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From: wmd4@student.open.ac.uk (Wayne Davey)
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:54:14 -0000
Subject: National Indoors Report
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NATIONAL INDOORS
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(I'll leave the full results service to someone more organised)
What a tournament!
It was the closest Nationals (in or out) that I can remember. We had
four
quarter finals of real quality, in which you couldn't have predicted
the results.
Druids beat Chevron in sudden death to prevent us having one semi
finalist
from each region.
UTI beat Shrub by a few points but we really had to play flat out to win
against a very determined side.
Sorcerors stunned all us soft Southerners by going 4-0 up against
temporary favourites Chineapple Punks (who the day before had beaten
Druids to win their pool). They held on, despite a comeback and
shocked both Punks and everyone else by the speed of their play.
Red also raised their game and only just lost to an increasingly
excited Ow team (who beat UTI for the first time on Saturday).
The semis reverted to old order. The Druids looked invincible against
a suddenly very fragile Ow. They raced away to an early lead and all
of a sudden it seemed very easy for them. This was quite a recovery
after being something like 9-6 down against Lurkers in the pool play.
We (UTI) played the surprise (to us) team of Sorcerors. Our defence
produced several turnovers against their high risk play and we too
ran away with our semi winnning something like 11-6 in the end.
This lead to a repeat of last year's final, with the exception that
this team we had more of our regular players.
The Druids played a zone defence at the start which they had used
to great effect in the last few points against Chevvy. They got a
couple of turnovers and took a 4-1 lead. We came back somehow to level
at 4-4 before they got a 2 point lead.
Then followed 20 minutes of faultless offence as we traded with no
turnovers despite furious defence from both sides. Druids 2-up
then 1-up then 2-up etc....
At 12-10 to Druids the deadlock was broken.. we got a turnover, scored
and the crowd got excited (there was now 1 minute to go and Druids led
by just 1).
I can't remember how but we got another turnover as the clock ticked
down.
30 seconds to go. We moved the disc around and then scored (Alex Bowers)
with 2 seconds left. It was called back for a travel. Alex then got
a layout score in the other corner to tie the final and make it game
to 14.
We got another turnover and Colin got his flipper assist. On the
last point Rick Shipley tried the same at the other end which would
have been a neat finish. However by now we were getting plenty of
turnovers and soon had another chance.
The final score was 14-12, Druids long reign (last 4 nationals) was
over.
Men of the match were birthday boy Rick Shipley and Dave Trovell.
Thanks to Wayne Retter and especially Chris Hughes for running the
tournament,
Wayne Davey
UTI
(Commiserations to Guy Bowles and Steve Shipley who decided to get
suntans instead.)