Rice received a DIII bid for this year’s College Centex – which we quickly stomped and gross over into DII bracket play. As our third tournament of the year, we were a little nervous since it would be the first time we would have a nearly full squad playing together. With the help of our three coaches: Kim Breese, Eric Leonard, and Jay Dunlop, the weekend fulfilled its promise of exciting upsets, epic plays from unexpected players, and great team offense/defense. One of the greatest highlights from this weekend was the incredible success of our endzone play. We look forward to see how this continues to develop as we enter the series in a few weeks.
Most important thing to notice here is that we are on the rise. We are still climbing and shooting for our goal to peak at Regionals! Also, our Centex dance was really quite impressive, no matter what the judges say. A great method of team bonding, in addition to ice bathing and chilling in Marie’s awesome house in Austin.
Check out our impressive record from the weekend: (6-2) We finished 10th in the DII bracket.
| Opponent | Score (Rice – chumps) |
| Stanford P’teryfly | 15-6 |
| Tulane | 15-5 |
| Texas Mayhem | 14-4 |
| UCSD | 15-9 |
| UCLA | 8-10  |
| CSU-LB | 10-8 |
| Arizona | 15-9 |
| Wash U | 5-15 – just wait ‘til Regionals |
Centex Dance Practice:
Working on finding a way to upload the entire video so that you can take a quick glance at it. It was pretty awesome, not going to lie – especially as someone who does not like dancing. We even EXCEEDED Eric’s expectations of our dancing abilities.
Any details on the UCLA game? Was it as close at is seems from the score?
ReplyDeleteAlso, congrats on beating Arizona, the team from my new academic home. :)
It was close. We were tied and had a chance to basically take the lead at 8-8 with an upwind break. Then, I called injury after getting it right on the endzone because my arm had gone numb. So I'm not sure what happened but we must have lost that break and then they scored going downwind for the win. It's rather unfortunate.
ReplyDeleteNext time, next year for sure!