Pres Day Day 1

Well, at the end of a veryyy long day I am happy to be in a day's inn with my roommates Lola, Sharon and Diana (and Kayla just got added to our floor, what a good rookie) outside of san diego

Our morning started with a first round bye
First game we played Carleton.  Came out fine but had a mental lapse in the middle that hurt us and ended up losing by a few in cap.. bummer. We all knew we should have won that one which motivated us going into the next one.

Second game we played Humboldt. They're the team who played into the tournament from the qualifiers, which I thought was pretty cool. We kind of messed around a little first half so they got some points, but went on a six point run to close the game soundly. Yay winning.

Third game we faced our biggest regional competition: Kali from Colorado. We let them go on a run, regrouped at half, and ended up playing an incredibly intense point for all the marbles in hard cap. WE WON. I think that's a feeling we will get to have often- our team has so many strengths this year, and after four years in the program I think this is the most confident I've felt in our ability to execute what we've practiced.

Last, we played the Pie Queens.  This was the game we played in the torrential monsoon/hail. For real. So, we put up four against them but after our recent win and change-up of subs the game got away from us and we were glad to have a last round bye and get to a warm place.

Thanks to Emily's relatives for treating us all to pizza and discounted hot cocoa at Starbuck's :) Yumm. AND successful first day by Michelle aka Tool. We were glad to not be stuck in the boys' situation..

So far, highlights of the tourny
-Janet getting out of the car and going up to close another car's gas tank while in traffic trying to get from Austin to San Antonio for our flight
-Wanting to steal oranges from trees and our absurd amount of excitement about that
-Dogpiling at the end of Kali on my roomie Shereen and the thrower Ashley
-Seals in the road.. nuff said
2-2 but knowing we could win the pool so now on to the next. we play at 12:45 tomorrow so team brunch and then our 30 minute-ish drive into the city

go melee! and good luck to all the other teams