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Yeshiva Sunday May 13th, West Windsor Fields Game time at 3, the Kosher Cruiser rolls in at 10-till. The have legitimate dry-fit uniforms with matching team yarmulkes (I think Clockwork should get these next year with the eye on top). We have a rock-solid 14-man squad which made subbing easy (I love the whole-sale), but Big Al was a no-show. This was Yeshiva's second ever intercollegiate game, but I think they could have beaten Ramapo. Our D looked terrible in the beginning. Yeshiva's guys would generally make an in-cut out of the stack and then hang around for 5 extra seconds clogging. We shut down every in-cut, but then their man somehow got the disc while he was clogging and not moving, prolly because we expected them to clear. In anycase, we traded points to 1-1, then we rolled off the next 6 to take half 7-1. Taint showed up during the game and said, "I will play, but I don't have to play." I decided this meant he should play. I was wrong. First point in, Clock worked it down the field when Christie throw to a wide open taint in the endzone. Taint almost caught this disc (that was right to him and floaty) 3 times, before collapsing to the ground. If you see taint around campus with his hea d down, muttering to himself, this is why. At 6-1, we called a timeout near the endzone. We set up Boston Surprise, but ended up running the "Surprise Boston Surprise." in this version, the handler fakes to the person laying out for nothing, everyone yells and screams, then the person (Jorge) who layed out for nothing gets up, continues the cut and scores. Good stuff. We rolled in the second half to win the game 13-2. The rookies played really well. I was pleasently surprised how seemlessly they went from being role-players to being the dominant players on the field for a game. Even though the opponents were weak, the confidence level and aggressiveness were really good to see. Pinky and the Brain were both virtually unguardable and touched the disc a lot. Gibbs looked very comfortable handling, as did Mik (no joke). Swede looked good. The first two stack points, the flow was non-existent and the stack was too far from the handlers, but from then on it looked very tight. The upfield throws still an area of need for the youngins but I liked that they weren't afraid to make them in this game. Even the pulls were better as Greg, Gibbs and Brain had legitimate pulls, and Mark did get his pull past the brick-mark ... we wont say which brick-mark. Adam Hugh had a couple of nice layouts from the handler spot to save turnovers, and play ed extremely well all game. We were on west-windsor, so Jorge's hucks were good. Reading the Disc is still a major area of concern. We continued playing them after the game. This was fun ... lots of scoobers. On one less-than-pristine scoober in the endzone, brain was running and hit the disc trying to catch it knowcking it behind him, then had a full-extension layout for the score. DB also throw a scoober for a score. James Yan played well all day, but should work on his hammer in the off-season. Overall, I thought this game was extremely promissing for future years' prospects. Once the rookies iron out their upfield flicks and learn to read the disc, they will be unstoppable. The intelligence level was very high in this game, which is what seperates our rooks from normal rookies. They were chilly and generally made the right decision. Good stuff all the way around. Yeshiva was a good bunch of guys. Its unfortunate that they can't play in tournaments (the whole saturday shabbat thing), but I foresee the Princeton-B-Yeshiva match becoming an annual event. Mazel-Tov! -Rafe P.S. (Petums, where are all the other MOTS? Post-Dean's Date, we better be getting some MOTS.) 
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