10 in the league so that's a positive. This league has a goofy playoff schedule so we played one game for 3rd/4th place. We lost in overtime but it was a really fun game to play in. Scott was on fire for most of the game and myself and Jay put together solid 2nd half. We were down 8pts at halftime and Jay tied it by hitting both free throws with 40 seconds left. In the 2 min OT we didn't score and they went like 4-6 from the FT line to end our season with a loss.

* In February I played in my first full indoor Ulti tournament since Feb/March of 2004. I played with a group of SZ guys and it was an all day Saturday tournament at the Y in Minneapolis. We went 7-0 in the tournament to take home the championship. I played pretty good all day until finals. I was bad then and so was our team. We turned it over a lot and they had a 1 break lead for much of the game but in the end we pulled it out winning 11-9 or so. My highlight of the tournament was throwing 3 wrist flips for scores to Naz, Jeremy and Dean.

* Last weekend was my 2nd indoor Ultimate tournament on the year. This was the annual St. Cloud indoor and we had a Luckydog alumni team plus a few SZ guys. This year we finally took home the championship after losing in finals 4-5 times. We went 6-0 for the weekend. Played 3 games in the new dome and 3 in the fieldhouse with new floors. Wish they had that stuff when I was in school. Saturday's games were lame for the most part, but the first point of the weekend for me I caught a huck from Todd on the goaline and threw another wrist flip for a score to Erik. 4/4 on indoor wrist flips this year, toot toot. Sunday's games were more competitive. In quarters we played Luckydog and it was a repeat of last Octobers alumni game. We jumped out to a quick 3 goal lead and it seemed to really put Luckydog in a hole. I think we won like 11-7 or so. In semis we played a pretty good Gustavus college team. We got the first break and we traded points a lot. Then Bon Bons dropped a pull and they scored to get the break back. We traded points some more and we finally got a two goal lead at 11-9. Time cap went off when they scored to make it 11-10. At this point it was a straight game to 12. We had the old school Luckydog line in with me, Naz, Todd, Raeker, and DK. We received and Raeker turned it over trying to hit me in the endzone. We got it back and Raeker turned it over trying to hit me on the goaline (just like the old days). We got it back again, Raeker got back at least one of those turns. 3rd possession of the point Raeker hucked to Naz but it was looking too deep, I followed the play an yelled to Naz: "Naz, Greatest!" Naz jumped from inbounds on the back of the endzone, grabbed it and threw and upside down backhand to me standing all alone in the endzone to win it. Finals was against a St. Olaf team coached by current SZ captain Dave Truesdale. In this game Vu got us off to a quick start and we jumped up 2-0. We eventually got a 3 goal lead and we won 12-9.

* So 5-5 in bball and 13-0 in ulti. It was nice to be able to play both sports this winter after a 2 year absence. Looking forward to next winter when we try to defend both titles.

Ultimate or Disc Golf?

Not to be confused with an old post titled Ultimate and Disc Golf. After tearing the old ACL in 2005 I had planned on taking the 2006 Sub Zero season off. Rest my knees and rehabbing to try and get ready for the 2007 season. Last year I played more disc golf then I had the previous 5 years combined. This is my post about the age old question of which disc sport I'm going to play in 2007. Ok, it's not 'age old question' but lots of people have asked me what I'm going to do. The one thing for sure is its a really tough decision.

* Ultimate is still my true love. Playing in college with Luckydog and playing with Sub Zero was a blast every season. With Luckydog we always had a winning record and came up a short going to Nationals in my last 3 season. Playing with Sub Zero included 5 trips to Nationals and 1 to Worlds in 2002. Playing at Nationals is the biggest reason that I want to play with Sub Zero again. There is nothing like that 3-day weekend of the best Ultimate in the country. I definitely want to try to play again and see if I can compete at a high level and help my team. * Disc Golf last year was a ton of fun. Playing in those leagues and setting up tournaments with friends was a sweet. Obviously I had so much fun with it since this has become a hard decision to make. If I stick with DG I'll want to keep playing in those leagues and maybe do a couple tournaments as well. I want to see where I'm at this year compared with some of the elite players in this Twin Cites and maybe even out of state.
They both have their own pros and cons. Soon enough I'll make the decision and either way I'm sure it'll work out.