DoG 2001

DoG 2002: You can't expect to win turning it over thrice

Month		Tournament	Finish	Notable Wins/Losses
	Comments
April		White Mountain Open	6-0, 1st	Dartmouth B
	The damn golf course is closed for renovations, so some of us play pitch and putt on the fields, some of them being used. It rains quite a bit. The Family von Greff drives up for the day but is discouraged by the rain and so leaves. We receive a shopping cart for winning the tournament, but can take only that little plastic seat. Matt Hims debuts. After having the zone O explained to him, he asks, "But why?" We take him on the team anyway.
June		Easterns	6-2, 2nd 4-2, 6th	L to NY, Ring L to DC, Ring, close win over Montreal in pre-quarters
	This is how spring tournaments used to be, sorta. We split into two teams, with the rosters apparently picked by someone with an ax to grind (later, it was said that some SO's picked them). Ring beats both squads and sheds "Phil Mickelson" tag, leaving probably Atlanta with the claim. Torrential storm halts quarterfinals game seconds after Chicago pulls it 20 yards upwind. This is team's first finals loss since 1999 Easterns. Jim, Bim, and the Haskells golf at Red Tail after the loss, with Jordan carding an 88 to beat Jim by 4.
August		Worlds	11-1, 2nd	L to Condors
	Blow 8-4 lead in finals. Very nice rental house in Haleiwa, but the overorganized young guys schedule too many things. I manage to get 63 holes of golf in, including 9 between rounds the first day. Doug breaks his shoulder. Jam pulls a, well, Jam, blowing a 14-9 lead to Sockeye to lose 15-14. Approximately 80 calls or disputes in our 14-11 semifinal win over Furious. Johnny calls Jay a bitch, so Jay slaps him. Lots of wind, something the Europeans apparently don't have. Nice sunsets. Hey, it's Hawaii.
September		Tuneup	7-1, 2nd	L to E. Pig
	It was again damned hot, possibly hitting 90. 5 games Saturday, all wins, giving up something like 5, 7, 8, 9, 9 goals in games to 13. There were interesting tie-breaking possibilities going into the final pool play round Sunday morning. Top two made semis. We merely had to lose by 10 or less to Chain to make it. Subzero had to win by 2 or more and hope we won. Chain had to beat us. Subzero quickly disposed of Valhalla 13-5, while we took a lead of 8-4 on Chain. They quickly tied it at 10, 11, and 12, so it was next point wins (hard cap at 13 in all non-finals games). OB pull, I cut first from the back, my defender comes very close to blocking it (he may have even touched the disc just as I caught it), but otherwise they had no bids on us, and after I caught the winning goal, I flipped the disc to a Subzero guy standing on the sideline, saying, "Here you go, kid" and walked off the field. Ring was cannon fodder for us in the semis, as we went up 7-1 and 9-3 before winning 13-7. In the finals, the O got broken twice in each half as the team went down 14-9, game to 15. The O scored to avoid being on the field for the loss. The D then got its first, second, and third breaks of the game to make it interesting, but Pig scored on the fourth try and won it.
September		Sectionals	5-0, 1st
	Worst fields ever. Not the best format, either, come to think of it.
October		Regionals	4-0, 1st	NY
	Big struggle to get fields after the Sectionals debacle. Eventually settled on a sod farm in Connecticut, but with an odd schedule that gave us two games on Sat. I golfed 9 holes afterward, with a masterful birdie on the double-dogleg second hole. Alex misses Sunday because Georgia has "vertigo." Tejas is close for awhile in semis before losing 15-8. Nathan tweaks a "hip flexor" on first point of finals against Hogg, leading to O (yes, O) handling lineups of Paul, Lyn, and Jit, and Forch, Billy, and Moses.
November		Nationals	5-2, semis	Lost to Furious twice, knocked out Condors in quarters
	Third straight semis loss to eventual champ. Players drop like flies in closing points of Bravo pool play game, which we somehow win. After subpar season, O plays spectacularly on Saturday.
48-8, 3 victories, 3 finals losses, 1 semis loss, 1 other New players: Will Arnold, Abhijit "Jit" Bhattacharya, Bryan Doo, Matt Hims, Keegan Uhl, Josh Ziperstein. Unretired: Paul Greff, Brian Cameros. Lost Jeff Brown (again), Bim (again), Seeger (again, after Worlds), Doug (after Worlds), Justin Hughes (after Worlds), Justin Safdie (after, uhh, several tournaments), Ville, and our heart and soul, Jordan "Boy" Haskell. Lifetime: 474-63, 51 titles, 17 2nd, 9 semis losses, 5 other.