Hellfish vs gOLDfish = Alumni Showcase game

We had our first annual Hellfish vs Alumni game yesterday. It was a great time for everyone in attendance. We invited many of our family and friends to come spectate this event so they would be able to see what the game of ultimate is really about. When it was all said and done we had probably about 80 total people in attendance for this match. It was very exciting to actually have fans for an ultimate game.







For about 2 weeks before the big match a lot of chatter and trash talk was being shared between the hellfish and the alumni. Some of the alumni were saying the hellfish would be lucky to score 8 points on them in a game to 15, but we were saying they should be ready for the heat that we would be bringing.




The stage was set and everyone was ready. The hellfish started the game of with an immediate break and were up 1-0 against the Alumini. Everyone on the team was jacked to get that early point, it kind of took the pressure off of our shoulders. The hellfish kept the pressure on for the next few points and brought the score up to 4-2. The alumni decided it was time to regroup and they took a time-out to figure out how to bring the game back in their favor. The time-out was great for them because they immediately had 3 straight breaks to make the score 5-4 in favor of the Alumni. The Alumni kept the pressure on into half and managed to be up 8-5.

The momentum was completely in the Alumni's favor and the hellfish just couldn't figure out how to get back into the game. The Alumni managed to get 2 straight breaks after half to bring the score to 10-5. At this point the Hellfish decided it was time for a much needed time-out. After the time-out the hellfish brought the momentum back in their favor by getting a couple great D's and quick scores. At this point the score of the game was 11-9. The Alumni was too skilled, and knowledgeable to let this momentum swing last for long. They rallied up 2 straight points to make it 13-9. At this point in the match the Hellfish had two hucks to receivers in the end zone that they both dropped. The Alumni wouldn't give us another chance to score on this point as they drove down the field to make the score 14-9. The match ended with both teams trading points to make the final score 15-10 in favor of the Alumni.

This was a hard fought battle by both teams but in the end the winner was the team with more knowledge and skill. The hellfish were very happy with their performance because in our minds this would honestly be one of the toughest teams we would see all season. We definitely felt that if we can compete with our Alumni that we would be able to compete with many of the teams that we face this year.

Derek "Beez" Bezeau

Absolutely None. No Wisconsequences

The Hellfish participated in their 3rd tournament of the year. This was the roster that we took:
Derek Bezeau
Chris Conlan
Dishaw
Mokeefe
Coley
Harras
Evan
Alex Heidtke
John Gow
Luke
Steve
Bob
Alex T
Christian
Doug
Steve. R
Ej
Dan Boynton
Aaron
Rafko
Gary

Here is a picture of the team before we left for the tournament



We took 9 returning players and 11 new players to this tournament. We knew we had a lot of work to do if we wanted to compete with the teams at this tournament. By the end of the tournament we went 0-6. We lost 2 matches on universe points and 2 matches by within 3 points(UPA score reporter has messed up on a lot of our scores this season, which means other teams are lying about our matches!). So Even though our record did not look great, we were pretty happy with how we finished. We were able to take 11 brand new players to Wisconsin and show them what ultimate was all about.