Gettysburg Coed Tourney 9/26-27

Captain Ben Scharadin '10 calls line.

Steve Rosso '11 scores.

Team plyos.

Stacey Sosenko '09 scores.

Ben Scharadin '10 makes a catch.

This past weekend the Men’s and Women’s ultimate teams combined forces to once again play in Gettysurg’s Coed tournament. With a large freshmen class half of each team came out on Saturday and the other half on Sunday.
On Saturday the first game was against Penn College and was a convenient first game because their team was just starting up to. Working on cycling all players in eventually the team went on a 3 point stand to win on universe point 13-12. The next game against York College was basically the same story. The game was kept close and the team once again made a 3 point run to win the game on universe point. The next few games were harder because Gettysburg Alum and Gettysburg had strong teams taking advantage of our attempt to rotate new players in. Overall Saturday we went 2-2, which is a better record than past years at this tournament. The main goal of initiating the new players to game speed, learning how to throw a zone, and running a ho’ stack were all accomplished with success.
On Sunday our first game was against IUP. Wanting to try out our zone with the players we had on Sunday we threw it early. It proved to be effective and proved to be one of the main reasons for our victory over IUP 13-5. Our next game was a hard fought battle against Shippensburg. We tried to run the zone again, but they had better handlers and were able to work it through a little better. Then we played SUNY Fredonia and won. We were clearly better conditioned and it proved to be an opportunity to work our rookies in. The final game was against VCU, which ended in a loss, however the freshmen as well as some vets learned from playing against a better team.
- Ben Scharadin '10

photos courtesy of Diana Fiore '10

Women's Roster/ Results

http://www3.upa.org/scores/scores.cgi?div=34&page=3&team=3290

Code Blue at Rutgers 10/03-04

What a professional, organized group of athletes!

Code Blue at their finest.

Senior Captain Jen "Tender" Everhart '11 turns into The Incredible Hulk in order to make a pass to Junior Captain Elena Lopez '12.

Seriously, look at her arm.

Kelly McGeehan '12 leaps and scores.

Sarah Patterson '13 celebrating in silver at her first tournament.

Code Blue attended their first women’s tournament of the season over the weekend of October 3 and 4, 2009 at Rutgers University. Despite having a smaller group of players due to Family Weekend back at F&M, the team excelled.
On Saturday, ten veteran players attended the tournament, ready to bring back the amazing team chemistry that we all remembered from last year. The girls started the weekend off with a 13-7 victory over Villanova, followed by another win over Columbia University (15-2).
Our third game against Cornell A did not end with the big W, but Code Blue took pride in being the only team in our pool to put up any points against Cornell. Faced with a team of such a high caliber, with at least twice as many subs, Code Blue showed great perseverance and really showed spirit of the game by keeping smiles on their faces, having fun playing some Ultimate and learning from the experienced players from Cornell.
The team made the joint decision to forfeit the 5th game of the day against Princeton in favor of going home to get some much needed rest and come back the next day ready to compete in the third place bracket.
Sunday brought 12 girls to Rutgers, including a new player (Sarah Patterson) who was also celebrating her 19th birthday with a stunning pair of silver leggings (costume may have been forced on her). With only two games to play on Sunday, Code Blue was ready to leave it all on the field. Despite a (6-15) loss to Delaware Y, the girls rallied and ended the tournament with a win against Johns Hopkins (9-1).
Code Blue finished the tournament in 7th place, successfully holding rank. This was a major accomplishment for the team, as we graduated several team leaders last spring.
The weekend was a huge success and only made Code Blue all the more excited for future tournaments when we can be joined by even more of our teammates.

Photos courtesy of Scott D. Salmon and Kelly McGeehan. Team photo arranged by Mrs. Yosevitz (Lisa's mom).