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| Every year D.U.I. puts on a well-run tournament that attracts great teams in multiple divisions. The women's division includes both club and college teams. Usually this tournament is the last chance that Bay Area teams have to play each other before Sectionals, and college teams from as far away as Oregon and Pacific Lutheran University have attended in the past. As a club tournament, D.U.I. provides stiff competition for the college teams, although college squads have found in the past that club teams are not invincible. In addition to the competition, the tournament also provides a free BBQ on Saturday night with a feature game from the elite open division. | |||||||
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Final Finish:
1. Wild Roses
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| Tournament Write-up:
This year D.U.I. had probably the largest college women's division in recent memory, with 10 college teams competing. In addition to the Bay Area teams, UC-San Diego, UC-Santa Barbara, UCLA, and Arizona all came up from the Southwest region, making this the last chance for teams on the west coast to play eachother before the series begins. The next time teams from the Northwest will get to play the Southwest will be at the UPA College Championships. It became rather windy Saturday afternoon and for all of Sunday, so there was a lot of zone played and many games were decided based on upwind breaks. In Saturday's pool play, Stanford pulled a major upset by beating local club team Skyline. Stanford's huck-and-zone strategy paid off and the team won 11-9. The other three pools were each won by the club team playing in them. Pool G and H each had very close contests between competitive college teams. UCLA edged UC-San Diego out 11-10 after being down 6-3 early in the game. UC-Davis beat UC-Berkeley by one point as well. Berkeley was battling back from being down 7-4 at half time, but couldn't complete the come-back and lost 11-12 after the cap. In the pre-quarter/cross over games, Stanford beat UC-Santa Barbara 13-4 after going down 0-3 at the start of the game. UC-San Diego also beat UC-Santa Cruz handily, winning 13-5. Arizona and UC-Berkeley were knocked out by club teams Skyline and Homebrood, respectively. The quarterfinals saw Stanford defeat UC-San Diego 15-2 in a zone game where Stanford was able to generate turnovers on its goal-line to play endzone offense. UC-Davis lost to Fury while UCLA lost to the Wild Roses. UCLA's Anna Navaroz was an impressive handler for her team against a zone, but the Roses' experience far outmatched UCLA's young blood. The semifinals saw Skyline play the Wild Roses and Stanford match-up against Fury. Although one might expect the game between the club teams to be much closer than the game between a club and a college team, it was actually the other way around. Stanford continued to utilize the zone strategy that had been successful all weekend and with one upwind goal in the first half the college girls had built an 8-5 lead against their club mentors. In the second half, Fury answered with an upwind goal and three-point run of its own before the teams started trading points again. The score was 10-10, capped at 12's when Fury's zone offense scored another upwind goal. This time, Stanford answered on the upwind point, lead by the handling of Lauren Casey. Fury scored upwind again to win the game on universe point. In the finals Fury continued to struggle with its zone offense against the Wild Roses. A strong crosswind made Wild Roses' trap zone quite effective and Fury had a number of costly miscues on its upwind goalline. In the end, the Wild Roses won the game by one upwind goal. In the game for 9th place, UC-Berkeley played UC-Santa Cruz. Berkeley's zone offense came together and the team scores a number of upwind points to win the game. This included two no-turn upwinders with over 30 passes each. UC-Santa Cruz struggled to swing the disc consistently in the wind and Berkeley's huck-and-zone strategy was effectively when the team was going downwind. |
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