Classic City Classic LIII Recap

This past weekend, Jojah went 5-3 and finished 4th at Classic City Classic LIII. I'm not going to give a lot of details about most of the games because I don't really remember games all that well.

Saturday

Saturday started out at 6:00 AM for the team. The weather forecast projected a snow flurry. At 6:30 AM, we were driving to the fields in a heavy snow storm. All the hours of lining fields for for nothing, as the snow piled on the fields. The conditions for this tournament were the worst conditions UGA has ever seen at a CCC tournament. On Saturday, the high for the day was 41 F. For Sunday, it got over 40 F for only a couple of hours.

Round 1 - Emory

Emory was a great first opponent. Jojah was psyched to play our first game of the season against a team with 2 Club Champions on it (Robert Runner and David Berendes). Also, most of the team had never played ultimate in the snow. Jojah won this game 13-8. The defense in the second half put this game away. After the Emory game, the snow stopped coming down.

Round 2 - Delaware

For information about this game, read the game notes on this one. As a team, we didn't mark particularly well. It showed as Delaware broke the mark time after time. We need to work on covering handlers better. Delaware played with a lot of resilience.

Round 3 - Georgia Southern

We beat Georgia Southern 13-10.

Round 4 - Auburn

We beat Auburn 13-7.

Round 5 - Michigan

Last year's CCC was straight up disappointing for UGA as we lost on universe point twice (v. Michigan and Notre Dame). Michigan beat us later in the year at Huck Finn. This was a game everyone seemed to focus a lot on. Matthew Bailey had one of the best games of his career on Saturday, as he scored 4 out of the 7 goals in the first half (he went on to score more goals in the 2nd half). Peter Dempsey, hit Bailey multiple times deep.

The second half saw Michigan generate 4 breaks in a row, making the score 8-8. Georgia then went on a defensive surge to finish the game 13-9.

Defensively, we had a complete game. We caused turnovers, and we turned a lot of the turnovers into breaks. Dustin Graham had a show stopping, shoulder high bid for a D, only to be called back by a foul on the mark. Big plays came from Peter Dempsey, Andrew Mistretta, Charlie Herrig, and Matt Bailey.

Sunday

Quarterfinals - Clemson

Apart from the weather and field conditions (freezing and frozen, respectively). Georgia played a pretty complete game, winning 15-9. Clemson's Ben Slade took over and threw for just about every Clemson score. Once again, Jojah's marks looked weak as Clemson's handlers were able to break at will.

Semifinals - Wisconsin

Wisconsin has won this tournament a lot. We watched them play their final points against Notre Dame in the Quarterfinals and were excited to play them. We started the game off in 3 straight breaks. Wisconsin called a time out to regroup.

We took half at 8-5. After a couple of points after half, things started happening to Georgia. Our defense was unable to stop or make adjustments on Wisconsin's handlers, whom were able to work the disc up the field effectively. Also, we got tired as a team. Our lack of practice and workouts were on display as Wisconsin simply ran us into the ground. We had opportunities to capitalize on breaks in the second half and were unable to convert. Wisconsin capitalized on all of Georgia's mistakes in the second half.

Wisconsin won this game 15-12. Overall, this game was the most fun and physical games we played in this weekend.

Fourth Place Consolation - Georgia Tech

We lost to Georgia Tech 13-10.

After our defeat, AJ made us run a lot.