New York and the Boston Tea Party

When we left you last on the Blog, we had finished our game with Pike, which culminated in a huge BBQ at Princeton Uni- again we were on the receiving end of some fantastic hospitality.

Our next port-of-call was New York. As we rolled into the city it was pelting with rain, our van had a minor crash and we were all feeling tired, and still down about Sacha and his now-diagnosed broken leg/foot.

So, we managed to convince the New York guys not to play against us, but to go out on the town with us instead. The NY guys were happy with this and we all had a great night out.

Jason, the captain of NY, got us all sorted with billets and so we got to know a few of them pretty well in a short time.

In the morning we did some sightseeing of the great city, and then it was onto Boston.

The field that was booked for us in Boston was pretty crap, so the Boston guys sorted us another field that was pretty sweet. After warming up and about to play, with a crowd on the sidelines, some cops turned up and told us the field was being re-seeded and we couldn't play. So it was off to another field. The crowd came with us so there was this huge convoy of cars heading across the city, except the local guy who was leading took a wrong turn and had to double-back- with the whole convoy following like it was a game of snake.

Anyway, the next field was probably the best i've played on and the game started after a short delay until one of our lost vans turned up.

We started hot and went up 4-0, with the disc for 5-0 but a drop in the endzone changed the momentum, and DOG bit back hard, taking half 9-8. The 2nd half saw DOG get to 14-11, so we switched D's and went with a short clam-transition and resulted in turnovers and a little run of our own. DOG held on a broke us again and had game point at 16-14. We scored, but they had the disc this time to win at 16-15. Gack got a layout block in the endzone to stop the score. We marched it down and scored to tie. Then it ws trading until 17-17. Our D got a turnover and pottsy threw a goal to Tom for 18-17.  They scored next, 18 all.  We then scored a clean offence point with gack bobbling the disc in the endzone and pete, like a good rover, catching the disc.  Dingoes win the game 19-18 and the celebrations begin.

The Boston boys put on a BBQ and two kegs in the afternoon.  Unfortunatley, the kegs were demolished in a little over an hour.  Some of the tried to kick on at a local bar but being a Sunday night it closed at 1am so the celebrations didn't go into the night.