While sectionals might not offer the marquee matchups of a tournament like ECC or Labor Day, more reps together is always a good thing, and this year it did feature our first game of the season against a local rival in Boost Mobile. On Saturday, we won our three pool-play games against Sky Club, PHTB (Cal) and Bromuda Triangle (Chico, Sonoma and Humboldt), with scrimmaging and drills in between. For our semifinals matchup on Sunday morning we met Bromuda Triangle again before finally facing off against Boost in the finals. We did a good job of bringing up our level of play for this game after having lost a little intensity in earlier rounds, and our defense clamped down early. Mark Sherwood set the tone with a layout D in the end zone on our first defensive point, and we earned four breaks en route to half at 8-4. After trading for a few points out of half, Cassidy Rasmussen made a nice layout grab on a dying huck for the O-line score at 10-6. Our defense came back to life and earned a few more breaks and the 15-7 win – our first championship since Japan! After a few more weeks of training and practices, we’ll be hoping for another at Regionals in Ripon, CA.
San Francisco Bay Area Ultimate