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Sectionals!

This weekend Georgia tries to win their section for the first time since 2009.

Two things going for Jojah:

1) Having home field advantage in lovely Athens, GA at the UGA IM fields.
2) Being seeded No. 1 overall for the tournament.

One big thing going against the dawgs:

1) A field of teams looking to make some noise on their way into the Regionals tournament at the expense of the home team.

The Saturday schedule sets up as such:

10:50 Emory
12:40 East Tennessee State
2:30 Kennesaw State
4:20 Georgia Southern

Follow the action on twitter, the score reporter, or in person!

Easterns 2012

Jojah went 2-4 on the weekend.

While the results from this weekend were disappointing, Georgia competed at a very high level and was never out of any game that they played.

On Saturday Jojah jumped all over Penn State (15-10) and proceeded to lose two games by a combined 3 points against Michigan (13-11) and Stanford (13-12).

Sunday the team came out flat in the prequarters against Illinois and dropped the first half 8-5. They came out in the second half throwing bombs and closed the gap to get Georgia to within one point. Unfortunately they were unable to capture the lead and Illinois pulled out the win and dashed Jojah's championship hopes 15-12.

The team went on to play with looser lines against an out matched Virginia squad and won their second game of the tournament 14-10.

Georgia played a game against Michigan that was weird from the beginning with more uncharacteristic turnovers that plagued the squad late in the previous day's meeting and then a lightening delay. After the break for inclement weather, the team dropped the first half and game out dropping bombs and the offense played defense and got back some of the breaks they had given up previously. Unfortunately the game was capped and Jojah dropped another 13-10.

Here's some pictures!

Sunday morning Brodawgs

Mike Peters doing his tall thing

 Coaches Travis Smith and Davis Waller showing the team that nobody puts baby in a corner

 Fletcher being panther like

Brian Walter facilitating the offense

 

Easterns/New website

Jojah travels to the home of Dawson's Creek this weekend to compete against the most stacked competition of the regular season.

We play Michigan, Penn State, and Stanford (in that order) with the 3:00pm EST game against Stanford being broadcast on the NexGen Network.

This is the team's last opportunity to get strength bids for the Southeast region before the series.

Follow the action on twitter or on the score reporter.

New Website


Jojah is expanding its share of the interwebs and opening up a new website where we hope to share more media and other things of the sort with you in the future.

Check out our work in progress here

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Tally Classic 2012

Tomorrow Jojah rides south again for their first tournament in over a month.


On Saturday the team will face Mississippi State, Winona State, LSU, and Wake Forest.


It's been almost five weeks since the last tournament, and the dawgs have been working diligently to get themselves ready for this tournament. 


It's going to be an exciting weekend, follow the games on twitter or on the score reporter. 

USA Ultimate Rankings/Tally Classic Pools

Jojah ranked 17th in the nation
One of the main motivations underlining every tournament this year for Georgia is getting bids for the Southeast region for Nationals. USA Ultimate released the first rankings of the 2012 college season yesterday, and for Jojah and the rest of the Southeast Region things could not have been better.

Basically each region starts off with one automatic bid regardless of merit. Additional bids (of which there are 10) are allocated based on regional strength/rankings of teams belonging to a particular region in the top 20.

Currently the Southeast owns 4 bids to nationals with Central Florida(10) getting the auto bid and Florida(15), Georgia(17), and FSU(18) earning strength bids for the region.

Grain of salt: It is still a long time before the series and there are many tournaments to be played so these rankings will change in some way.

Tally Classic
In a little over a week Jojah will travel to Tallahassee for their next tournament of the season.

Pools were released today, and Georgia has the No. 1 seed. Huzzah.



 

Florida Warm Up: Saturday

BULLET POINTS:

• Lots of ultimate was played today. From 8 AM to around 7:15 PM, 5 straight games. 
• Jojah went 2-3 in those games.
• Beating USF 15-9 and Florida 15-8
• Losing to Wisconsin in a heartbreaker 16-14, Pitt 15-9, Carleton 15-9
• Jojah faces Carleton in the first round of the championship bracket, Sunday morning.

Warm Up: A Florida Affair

Jojah heads to Tampa this weekend to play some good ultimate teams and work on their tan.


Warm Up is a round robin tournament comprised of several teams with legitimate goals of playing on Sunday at Nationals this season.


Saturday's Schedule


University of South Florida 8:00
Wisconsin 10:30
Pittsburgh 1:00
Carleton College 3:30
Florida 6:00


Same as any tournament Jojah competes in this season, it is important for the team to get positive results against out of region competition. Wisconsin and Carleton were last year's National's Finalists and Pitt finished a modest fifth place, so they provide a legitimate measuring stick for Jojah early in this season.


You can follow live updates on twitter tomorrow, or check the score reporter and see how the tournament is playing out.

Joint Summit 2012

At the end of a long winter holiday filled with family, friends, food, and track workouts, Jojah is packing the bags and getting in the cars to make the soggy hour and a half drive to Clemson, SC for this year's Joint Summit. 


Saturday
Jojah has been awarded the two seed overall in the tournament, so pool play looks like this for the Dawgs:


8:30 Clemson B
10:15 SUNY-Buffalo
1:45 Liberty
3:30 Florida State


Important things this weekend


Bids for Regionals- Although this is the first tournament of the season and blah blah blah, these games matter. A lot. For reference as to how important getting bids for your region can be, see Jojah's second place finish last year at Regionals and subsequent absence from Nationals.


Weather- It's going to rain. Probably a lot. This gives Jojah the opportunity to show some mettle and get it done in the mud and the yuck.

Saturday's Forecast...

You can get up to date information on the team's progress from our twitter and tournament scores and information from the score reporter.

CCC LXI and Jojah 2012

This weekend, a new Georgia team hosts and competes in the Classic City Classic LXI.

Here is a belated introduction to the group of young men who will represent Jojah in the upcoming season:

Veterans

Javid Aceil

Tom Ball

Devin Cox

Justin OfSand

Wright Dickerson

Caleb Edwards

Elliott Erickson

Tyler Halle

Fletcher Hartline

Charlie Herrig

Matt Hess

David Hooten

Nathan Kelley

Max Leonard

Dan Lilley

Mac Little

Cameron Macke

Joey Morrow

Mike Peters

Brian Walter

Rookies

Sheryar "Cherry" Ali

Derrick "Shaggy" Cooper

Joseph "I wear visors" Neder

James "Isaac" Newton

Shawn "Wingman" Paul

Chris "the lost Jonas brother" Rogers

Jonathan "Wu Tang" Tanner
Kyle "Favorite movie is Finding Forrester" Tolbert

Wolfpack Invite: Tryout Tournament

Today, Jojah competed in the first day of its first tournament this season on the campus of North Carolina State University. 

Joining ten returners from last season's Southeast Regional runner-up team are fourteen tryout hopefuls. 

Including:

Alessio Caligari

Andrew Rabanal

Bobby Harrison

Christian Lapp

Christopher Rogers

Derek Cooper

James Newton

Jordan Marchetto

Jonathon Tanner

Kyle Tolbert

 Nicholas Cowman

Ryan Chitwood

Shawn Paul

Sheryar Ali

Jojah's day was by most accounts a success. The team went 3-0 in pool play against Davidson, Duke, and half of UNCW. In the crossover game UGA broke Appalachian State's offense on the final point to squeeze out a 15-13 victory and secure the overall top seed. 

Tomorrow morning at 10:00 am, Jojah begins its road to hopefully a tournament victory against James Madison.

Follow the team's progress tomorrow on twitter.

Classic City Classic LXI

The best college ultimate tournament of the Fall is back again. 


When: November 19-20, 2011
Where:  RYSA Soccer Complex and Earl O’Neal Soccer Complex (Conyers, GA) 
Bid Fee: $375 (Open)
Number of Teams: 20-24


Bids can be submitted now at ugaultimate@gmail.com


Please include:
- Team Name
- Team Contact Name
- Team Contact Phone #
- 2011 USA Ultimate College Series Finish
- Key losses and/or additions
- Team haiku
- Favorite Pokemon and why


In addition to a great tournament, Jojah is also partnering with USA Ultimate's College Season Training and Recruitment (STAR) program. Players from nearby elite teams, including 2009 Open Club National Champion Chain Lightning and perennial Nationals Qualifier Ozone, will be leading both team and individual skills clinics over the course of the weekend. Tim Morrill of Morrill Performance will also be leading fitness and training-related sessions at the tournament. Teams will have the option to pre-register for a variety of sessions that will be available during their bye rounds and during time slots specifically scheduled for the clinics. 


Get your bids in today, get excited.

Fall League 2011 Registration!

Jojah welcomes you to a new and exciting school year at the University of Georgia!

Fall in Athens is known for many things: catching up with friends, going back to the world of academia, football games, and certainly Fall League Ultimate.

Fall League is a fantastic way to meet new people while playing ultimate in a positive environment.

Pick up games (free ultimate!) start August 16 and continue every Tuesday and Thursday until the first day of league play, September 6.

The cost for league is $25 (which includes a T-Shirt).

All games are played at the club sports complex on S. Milledge.

You can sign up at this link!

Georgia Jojahs Place Second at D-I Southeast Regionals

There was a seriousness Sunday at regionals. Jojah was backed up against the wall and needed to win all their games to keep the season alive.

Wide open lines were called throughout the first three games and the culmination of months of hard work ran roughshod over feisty LSU, Alabama, and Tennessee squads.

The finals against Florida is a game that no member of this years team will ever forget.

Thanks to all of our fans and supporters for a great season.

Georgia loses four members of their team to graduation this year:

Michael Slade (5 year player)

Josh "Birdo" Lowell (5 year player)

Matthew Bailey (4 year player)

Michael Young (rookie)

Jojah works hard together so that they can play hard for each other. Our graduates will be missed.

Note: This post will be expanded tomorrow after a certain blogger gets done with a final he hasn't started studying for.

Saturday of Regionals

Today:

Georgia beat Georgia State, Florida-B, and UCF in up and down streaky Jojah fashion.

Georgia drops a close game to Tech.

It was hot outside today.

Tomorrow Georgia finishes pool play against Alabama and LSU to see if they can qualify for bracket play.

If you ain't first, you're last.

Georgia travels to sunny Tallahassee for the Southeast regional tournament. In addition to the change in region, there also is one more variable unfamiliar to the team. There is only one bid to Nationals coming out of the region, so the team only has one option to continue on this season.. win.

Because all tournament formats handed down by the USAU have to be interesting, the fourteen team field will be split into two pools where the top two teams from each pool advance to the semifinals.

Georgia's (updated) schedule:

Saturday

9:00 Georgia State

10:30 Florida-B

12:00 University of Central Florida

3:00 Georgia Tech

Sunday

10:30 Louisiana State University

12:00 Alabama

and then Semifinals/Finals if the team qualifies.

As always you can follow the day's action on twitter.

The tournament formally known as Sectionals: D-I Conference Recap

Georgia realized one goal this weekend, while falling short of another.

Saturday

Georgia only played three games in short succession Saturday afternoon. Starting with University Tennessee-Chattanooga Swamp Donkey. Although Jojah came out with a little rust and number of unforced errors in the first half it was pretty obvious that Georgia had their opposition outmatched. Georgia gives up the first goal of the game and doesn't look back, taking half 7-1 and putting away the game 13-4. Highlights of the game include: Elliott Erickson completing a greatest to fellow rookie Mac Little. Tom Ball completes an upline assist... with his LEFT hand. Insanity.

Jojah followed up their romp of UTC with a match-up against a young program known as Georgia State Underground. This game started off fast for the dawgs with 3 straight breaks as it looked like the team was getting their form back, contesting every throw and cut on defense and moving the disc with great efficiency on offense. To Georgia State's credit, when Jojah got complacent they made them pay. But the bottom line was once again Jojah was too big and fast and they win another game 13-3. Highlights of the game include: Michael Young getting a shoulder high layout block and catching a goal to complete the bookends, Rookies generally doing work, and some guy from Georgia State wearing five fingers shoes while playing.

The last game of the day for UGA was against Georgia Southern. Georgia Southern was far and away the most athletic team Georgia played on Saturday, but the defensive came out attacking early and broke twice to start the game. Georgia Southern threw a curveball in the form of a zone defense that made the Georgia offense work hard to convert opportunities and they were able to break back to put the game back on serve before Hayden Fletcher Fartline, returning from injury, made several diving plays that helped Jojah break to take half 7-6. Georgia's offense locked it up and put the team in position to win the game on defense and the team breaks Southern one more time to win 13-11. Highlights of this game include: Fletcher gave Jojah a ton of effort and lifted the team through lulls in the team's intensity with insane layouts, Matt Bailey made probably the most insane catch of the tournament for the team in a trailing edge snag of a toss from Charlie Herrig for the score, and Birdo threw a Callahan.

By winning all of their games on Saturday, Georgia locked up a spot at the Regionals tournament and a meeting with Tennessee in the conference finals for the following morning.

Georgia slept well Saturday night after an excursion to Golden Corral. Matt Hess also loves wasabi more than any person should.

Easter Sunday!

Georgia slept in a little Sunday morning and got in a good long warm-up before their championship match-up with the University of Tennessee Agent Orange.

Tennessee was certainly the most talented opponent the team faced on the weekend, and first eight points of the game went to serve before Georgia could prevail to get the first break and go ahead 5-4, but the advantage didn't last for long as Tennessee got their break back to go ahead 6-5 and get back on serve. After converting the O-point, the dawgs seized an opportunity generated by Javid Aceil's defense and broke to take half.

Receiving in the second half Georgia converted again to go up 8-6 with a down field connection from Caleb "General Lee" Edwards to Matt Bailey. The defense feeling the mood came down hungry on Tennessee and forced a quick turnover and completed an easy fast break score to take the team's biggest lead of the game 9-6.

Tennessee locked it up and converted their next offensive possession and followed it with a strategic change and started throwing a zone defense at the Jojah offense. The zone proved to be super effective against the team's offense, partly because of Tennessee's execution and partly because of an absence of execution on the part of the offense. The next time Georgia scores is to tie the game at 10's though and after the defense failed to get a break back, Tennessee's zone did not and things were looking very dark for Georgia at a 12-10 score UT advantage.

Jojah rallied to execute the offensive possession and get the crucial break back to tie the game at 12's forcing a game into extra points. Georgia traded points to 14's and pulled to Tennessee for the final point of the game. The defense was tenacious and all down field cutters were shut down, with nowhere to go the UT handler had no choice put to force a dump pass that wasn't open courtesy of Elliott Erickson and Jojah was able to set up an offense on the goal line. Max Leonard looked off a couple of open cuts before tossing a flick to Elliott, but the two were unable to connect and Tennessee got the disc back. For all the teams remaining effort, it was for naught as Tennessee finished the game running a majority of their offense (as they had all game) through their captain Phil Brock.

For the second straight year Georgia finished second place in Sectional/Conference play heading into the regional tournament.

USAU Conference/Sectionals Tournament

This is the beginning of Jojah's 2011 post season run.

The team (at the time of this post) is getting ready to travel to Knoxville "The Marble City" Tennessee for the inaugural Southern Appalachian D-I Conference tournament.

Georgia's schedule for tomorrow looks like this:

1:00 pm UGA versus University of Tennessee-Chattanooga

3:00 pm UGA versus Georgia State

5:00 pm UGA versus Georgia Southern

(updates to the schedule will be posted here upon recognition)

There are five bids to the regional tournament and nine teams in the field. Math says that Georgia shouldn't be terribly worried about extending their post-season into regionals.

Captain Caleb Edwards seems optimistic given the odds, "It's unfortunate that three teams had to drop out. Five bids to regionals is a lot for nine teams. I'm not too good at math but it seems to me that we have a good chance at making it."

Matt Bailey, 5th year player/Captain/Gentleman, doesn't care for probability, "I think the team is confident heading into the weekend. We have five bids but won't need any of the last four. Also, Caleb is not good at math."

You can follow Jojah's progress on the score reporter or twitter.

Easterns recap and Terminus preview

Easterns 2011 by all accounts did not turn out as Jojah had planned.

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.

Easterns Day 1 Recap

Georgia played some games today without much success.

Twitter updates tell the story.

Also, the score reporter and the tournament website.

More detailed recap Monday... promise.