Scrimmaging Davis B and Cal B

Today we played games against Davis B and Cal B at a local middle school. We had about two lines worth of players come out including the elusive Danny Cassman and the recently unseen John Murphy.

Davis B:

We started off against Davis B and came out strong. Right away a (Sheehan?) huck went up to Danny who sauntered towards the end zone and layed out for the score. 1-0. We then scored again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. That's right, the score at half was 7-0 Stanford. I've already forgotten half of what happened today but a few highlights from that half were a goal line stand by our defense that ended in a layout D by The Bard and Cody running down the pull to stop the first throw (to my man - I wouldn't have been there eventually) then chasing down his own man while the disc was in the air and getting the D. After Coach Tickle talked to us about not getting lazy on D in the second half we let Davis score 3 of the first 4 points out of half. The bad luck that Davis seemed to have at times in the first half wore off onto us and we let them tighten the game. While Davis outscored us in the second half we managed to hang in there, finishing something like 11-5 or 12-6, hard capped because Cal wanted a shot at us.

Cal B:

Stanford carried the lack of fire we had in the second half of the Davis game into the beginning of the Cal game. Cal went up 2-0 then 3-1 on us before we remembered that they were Cal B and should not compete with us. In what I think was one of the better turnarounds by our team this year we fought back to go up 6-3. If I remember correctly we went from there to half at 7-3. In the second half things didn't fare as well for us as Cal kept pace with us to bring the score to 11-6. At this point hard cap went on again so that Davis could attempt redemption on Cal. Cal scored the last point ending the game 11-7 Stanford. There were more highlights in this game than I can remember (mostly because I have a bad memory) but I remember Mitch scooping a disc from inches off the ground, Donny expertly poaching a swing from the front of the stack, Gage expertly calling a strip, and a picture perfect backhand huck from Ed to Danny for a score.

Ed tells me that both games will be sanctioned and added to Stanford's 'official' record putting us at 6-6 overall and 10-8 for the season. While there were some slow points today (mostly second halves) Stanford played its game and moved the disc well. Props to all the rookies who are boosting the team so well.