Thoughts.

Went to Mars in Pittsburgh this weekend with the Dartmouth 08s, henceforth known as the “Booyaks.” Played five games in all–it was a 3-day tourney, but we left to get back in time for Monday classes and had to skip the final day’s games, as well as the final game of our third day (we didn’t want to wait after a thunder/rain delay).

I played pretty well. We were completely free subbing, I didn’t play as much as I would’ve liked to perhaps but it wasn’t bad at all. We played well overall, still developing some synergy, but we’ve got a lot of talent and lots of little bits of chemistry going so that’s a plus.

I didn’t keep track of too much–I considered keeping a point diffy for when I did play, but didn’t think of it until the second day and I couldn’t keep track. I could, however, keep track of my huck success %, which was a solid 7 for 9 going into the last game of the tourney before I flubbed a forehand huck (which I never do anymore) and had a huck to Sadie poached by some tall guy on the other side of the field, and only barely. I was 4 for 5 on Saturday, 3 for 6 on Sunday. Sunday had more wind, Saturday was pretty calm, but overall I’m pretty happy with that kind of success percentage. None of them were bad looks, I think, the only turns I did have were execution errors, save the poached D.

For the record, improving my deep looks is probably priority #1 when playing with the 08s this summer. Working on deep cutting and defense should come with Chuck Wagon, I’m hoping.

Defense was not a primary consideration for me this weekend (hi Dusty), though it certainly wasn’t horrible. Had more than a couple lapses either due to a lack of focus on playing from coming up with a good heckle (hi Dusty) or looking to poach and getting burnt for it.