Pleasuretown Throwdown WRAP

This will be a pretty brief post, as it is already midnight and I have a 6:00am wake up call.

LA Metro went down to San Diego for the 3rd annual P-town throw down. We came ready to tear it up and in short went 4-0 the first day. The first several points of the game were very sloppy with multiple turns from both sides but we eventually cleaned up our game and closed out the team in the 2nd half. The next several games went well and our last game of the day was against Cowabunga, the 2nd seed in the Pool. This bunch was made up of players mainly from Last Call and Safari, San Diego open and women's teams respectively. The game was close most of the way, and saw a pivotal break from Cowabunga via Callahan goal. It was a pretty sick goal with Rookie running down on the pull and laying out for the score off our first throw. We eventually capitalized on several turns and took the game 13-10. We were 4-0 at the end of the first day. woo go metro!


The second day arrived and we played the last seed in our pool winning 13-0 in about 35 minutes. Sunday also saw the arrival of our captain and he pretty much rallied the troops and we responded. The next two games were pretty close in the beginning with teams trading scores. Both ended with our team pulling away with multiple goal runs and winning handily. Wind was definitely playing a factor as we stuck down our zone and were able to generate turns.

So our team has made finals in 2 of the 3 tournaments we had played in, losing to Mischief twice in the finals. This time however; we were faced with a rematch with Cowabunga, which beat blackout in the semis. The beginning was close again with points being traded but then saw our traditional 2nd half run and we raced out to a 14-7 lead. What happened next is something that we won't forget. Cowabunga started going nuts. Before we knew it, they had rolled off a 6-0 run and we were sitting at 14-13. We were downwind and finally put an end to the game with a downwind huck from Keegan to Barrs for the winning goal.

LA Metro wins the first tournament in its short history going 8-0. We are all really excited for our next tournament up at Discos in Chico, and then Labor Day in San Francisco. It's gonna be a sick-nasty club season. =)

Watch out... we're gonna be wearing some crazy jerseys this year!

-hammie














pictures courtesy of Amy "meeko" Chang. thanks meeko!