Hello all! This is Adam again. Ashley was kind enough to join me at my Orem City League ultimate frisbee games last Thursday and take these pictures. It was a double-header so I was pretty tired by the end of the evening. Orem City League is a league made up of 10-12 teams and we play every Thursday night for about two months. It is a lot of fun and there are many players or various skill levels and ages. I started playing last year with my friend Shep and I knew very little about ultimate frisbee. Three seasons later (Spring 2011, Fall 2011, and Spring 2012) and I feel like I have a lot better grasp of the game. I like being a part of a team made up of very different people. One of the teams we played against on Thursday had a player who I knew from home. He was my older brother's age, so about 10 years older than me. (Maybe I could convince my brother to play, hmm....) Anyway, it is a lot of fun, however my team has been on a big losing streak. We lost both of our games on Thursday.
The first game, we played with an extra man for the first half (for those who don't know, ultimate is played 7 v 7 and Orem is co-ed. The other team did not have any girl show up for the first half so we had an extra player.) We kept it close and I caught the disc for the first point but even with having one less player, the other team started to pull away. There was one deep throw that I was defending where I managed to block the disc but it flew forward into the waiting hands of an opponent in the end zone! Grrr! Anyway, we lost our first game.
The second team we played against had some members of our BYU Intramural team and Ashley was delighted to talk with one of the girls for a while. The start of this game was super sloppy. Each team dropped the disc quite a bit, but we were guilty of carelessness more often and we found ourselves down 4-0 fast. At halftime we were down by four or five points at least. However, we came out firing after halftime and clawed our way back into the game. Our offense was clicking and we were getting some turnovers on defense. We were tied 10-10 with a cap at 12 (this means that the first team to get to twelve would win the game). However, with a couple of close misses in the end zone, resulting in turnovers, the other team scratched out two points and we ended up losing.
However, ultimate is great sport. It definitely keeps you fit and is very exciting and I have really enjoyed playing this year. I have one more regular season game and then we have a two-day tournament in Alpine to finish the season. I will give an update later!
-Adam
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