CAUA Sponsored Round Robin

Today Georgia travels back to Charlotte for a Saturday Round Robin with some pretty fierce competition.

Here is there schedule for tomorrow:

10:00 am - University of North Carolina-Wilmington

11:30 am - University of Michigan

1:00 pm - University of Virginia

2:30 pm - Queen City Thunder (Charlotte's Club Open team)

4:00 pm - North Carolina State

Follow the day's progress on twitter and the score reporter.

Jojah is coming off a productive week of practice and is excited to play in what should be a very competitive day of Ultimate.

Queen City Tune Up: Sunday Recap

Jojah gets rowdy on Sunday, photo credit to Rachel Voyles

Pre-quarters

As a result of Georgia's streaky Saturday and unfavorable point differential, a North Carolina State rematch awaited the team early Sunday morning. Learning about how an abbreviated warm-up can affect your play the previous day, Jojah jogged the parking lot and did their pre-game routine in tennis shoes. The effects of this were apparent early in their first game, rattling off three breaks to start and not looking back. Georgia rolls a scrappy NCST squad 15-8.

Dan Lily cares not for your foolishness

Quarters

Georgia met a hot Michigan State Burning Couch in this round. Georgia was playing the roll of underdog for the first time in the tournament, so it was a combination of uncharted territory and maybe some trepidation that led the dawgs to make some uncharacteristic mistakes and give up two breaks early. Jojah calls a timeout, regroups, and brings the fight back to Michigan State. Offense executed at probably their highest level of the tournament and Defense threw a zone defense that Michigan State had no answer for. Georgia plays a very solid game against a good team and wins 12-10.

Semifinals

Deja vu! Georgia meets Ohio State University LeadBelly in the semifinal round. The team's legs work very effectively in this game, but their minds seem to be left behind. Jojah threw the same zone that worked so well in the Michigan State game at Ohio State with mixed results. On one hand it forced some very low-percentage throws over the top, on the other hand these throws were converted more often than not. To OSU's credit, they converted on the mistakes Georgia made with the disc and threw many different defensive looks at the team. For all their fighting and effort, UGA only has a 12-9 loss to show for it.

3rd/4th placement game

Georgia, obviously deflated from their disappointing loss to Ohio State, had to face the other team from Ohio (also known as Ohio University). In the first half Georgia played flat, the sidelines were silent, and the fans were not entertained. Ohio takes this half 8-4. A crossroads at halftime for Georgia, mail it in and call it a tournament or play Georgia ultimate. Fortunately for the morale of the team, Jojah chose the latter and fought hard to work their way back into the game. UGA wins the half 8-7, but they lose the game 15-12.

Noteworthy things

• Elliott Erickson is asserting himself as a force on the D-line, getting huge blocks and being unstoppable cutting under/preserving possessions for the defensive offense.
• Dan Lily played some good offense. Also Michael Young, Matt Hess, Devin Cox, and Josh "Birdo" Lowell played fantastic together in zone defense.
• Ohio State went on to lose in the finals game to Michigan, 15-10. They also lost the finals of T-Town by the same margin to Florida after playing UGA. Coincidence?
• Rookies jumped on a grenade, inspiring Charlie Herrig to do the same.
• So many parents and fans came and watched, which was incredible. Thanks to everyone who came out, Jojah loves their fans.

Matthew Bailey jumping over local guerrilla rebels

STATS

Points played

• Matt Bailey 98 points
• Max Leonard 85 points

Goals received

• Matt Bailey 17 goals
• Elliott Erickson 13 goals

Assists thrown

• Matt Bailey/Charlie Herrig 14 assists
• Max Leonard 12 assists

Retention Rate

• Tom Ball 94.9% (119 touches)
• Charlie Herrig 93.5% (108 touches)

Defensive Blocks

• Matt Bailey 15 blocks
• David Hooten 11 blocks

Turnovers

• Michael Slade 16 turnovers
• Matt Bailey 14 turnovers

What's next?!

Jojah is nearing midseason, the rest of the pre-series schedule looks like this:

• Feb 26-27 Round robin with UNC, UNCW, NC state, and Michigan (Location TBD)
• March 19-20 College Easterns at Wilmington, NC
• March 26-27 College Terminus at Atlanta, GA

Queen City Tune Up: Saturday Recap

Jojah played three games today per some sort of cross over pool play.

Semi-regular tweets tell the point by point story of the day, but in summary the Georgia men had a difficult time playing with intensity until they found themselves in early deficits against both North Carolina State and Clemson. Georgia pulled out both games by breaking their way to half and playing solid second halves to the win (15-10 against NCST, 12-11 over Clemson). Georgia vs. Notre Dame was a different style game. UGA breaks three times to start the game, and despite a Notre Dame two break run to tie the game at 5's Jojah rolls to a 14-8 victory.

Neat things that happened today:

• Mike Young had crazy flying blocks on defense and great possession saving catches on offense.
• Mike Peters didn't get any shorter, made some clutch deep plays on both sides of the disc.
• Matt Bailey played solid ultimate, rookies tried to kill him with terrible throws.
• The rookies found a way to persevere on an extreme marathon point with Notre Dame.
• Charlie Herrig made the play of the day. On universe point against Clemson Charlie goes upline for a back hand, makes an athletic catch and ends up getting wrecked by a Clemson player trying to poach the block. Charlie completes the catch/mini-concussion, and throws the game winning assist to Brian Walter.
• Jojah ran the longest cool down lap ever today. Seriously, like a kilometer.

Jojah plays Sunday morning in the pre-quarters at 9:00 against a currently unknown opponent.

T-Town Throwdown 2011: Recap

Over the last few weeks Mother Nature has limited Jojah from getting the field practice they would ideally get leading into a tournament. The lack of practice was a motif of the weekend as the men worked out the dynamics of playing with a new team.

Saturday

Georgia played five games in a row for pool play. Although the Dawgs didn't blow away the competition with particularly clean play their edge in team depth, endurance, and tenacity proved to be the difference as they rolled over-matched squads from Mississippi, Vanderbilt, Harding, and Rhodes.

The fifth game of the day was Florida State, which made for the most dramatic game of the day thanks to big plays, chippy exchanges, and hard running from both teams. The first half ended on serve with UGA up 6-5. In the second half Georgia goes on a three break run in the second half only to have FSU come charging back and take two for themselves. Jojah closes out the game amidst some questionable calls/discussions about calls from both teams, 11-9.

Other important things that happened Saturday:

-Hayden Fletcher Hartline breaks his collarbone. Brodie Smith was not involved.

-Mike Peters gets leveled by a former University of Alabama football player in a showcase game.

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY

Jojah's quarterfinals opponent was the home team, the University of Alabama. Tim Brady and Alabama pushed Georgia to the brink and even had a late lead at 11-9, but Georgia's legs won the game and broke Bama on universe point to win 15-14.

The semifinals brought Georgia to a different field for the first time all weekend and to an Ohio State team that walked over Williams in the quarters 15-7. Jojah's legs carry them to half on serve with Ohio State 8-7. Coming out in the second half to serious up-down field wind, Georgia's lack of practice rears its head with some unfortunate breaks and the dawgs go down 12-9. With one more big push left, Jojah ties the game at 12's. The next point proved to be the critical moment in the game. Georgia gets the turn and works the disc with patience, dumping and swinging, and running some of the better defensive offense of the tournament before turning it over on the goal line. After that it was downhill, OSU converted and broke UGA twice to end the game 15-13.

Neat things on Sunday

-Hedges threw a bomb to Max in the OSU game. There was much rejoicing in England, where his grandfather is a knight.

-Charlie iced some bros.

-Slade's head busted itself open on an OSU player.

-Elliott Erickson played some crazy defense and demoralized/shut down some of the best players for Alabama/Ohio State.

STATISTICS*

*Mostly complete

Team Leaders in points played

• Matt Bailey- 91 points (64.5 % of total points)
• Max Leonard- 82 points (58.2% of total points)
• Caleb Edwards- 76 points (53.9% of total points)
• Tom Ball- 67 points (47.5% of total points)
• Michael Slade- 64 points (45.4 % of total points)

Team Leaders in Goals received

• Max Leonard 12 goals
• Matt Bailey 11 goals
• Elliott Erickson 10 goals
• Caleb Edwards, Michael Slade, Brian Walter 6 goals
• David Hooten 5 goals

Team Leaders in Assists thrown

• Matt Bailey 18 assists
• Max Leonard 11 assists
• Caleb Edwards 9 assists
• Cameron Macke 6 assists
• Brian Walter, Tom Ball 4 assists

Team Leaders in Defensive Blocks

• Elliott Erickson 10 blocks
• Mike Peters 6 blocks
• Matt Bailey, Michael Slade, David Hooten 5 blocks
• Tom Ball 4 blocks
• Max Leonard 3 blocks

Team Leaders in Retention Percentage (minimum 20 touches)

• Caleb Edwards 97.12% (1o4 touches)
• Elliott Erickson 96.6% (29 touches)
• Max Leonard 95.3% (107 touches)
• Matt Bailey 92.8% (97 touches)
• Michael Slade 90.4% (94 touches)

Other interesting things

• Four players didn't turnover the disc this weekend (Mac Little, Devin Cox, Matt Hess, Justin OfSandre)
• Georgia broke their opponents 34 times (24% of points)
• Georgia was broken 15 times (10.6% of points)
• An all rookie line went on a 6 break run on Rhodes College, it was awesome.
• Peter Dempsey was in attendance. and he tweeted. He's a swell guy.