Saturday
Georgia played 3 pool play games to start their day. I would give a more detailed game by game recap but unfortunately each game followed the same script. Georgia battles early and shows each team that they are physically able to match up against them and holds serve for awhile, then Georgia makes mental errors with the disc (throw aways, drops, poor decisions) and the errors pile up leading to blow out losses to Wisconsin (15-5) and Colorado (15-5) and a more respectable/more painful loss to Michigan (12-9 after being up 8-7).
Jojah faced California in their crossover game and the emotional and physical wear of a day caught up to the team. Unable to execute offensively, California wins 14-8.
Sunday
The men of Athens found themselves in unfamiliar territory on Sunday morning, out of contention for the tournament championship. The surreal weekend continued for Georgia as they dropped a game to UNCW 15-6 after being tied at 3's and losing again to Virginia 15-3 after starting the game losing 9-0.
Georgia's final game on the weekend was recorded as a forfeit, but it should be known that Jojah's rookies faced off Cornell's rookies in a game to 7. The rookies put on a clinic for Cornell, flying blocks and relentless cutting on the part of the rooks earned them a W and helped ease Georgia's heavy hearts on the way out of Wilmington.
College Terminus
Needless to say there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth within Jojah following Easterns, but the sun rose again on Monday and Georgia rose also, ready to learn from a weekend full of... teachable moments. Fortunately they have the chance to get over last weekend with College Terminus, Jojah's last tournament before the College Series.
For those of you familiar with College Terminus tournaments of years past the following will not surprise you.
There will be weather.
Georgia has games Saturday at the Georgia Soccer Park against Illinois, Dartmouth, North Carolina, and Oberlin College. Full tournament schedule found here.
Jojah loves its fans, if you're in the Atlanta area this weekend please stop by and watch the team compete. And if you can't come by Jojah's twitter will be getting updated all weekend.
