Captain's Log: 91706

Captain's Log: 91706

West Plains Coed Sectionals were this weekend held in Jefferson City, Missouri, by way of Columbia, Missouri. The fields we nice, the weather was a little on the rough side. Brutal sun on Saturday, then wind and some rain on Sunday. I think the wind and rain were picking up as our game ended, though.

The tournament festivites started Friday night as Xtina and Stu hosted us for dinner. Plenty of Mexican food to go around. The night continued at The Hot Spot, a local bar in Kirksville, Missouri. There were two people inside when we showed up and the bartender/locals gave us some "are you folks lost?" looks. By the time we had been there for about an hour, the lady bartender started giving us all sorts of cheap and free drinks. Yet, at her most generous, we left...sorry lady. We headed two blocks across the way to a bar that I can't remember the name of. It was the "college" bar in Kirksville with loud current music, pool tables, a much cleaner, trendier atmosphere, and a shuffleboard table. I like bar shuffleboard a lot, but didn't end up playing. After the bars shut down at 1:30, we went back to X's abode. There was more drinking, eating of stale cheese dip, hula-hooping, boat races, disc-throwing, and right before bed, Jaeger bombs. There was some confusion as to who actually won the party.

Saturday morning had us driving two hours to Jefferson City to play games against St. Louis, Soy Nuts, Columbia, and Truman State.

I think we played St. Louis first and beat them 11-3. Then Truman State 11-3. Then Columbia 11-5. Then Soy Nuts 11-8. The Soy Nuts game was closer than it looked. Whereas most of our games were 6-0 or 6-1 at half, the Soy Nuts game was 6-5 us. Then tied at 7-7 and 8-8, I think, before we won 11-8. Their whole team played well and Kirk had some great upwind forehand hucks for them.

Overall, the day was hot and I didn't pay attention through most of our games. The most exciting parts were the milk games. Oh, and seeing Shawn on the toilet in the bathroom, for the toilets had no stalls doors. There I was looking for the toilets and I come across one with Shawn on it. At first I was embarassed at having come across the toilets when I wasn't expecting them, then having somebody be there, then having that someone be my good buddy Shawn Walding. Our rounds were two hours long for games to 11, so we did a lot of sitting around and destroyed a couple of discs playing milk. Jake slept in the shade most of the day, nursing a strong hangover.

Sunday morning we were to play Ice for first place. The team Ice had was not similar to the one we saw last week in Chicago. They didn't have the same women as previously, nor were many of their guys the same. They had potential, but would be rough around the edges. We were pretty sure we were going to win, but didn't want to take anything for granted, so we were there early warming up and came out strong. They set up their isolation offense, which we either shut down well, or they were just too timid, because they looked to dump a lot and three or four turns in a row were dump turnovers, giving us short fields and easy scores. We go up 7-1 in a hurry. Take half 8-2. Go out to a 13-3 lead. Give up five points. Then take the next two to win 15-8.

Just one more tournament for CLX in the series. We won't be going to nationals, so regionals will have to serve as our nationals. Not sure where we'll be seeded, but one would be appropriate and I can't imagine anything lower than two. I think only Briefcase could be seeded ahead of us, and that only off the strength of one tournament. I'll probably write out not only a seedings post but a predictions post as well. I suppose I'll have to wait for northwoods sectionals before posting the former and until final seedings are posted for the latter.

Good night.