GANG GREEN vs. PURPLE RAIN
by Jeff Chai

The undefeated Purple Rain took on Gang Green last night in a highly anticipated match up.  However, that match up didn’t materialize as Purple only fielded 9 men with 1 getting injured midway through the game.  Meanwhile, Green had an astounding 15 people show up.

At the start of the game, Purple was firing on all cylinders.  They were getting the under and the deep.  Meanwhile, Green, perhaps adjusting to finally having most of its roster present, had a few miscues which Purple capitalized on.

James, Todd and Soren were taking care of the handling on Purple and held possession of the disc and made smart decisions.  However, Green managed to keep the game close and at halftime it was 9-7 purple.

Unfortunately, there are two halves in summer league and Green’s depth coupled with Purple’s lack thereof began to show.  While Green could continually sub in it’s athletes to get d’s, Purple’s main guns had to stay in point after point.  Eventually, Purple began wearing down.  The cuts became less crisp, the throws a little out of reach and the defense not as tight.

Green started the half on a 3-0 run and regained the lead.  For the next few points the teams traded but eventually, Green pulled away for the 17-12 victory.  Props to all of purple for running hard and playing well.  Looking forward to a full strength match up.

GANG GREEN vs. PURPLE RAIN
by James Renfroe

The key to last night’s game was numbers numbers numbers.  Green had them, Purple didn’t.

Purple started strong getting two quick points off of fast moving big plays.  Green got two points right back.  Purple returned with two more points.  We traded points and then Purple went on a run getting the score to 8-5.  Green worked it back to 8-7 and Purple stopped the bleeding and took the half.

The second half of the game was drastically different than the first.  I contribute this to a couple of things.  Green has an extremely athletic, smart team.  They can run and as we learned last night, when they have numbers, they can run for a long long time.  They also didn’t seem to make a lot of poor decisions.  They threw to open guys and played a solid game of ultimate.  And with Matt Mihm and Jeff Chai’s ability to break basically any mark it leaves a lot of the field at their disposal.

On the other side of the disc, Purple played with nearly savage numbers last night.  And it seems that by the time they hit the second half the gas tanks were running on empty.  As fatigue began to set in the disc started getting to be just a little too far away and we started making a lot of mental errors and poor decisions.

Green’s adjustments and Purple’s exhaustion had Purple seeing green for the second half.  As made evident by one of the Purple players excusing himself from the game to vomit.

Anyway, Jeff did a great job of getting his team together and it payed off.  James couldn’t rally the troops and make the plays we needed to make and as a result there are no more undefeated teams in Men’s league.

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