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.
