"Each point I play is the now moment"

wow, i don't know how i managed today. it was hailing when we first got to the fields, and then it was just pouring rain. i came home wet down to my bones, and cold, and tired.

we played hard, we played well, but there's no way i can deny some of the sadness. erika broke her a bone in her hand yesterday, when we fell face first onto the uneven ground with two defenders on her. it was close to where there was a chipped bone, but a different bone. her hand's in a soft cast, and she can't play for the rest of the season. poor captains, daphne and erika.

on the first day at sectionals, we played boston college, then tufts, wellesley, wellesley B, and bentley. we won against BC, lost to tufts and wellesley, and beat wellesley B and bentley. we beat BC by a fair margin. i had a nice pass in that game. i had caught the disc as a popper, and even though the cup surrounded me, i looked around and saw sophie in my direct line of sight, right through a hole in the cup. i faked a backhand and threw a wide forehand to sophie. she didn't catch it, but i felt good about that moment when the disc swooshed through the cup. the game against tufts was hard. i think they were first seed. we got more points in the tufts game than the wellesley game. what stands out about that game was we ran really hard. the field we were playing on with tufts was fairly uneven, but all the fields we were playing on were quite weird...rolly and uneven...and the terrain for each field was different (we were at Goddard State park in RI). we worked some good zone-o in that game, but never quite got the disc in the endzone often enough. in the wellesley game: i remember wellesley really really liked to huck it, in hopes that ralph would get it. but i guess we could learn from them to go deep more. anyways, it was kinda crappy to keep losing to them on those hucks. it was sort of the same deal that we did a lot of good things to work the disc up the field, but never got it for the score. on a happier note, i got my first on the mark hand d when we played against bentley. it happened so fast, i didn't realize what had happened until i saw the disc in front of me after a split second. besides that, i don't remember much from the individual games...sorry, i have bad short term memory.

even sadder was our loss to harvard this morning. whoever won the game would qualify directly for regionals and could go home after one game. we were up by 3-0 at the beginning. we fought long and hard in the blistering cold and rain. we lost quite a few points on hucks, like the wellesley game. we had some zone-o working up the field though. the handlers were getting a lot better at throwing the "bendy" throws over the cup, either as a hammer, or a longer high up in the air bendy throw. but after we lost to them, we have to win two more games to qualify for regionals. we played brandeis next. we were soaking wet already before the game started. the rain wasn't letting up. it was so cold i had to run up and down the sideline often, and keep my hands tucked in my crotch to keep them warm (that led to a wet underwear.) the game against brandeis was close, end score 12-10. i was so nervous for that last point when the score was 11-10. i couldn't contain myself on the sideline. i kept on jumping up and down, repeating to myself "come on, come on, come ON, smite!" finally, we were in our endzone, and after the disc bounced between O and D hands, it landed in doris's hands. our last game was canceled because of the terrible weather, so we'll probably have to play BU next weekend.