After a few weeks of returning home on Thursday night with our fresh white shorts tucked between our legs, this week was a positive change.
That being said only 3 blokes on the team are involved with frisbee girls so i'm not sure exactly how much concern there has been at home.
This week the bugs managed to find a way to create some turnovers on defense, and we also managed to hang onto the frisbee for long enough to score a few points. Slightly more than a few points in fact, we got up to 14. The impressive Gold Coast team also produced 14 points and the first draw of season 2 has been recorded. We have 2 more to go in order to equal last seasons effort.
The game was tight the whole way through with the Gold Coast generating the first up wind break to push the margin out to its largest of the game at 10 - 7. After a short field turn over the bugs manged to punch in an up wind break of their own to bring the game back to even.
Both teams completed many unbroken offensive points during the game in what feels like the new standard in the BPL. If you can't put the frisbee in consistently on offense then you are not up to scratch in the 2010 version of our competition.
The final two points of the game last night were clear examples of this. With the score locked up and time running down both teams had opportunities to break and score for the win. First the Gold Coast worked the frisbee down field with a lot of short and controlled passes. The bugger zone applied some pressure at the pointy end of the game however the Slamtown boys held their nerve and stuck it in to go up 14 - 13.
It was then the Bugs turn to produce and with a short pass from the brick followed by a long bomb the point and the game was over.
In the new and increasingly competitive BPL, teams need to find their way to score despite defensive pressure. It will be interesting to see how all the teams respond to the challenges of our competition.
As for us, we are just happy to be able to report something closer to a win to the girls at home this week.
1 comment:
We're winning spirit though!
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