Practice week 3/Club sectionals day I

Practice week three: freshmen love the team, they are coming out every day. Looking like Brian might coach us.
Nice.

Sectionals day 1
Game 1 vs Zoji
They were deep and despite repeated turnovers we could not capitalize enough. Also got broken a lot. Not the worst but we don't have the legs to beat a team like that yet.

Game 2 vs Depends on the Gun Toting Pinatas
Whatever you want to call this team, they are still very good. They ran through their women and every once in a while one of their dudes would do something awesome. Due to a distinct lack of Shockey we had air superiority but that was about it and we lost 15 - 4 despite some good flow, some good points and our women working very hard to stop a very talented girlsquad.

Game 3 vs Stomp
We came out expecting to win and basically just won despite a late game comeback. They outscored us by one in the second half, but at the end of the day it was our outscoring them by four in the first half that made the difference. The game got kind of chippy and due to some endzone celebrations by not JT Dave a few of their players have no love for us. It happens.

Game 4 vs Columbia Mixed
Went up 5 - 1, lost half 8 - 6, then 10 - 6, then 12 - 10 us, then we won. Never been prouder to be part of this amazing group of people and that is saying something. We showed how mentally and physically tough we can be and noone gave up on the game. I nearly did after turning some deep hucks during zone points and hanging a lot of other players out to dry, but after a few points off I realized that would be a terrible way to end the tournament and that was that. Everyone came together and a lot of players really pulled out all the stops with their zone defense, running them into the ground and getting D's.

Many of our players were straight up horses and just worked hard all day. Many decided to put their skills on display and make ridiculous circus catches. It was a good day for the Heroes and if we can ball tomorrow we might just make regionals.

Great first day.
Onward Has Heroes!