From: Pepper Williams Subject: Div I Yale Cup Results Date: 1995/04/24 Message-ID: <3ngklh$10t@news.ycc.yale.edu> organization: Yale University newsgroups: rec.sport.disc Due to conflicting sectionals in the Mid-Atlantic, the 1995 Yale Cup figured to be a NE Regionals preview. All the teams that will probably make Regionals (and a few more) came. Teams were divided into 14 Division I and 12 Division II, and I only have reliable info on Div I, so someone else will have to post something about the Div II and Women's tournaments. On Saturday, teams were split into two pools of 7, and we played 7 rounds of one-hour timed games. Games were played in 29 minute halves, with play stopping at the end of each half, sometimes in the middle of a point. Two points were awarded for a win and one for a tie. The format led to some confusion and some frustration, but also to some exciting games. For example, in the first round, MIT and Williams were tied and engaged in a marathon point when the 5-minute horn blew. MIT finally scored the point with about 3 minutes left, then pulled to WUFO. WUFO turned it, but then got the turn back with about 20 seconds left... they then got a huck off to a crowd in their end-zone... a WUFO player went up and pulled it down for the tying score, and the horn blew to end the half 3 seconds later. Anyway, the idea was to play a hell of a lot of ultimate, and I think everyone would agree that that goal was accomplished. Final standings were as follows (sorry Eric Simon, I didn't record the scores, so teams will have to send them in individually). Pool A W L T Pts Pool B W L T Pts Yale 6 0 0 12 Cornell 6 0 0 12 Binghamton 4 1 1 9 Wesleyan 4 1 1 9 Boston Coll. 3 1 2 8 Middlebury 4 2 0 8 Vermont 2 3 1 5 MIT 2 2 2 6 Purchase 2 4 0 4 Williams 2 3 1 5 Hampshire 1 3 2 4 Rochester 1 5 0 2 Columbia 0 6 0 0 Dartmouth 0 5 0 0 A word of advice to anyone wishing to run a timed tournament in the future: make sure you have enough air in your airhorn. Things ran fairly smoothly through the end of the second round, at which point our horn ran out. We then dispatched different people to time different games, but that was an inadequate solution. Infinite thanks to Tross, Dennis Cronin, Richard Osbaldiston, and the guys from Cornell that served as official timers. Still, we did start ON TIME (BC was the only late team, and they paid for it with three assessed points in a game that eventually ended in a tie), and we finished within 15 minutes of schedule. On Sunday, the top 8 teams played quarters, semis, and finals, while the bottom 5 (Columbia didn't show) played several games amongst themselves. Here's how the playoffs went (again, I'm not certain about all the scores). Quarterfinals: Yale - MIT: MIT was without their two Asian Sensations Ed and James (injured ankles, but I understand they'll be back for Regionals), and clearly missed them. Yale won easily, 13-2. Wesleyan - BC: Close at the start, but Wes wore them down in the end, 13-6? Bingo - Middlebury: Middlebury, the surprise of the first day (beating MIT and WUFO) couldn't come up with enough firepower to take Bingo and headed up I-91 for Taco Bell. Final score 13-7? Cornell - UVM: UVM showed up late; Cornell came out cold. At halftime Cornell was only up by one, but they came back strong in the second half to win 13-9. Semis: Yale - Wesleyan: Yale looked strong against their central Connecticut rivals. Great D from Rob Armstrong and some great O from Josh Adler weren't enough to see Nietzsch through. Yale won 13-4. Cornell - Bingo: Bingo, short Nubile and Dutch, hung tough for the first half and was up 7-6. But Cornell picked it up in the second half again and won 13-10? Finals: Cornell finally started a game hot, scoring several upwinders (wind was 10-15 mph, gusting to 25) and taking advantage of Yale turnovers on their half of the field. Halftime score was 8-5 Cornell, with the Buds up two upwind scores. But the second half was all Yale, Superfly starting the half with an upwind goal and then sticking it to Cornell on D. Yale pulled even at 11-11, took another upwinder to go up 14-12, and held on to win 15-13. Thanks to everyone for a great tournament. - Pepper Williams, tournament director