USC Men's Ultimate

The Ghettobirds traveled to Las Vegas last weekend to play in the mega tournament, Trouble in Vegas.

It was cold. It was rainy. It was windy. It was awesome.

The Birds were placed in a pool with Notre Dame, Whitworth and UConn to play on Friday. All of these teams come from climates with much more weather than Los Angeles, which is a good thing most of the time but not so much during Ultimate tournaments.

We played UConn in the first game, at 12:30 on Friday, and came out firing. After starting out on defense, we went up a break as Chandler caught a deep huck in the endzone (which he mistakingly threw back up in the air thinking he was out of bounds…luckily Alan was there to catch it) for the first points of the day. We went on to score again to go up 2-0 and it seemed we had more energy than Gus Johnson (if only he were commentating our games). Yet, UConn battled back and took half 7-5. We came back out of half fired and up, despite the unfavorable conditions, were down 8-7, yet UConn scored 2 straight points to take the game in Soft Cap 10-7.

Next up was Whitworth from Washington. We stayed with them but they were able to pull out the victory 13-7. Lastly, Notre Dame won 13-0. We just couldn’t put get our act together and just seemed out of sync.

On Saturday morning ,we woke up at 6am and played Colorado State, who went to regionals last year, at 8. We took half them won 11-9. It was a gutty performance and one we need to duplicate in the future.

After that, however, the tournament was canceled because the fields were too muddy and, like last year, we would have torn them up. Cultimate didn’t feel like paying a huge sum to repair the fields. So, we retired to our party house, hit the top tub and game room, then the Strip until 6am. Twas a great time. Next up, San Diego!