Klenk comes to join us from Emory, and the phrase “Big Time” gets burned in the lexicon of NUT players for all time. We attended Michigan Indoor and also Prez Day in San Diego, which was awesome. NUT struggled, but a highlight was Nuprin scoring three times on Black Tide with some majestic eff you spikes after those nerds “put a bounty on his head.” A win over Claremont was preceded by NUT accepting the contents of “The Box” from the Braineaters, which got J-Liu some yellow overalls and K a “Hold My Balls” t-shirt. Spring Break highlighted by Ojeh’s “I wish you would!” taunt to Georgia, followed by him out-jumping everyone on the field. His elbow was above everyone’s hands.
Sectionals was at Purdue, where the wind on Sunday was consistently 50 MPH, creating an incredible upwind/downwind scenario. Our last game of the day, I believe for 3rd in the section, was against Purdue at the height of the wind. Stukel and Dan Benjamin, aka “Flames” go out to flip, and no joke the flip took probably twenty seconds as one of the discs rolled 35 yards before coming to a rest. Purdue wins the flip, and Flames celebrates like he just won the lottery. Purdue takes the wind. This was an incredible wind, where all we did was punt with the wind at our back, and both teams were struggling to complete ten yard backhands going into the wind. It got to the point where I was just throwing downwind hammers up into the jet stream and letting them float out the back of the endzone, 75 yards downfield. Nuprin tried to throw a dump going upwind that got caught by the wind, lifted about 30 feet up, and blown out the back. NO ONE was getting anything upwind. Purdue takes half, on serve, no breaks. It’s still a struggle, but NUT is gaining some traction upwind, basically with Wade, Stukel, Cranston, Nuprin and Ted the only ones allowed to throw. We continue to trade with Purdue, until the cap horn is called and a universe point is upon us, as expected. Purdue has the wind at their back and is ready to take the game, until somehow NUT gets the disk moving upfield. Stukel is stuck about 20 yards away from the upwind endzone, one of our best chances all day. He can’t find a dump… seven.. eight… nine… Stukes has no choice, gives up his flick dump look, turns and throws a blind backhand prayer, which MERCER SNAGS IN THE ENDZONE FOR AN UPWIND BREAK AND A NUT WIN! A second straight tie for 5th at Regionals.
Tournaments:
Michigan Indoor
Prez Day
UPA Sectionals
UPA Regionals