We did it!! We won the national tournament this weekend!!

It was such an amazing weekend. It had rained over 2.5 inches during the week so the fields were quite squishy. It was also cold on Saturday morning. We had the first game at 9am against the Calgary White team. Calgary brought two teams to the tournament. One team wore mostly white uniforms (hence Calgary White) and the other team wore mostly blue uniforms (they were Calgary Blue). Rumor had it that Calgary's coach had put most of his good players on the blue team. From the opening bounce we took control of the game. By halftime, the coach rotated the defensive players up front because we kept the ball in our offensive zone the first half of the game. This gave some of our players a chance to rest their legs and gave the defense a chance to get into the game. Final score was 69 - 0.

The afternoon game was against Denver. They are a relatively new squad, but with several good players already. In Denver's first game, they played powerhouse Atlanta. Although Denver lost, they kept the game tight and were only down 16 points at the final buzzer. My Milwaukee teammates were ready to roll though and we pounded Denver 57 - 12. It is a really good feeling to close the first day of tournament play with 2 wins. But we knew the tough game was coming up on Sunday morning against Atlanta.

After a night interrupted by a false fire alarm around 1am, we were back at the field to play Atlanta in the deciding match play game. Atlanta had won both of their games on Saturday as well so the winner of our game was going to the finals. The first half of the game was a tightly contested affair. At the break we were only up by a score of 14 - 11. We got a great pep talk from one of the guys from the men's team. With renewed determination, we hit the field and scored within a minute of starting the half. We never looked back and outscored Atlanta in the second half by over 36 points to zero. That set the stage for a championship match against Calgary Blue.

As the underdog going into the finals, we had several players from other teams coming over to give us scouting reports on the competition. It was nice having the crowd on our side as we got ready to play. It didn't start well as the Calgary team outscored us 9 - 0, but we settled down and began playing our game. Once we started scoring, we didn't stop and ended up with a 51 - 11 victory. It was such a great feeling.

Our mens team also made it to the finals of their division. Unfortunately they lost, but it was still a great weekend of footy for the club.

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