Women's Day Two: Swiss game = lie in

Due to the punishing women’s schedule, this would be are only morning we had off and didn’t have to get up at 6.30am. However, most of us were awake anyway and headed in to watch the open team bagel the Czechs and play some great ultimate against the Italians before heading over the road to play the Swiss. Having watched their earlier confident defeat of the Swedish, we knew we were in for a tough game, and knew that this team were definitely better than their 12th seed (the seeding being one of the many flaws of the Women’s schedule).

We started off strong scoring a number of the first points and taking a strong lead. They pulled back and soon we were trading points coming up to the half. Then they brought out their zone and things started to get a little bit tougher. As the sun beat down and the wind constantly changed direction and force, it wasn’t long before we were turning over and they were capitalising. I also managed to land on my shoulder, putting myself out of the game for a number of points and lessening our already small group of handlers. They took the half by a lead of two points and our heads went down a little.

Coming into the second half we were still fighting though, and managed to pull some points out with some really great offence against the zone, and when they did turn us, the points would last for ages as each team continued to fight for the D-points. However, when it came down to it they had some really fast runners and some really great handlers, and the zone just ended up being too much for us in the end. Final score at the time cap was 17-9.


MVP of the day: Sparky Booker