Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Nationals: Quick Re-Cap of Days 1-3

This will be quite brief as I need to go to bed, since I have Semis tomorrow at 9:00 AM. Go Team Box!

On Day 1 (Sunday): We went 2-1, winning two games quite easily against teams from Brisbane and South Australia. Then we lost a close, windy, zone based game against Wildcard from Sydney.

On Day 2 (Monday): We went 2-0 and won a very close game against Ishtar from Melbourne. We took half 8-3 and narrowly hung on to the second half 9-8. Then we beat South Side from Sydney in a close one as well.

On Day 3 (Tuesday): We went 2-0 and beat the Sugar Magnolias (from Canberra?) at 8:30 and narrowly beat the undefeated NoNoNo from Sydney (15-13) in a high speed, huck filled game. I caught a long goal and also threw a goal and got some Ds. NoNoNo are an experienced group of women that have played a lot of club and world championships and don’t bother with practice or plays. They are very talented. Winning that game allowed us to keep the 1 seed as, only 2 of the top 6 had only 1 loss (Team Box and NoNoNo) and we beat them head to head.


Day 4 preview:
At 9:00 AM, as the 1 seed, we will play the 4 seed: South Side (again) from Sydney. If we win that, we’ll play the winner of the other Semis: Wildcard (Sydney) or NoNoNo (Sydney). We are proud to represent Victoria and Melbourne in a comp that is otherwise dominated by that other city with a fancy opera house (who cares!). We are healthy, amped and skipping the party tonight to get some rest.

There will be pictures and more details later, but this is a quick update. I am having a great time.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

way to go box!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!we are cheering like crazzy in maryland,kentucky and nc.
i got up in thye middle of the night to check your score against
no no nos.
great article you did with accenture.

GO BOX, GO BOX, GO BOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sj

amy said...

Woohoo congrats and good luck!

Anonymous said...

I just looked at the scores - you're in the finals! There are so many damned teams in the finals that I don't have a clue what that means, but we'll pretend I do. So congrats!

Anonymous said...

Oops. That last one was me. I know how you hate not knowing.

Den.

courtney said...

Mom, Amy & Dennis: Thanks for all the support! (Especially Dennis for the considerate understanding of my neurosis!