Spring Break
Frisbee Fever
"B team" event sweeps campus
by Melissa Siegel
Staff writer
Sports | 4/1/08
Posted online at 12:23 AM EST on 4/1/08
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"The throws are so much harder [in the wind]," Shriner-Cahn said. "When it's windy and the weather's not so great, it becomes more important that we play to our system and keep our throws shorter and better."
Amid the howling winds that made the flight of the disc unpredictable, ultimate squads from 10 different schools took part in the Brandeis "B-Fest" Tournament across campus last Saturday. The Brandeis squad went 2-2 in preliminary play, defeating Bentley College 10-8 and Northeastern 10-2 while losing to Yale University 10-6 and Boston College 10-7 before winning its playoff game after Brown University's C team forfeited.
"We play in a bad-weather region, so a lot of the time most of the tournaments that we're used to are bad weather, whether it be wind or cold or precipitation," said Avraham Wachs-Cashman '08, a captain on the Tron A team and a coach of the B team.
In ultimate Frisbee, teams consist of seven members, and a goal is scored when a player catches the disc in the end zone. In this tournament, the pool games were played to 13 points and the playoff games were to 15, but each game also had a time limit of 1 hour, 20 minutes.
If a game reaches the final 15 minutes, a soft cap is called, meaning the first team to score one more point than the leading team's score at the time wins the match. In the final five minutes, a hard cap is called, and the team leading after the end of the current possession wins the match, unless the game is tied, in which case one more point is played.
This tournament was composed of eight B teams and two C teams which were divided into two pools of five teams each. After each squad played every team in its pool, it played the team in the other pool that finished in the same place in the standings.
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