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.

T-Town Throwdown 2011

The Season Begins

... in lovely Tuscaloosa, AL. Seriously, check out the weather.

January?

That isn't even the most exciting thing about this weekend, because among the 26 members of Jojah travelling to play this weekend veterans Matt Bailey, Charlie Herrig, and Brian Walter supported by rookies Tyler Halle and Michael Young are all making their first tournament appearances with 2011's team.

Excitement is the word. Because after two and a half months and after a winter break of a little blood and a lot of sweat and vomit, Jojah takes the field of competition again.

Georgia gets the third overall seed this weekend so Saturday's schedule looks like this:

9:00 Mississippi

10:30 Vanderbilt

12:00 Harding

1:30 Rhodes

3:00 Florida State

That's five straight games Saturday for the team which you can follow on twitter or see results on the score reporter.

Merry Christmas!

Jojah wishes everyone a safe and joyous holiday!

picture of the live nativity scene at Jojah's Christmas extravaganza

Recap: Classic City Classic 2010

Jojah in the huddle (This picture and all subsequent pictures Courtesy of Jordan Echols)

As fate has it, 2010 was not the year for Jojah to capture the illusive Classic City Classic championship, but for the first time since 2004 a team not from Madison, Wisconsin won the tournament... (Congratulations to the University of Florida)

The weekend was a tale of two different days for the dawgs.

Saturday

Georgia started its morning warm-up a little tardy, as many members of the teams were still taking care of the loose ends of running a tournament. The rushed warm-up had little carry over into the first game, as Jojah got a break on the first point of the game. Despite looking a little out of sync at times, Georgia works out most of the kinks and moves forward with a 13-7 victory.

The second game of pool play was against Kennesaw State. Jojah was able to contain the people who throw to Taylor "Tree" Goforth and roll to a 13-4 victory.

Georgia has a bye round after that game and starts back with "Team 3" the University of Alabama. Georgia get two breaks early to go up 3-1, but this momentum stalls a little as Bama introduces the first true zone defense the dawgs see this season. Alabama gets a break back and Jojah takes half at 7-6. Although it wasn't recorded what Coaches Davis Waller and Rob Herrig said at half time, it must have been pretty incredible because Jojah's second half against Alabama was probably their most dominant half of the tournament. Running the competition ragged was a motif of the half, but big plays by Fletcher Hartline and Elliott Erikson kept the team's energy high and Jojah puts together a perfect half to win 13-6.

UNC Darkside was the most even match up for Jojah on Saturday, as both teams had rolled through the rest of the pool. Darkside had brought a small, boisterous army and with that came a a much higher level of intensity. Jojah rose their level of play and produced many defensive plays including lay out blocks by Michael Slade, Tom Ball, and Michael Peters. Play of the game: deep throw goes up to UNC receiver and Daniel Lily closes and skies for a huge block in the back of the end zone, resulting in one of 3 breaks Jojah gets in the game. The dawgs grind out a 10-9 win at hard cap.

Dan Lily, shutting his man down on D

Sunday

Georgia came out Sunday morning with two more players (the formidable Birdo and some guy named Matt Hess) but with much less in the way of team energy compared to Saturday.

Jojah played the University of Virginia Night Train in the morning quarterfinals match-up. This game was all Virginia as they capitalized on all of Georgia's mistakes. Georgia loses in a sloppy 15-4 rout.

Max Leonard surveying the field

Jojah's next opponent was the University of South Carolina. South Carolina had made some noise on Saturday, beating Virginia and challenging Florida, and they brought the fight to Georgia early getting three early breaks. Georgia began to take back the momentum with a few breaks of their own but it wasn't enough as the teams traded points from early in the second half all the way to a 15-14 South Carolina victory.

The final game of the weekend was played against James Madison University. This game was close for awhile and Georgia shows spots of energy and good play, but the tournament had finally gotten the best of the Dawgs. Jojah loses to JMU and finishes 8th in the field.

Statistics!

• Georgia played 143 points on the weekend, but only the first 122 (through the South Carolina game) were recorded in statistics.

Team Leaders in points played

• Max Leonard 85 points (69.7% of points)
• Fletcher Hartline 82 points (67.2% of points)
• Michael Slade 78 points (63.9% of points)
• Caleb Edwards 77 points (63.1% of points)
• Tom Ball 74 points (60.7% of points)

Team Leaders in Goals received

• Max Leonard 11 goals
• Fletcher Hartline 9 goals
• Caleb Edwards 8 goals
• Elliott Erickson 8 goals
• Dan Lilley 5 goals

Team Leaders in Assists thrown

• Max Leonard 15 assists
• Michael Slade 9 assists
• Caleb Edwards 7 assists
• Cameron Macke 7 assists
• Fletcher Hartline 6 assists
• Tom Ball 6 assists

Team Leaders in defensive blocks

• Elliott Erickson 8 blocks
• Fletcher Hartline 7 blocks
• Michael Slade 5 blocks
• Michael Peters 5 blocks
• Javid Aceil 4 blocks
• Daniel Lily 4 blocks

Team Leaders in retention % (minimum 20 touches)

• Mac Little 96% (25 touches 1 turnover)
• Max Leonard 91.9% (99 touches 8 turnovers)
• Cameron Macke 91.6% (71 touches 6 turnovers)
• Tom Ball 89.4% (66 touches 7 turnovers)
• Fletcher Hartline 87.2% (39 touches 5 turnovers)

Other Interesting Things (THANKS STATISTICS!)

• Three players didn't have a turnover this weekend (Brad Glisson, Tyler Haskell, and Devin Cox)
• Devin Cox also had 3 goals in 5 touches.
• Michael Slade touched this disc a lot. 107 times actually.
• Matt Bailey apparently played 20 points and had 2 turnovers...
• Taylor Nilan tweeted around 73 times (Thanks to Taylor, Cali, and other alumni/fans for coming out!)

Jojah gets down on the pull