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Jared Hirsch Memorial Tournament (Rutgers) Day One: Got to go to brunch before the tournament... Money in the bank. Game One: Princeton vs. Columbia The first game of the day was scheduled to begin at 1:30 in the afternoon and the tone for the first match was unfortunately set by a James Yan email sent at 2:30 am, titled "i am disappointed" and detailing his unfortunate lack of drunkeness on his 21st birthday... Also, Tomi was at home building a bar. Clockwork got off to a slow start against Columbia's stronger than anticipated huck-heavy offense. The fields were shorter than Tomi's temper and the good guys went down 6-8 at the half. However we tightened up the execution on offense and Brain and Mik came through for some lay-out D's to push us to a 15-13 victory. Game Two: Princeton vs. The College of New Jersey James Yan's hangover continued and Clockwork came out to another slow start against another team that relied on the huck for most of their points. Mik had left to help with OA training and thus we lost our only black player for the game. TCNJ also unveiled their secret defensive weapon, a superheroic figure only known as travel-calling lacrosse dude. Thanks to a combination of their ability to catch swilly hucks, a lack of intensity on D and of course the eagle-eyes of travel-calling lacrosse dude (with the ability to see a travel a field away...) the good guys were again down at the half. After half-time we switched to a no-huck force which galvanized (that's a GRE word for you Tomi) our defence. Clock battled back to win on universe (!!!) 11-10 thanks to a dose of Petum's brilliance. Game Three: Princeton vs. George Washington (G-Dub): We got some fresh legs for this game as Tomi and Potter, whose new vampiric tendencies mean that he can't play in sunlight, arrived for this game. The first half was close fought with G-Dub taking half by a slim margin. We came out of the half well, going up 9-8 when the soft cap went off, but beating G-dub managed to elude us once again as some solid play from our opponent meant that they won 11-9. Tomi had some great skies, and handlers went the extra mile and often played as cutters to alleviate the pressure of our low numbers. (*cough*sophmoresneedtoshowuptopracticeandtournaments*cough*) We then had a couple hours of break before our night game where we sat around and gave each other sexy back massages. Mik came back, and thanks to a team guilt trip, Miheer arrived as well. Game Four: Princeton vs. Bucknell: This was a team that we had a very close game against last year in regionals and we came fired up to win and stay in the championship bracket. A burning desire that was only tempered by the fact that our legs felt like chunks of metal after Brain's leg workout and a day of ultimate. This actually worked out in brain's advantage because robots use metal for fuel. Who knew? We traded points with Bucknell with neither team able to break the other's offensive flow. Near the end of the half we managed to snag a couple breaks, taking half. Bucknell refused to let up after the half, and thanks especially to one of their players who was extremely atheletic, kept the game very tight until we reached 12-12. Clockwork managed to work the disc down the field, whereupon Petums unleashed a dubious I-O flick to Mik in the end zone. Dubious turned out to be genius as Mik came up with a super sick layout catch for the win on universe point. Bergman played very well this game as well, making a lot of solid deep cuts. Day 2: My morning started out with a scavenger hunt around Scully to try and find Jason Yun, who was MIA in the morning. He decided not to come, making my run in flip-flops worthless... Jason Yun, you owe me a testicle. Game One: Princeton vs. Pittsburgh: We came out really fired up for this game as Pitt is always legit and went to nationals last year. They were playing mainy rookie cutters, but had a lot of athletic players. Thanks to some great offensive flow, we went up 4-1, but Pitt brought it back to 7-7 going into half. On this point, thanks to confusion and hasty, ill-taken decisions, we were stopped on the end zone line three times and Pitt won to take half. This was a blow, and in the second half our offensive execution was severely lacking, leading to an unfortunate 12-14 loss as we scored the final point with the hard cap on. If we keep working hard and doing conditioning though, it felt like we could run with the players that we brought, so keep up the training and fitness work... Sophmores. Also Taint's layout D in the back of the end zone was nasty. Game Two: Princeton vs. TCNJ (round 2): We began this game as baller as the large black man who invented the term boo-yah, (ask Mik about this one) and a combination of very hard defense and flowy, effective offense led to us taking half 8-2. The winds of change had shifted on travel-calling lacrosse dude, and his team began to turn on him. On his first attempted hammer huck, his team was heard to mumble: "stall one? Are you kidding?!." One the second, the choice comment was: "SOMEONE CUT HIS ARMS OFF!!!" We continued to dominate, only letting up slightly to allow several more points with the final score at 14-6. Highlight of the match was Burnham's nice O layout followed by a brisk bulldozing from his defender. Game Three: Princeton vs. Lehigh Lehigh was a team that we had beat on universe point at the same tournament last year so we knew it would be a tough game. They also had close to double our numbers, so fatigue looked like it would play a big part. We played with them hard for a couple of points at which point Mik hyper extended his knee while attempting his second run through/layout D on their quickest player. As our cutters' numbers dwindled and their energy levels fell, handlers were left with fewer and fewer options, shutting down our offense. Lehigh scored several points in a row at the end of the match as we just couldn't run with their cutters, and we lost with a final score of 9-12. Thanks to everyone who came out, including freshman Mini Gibbs and Isaac... Count it. Isaiah 
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