Updates and the happs

Updates:

- updated the officer list.
- deleted the superfluous posts.


The Happs:

- Davanni's fund raiser tomorrow night from 4 - 9pm! Take all of your friends! It's on the corner of Grand Ave. and Cleveland!

Back in action

After a short hiatus, we're back in action on the blog. Keep checking back for new posts regarding organizational news, etc. etc.

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Enjoy guys!

Purple Reign '08-'09

The Captains for Purple Reign have been voted for, announced and sworn in.

They will be:
Scott "Bubbles" Dillon
Peter "Ice" Douglass
Jeff "Leaf" Dokmo

Go forth to victory.

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The blog will be reset shortly for the coming year.

Mankato Tournament Report

Purple Reign played in the Mankato indoor, our first game starting shortly after 1 AM on saturday morning with session 1 ending at 5 AM. We then played from 10:50pm on Saturday to roughly 2 AM Sunday morning.

Short Story: Purple Reign won it's first ever tournament victory over a field of 7 other teams with a record of 5-0. We topped Hamline, St. Olaf B, Eau Claire (twice), and Macalester. Rock.

Long Story:

We opened against St. Olaf B with very few real highlights. Our play was generally flat and listless, but it was also 1 AM. SOB ran hard and took us to half yet we proved we are truly a second half team by getting our groove and pulling out a win at the last minute. I forget the final score. It was really close.

Our second game of the morning was Macalester's Blue Monkeys. Vengeance was in the eyes of Reign, as we revisited our defeat at the Fall '07 MacTommie. Shortly after the start, there was a fall, a cry, and a stoppage of play. Our smiling brother was laying on the ground and not smiling, for he had fractured his collarbone. We dispatched Emergency Contact Smokey with ambulance noise action to hustle Smiles to the Mankato hospital. Reign then vowed to win for Smiles. And we did. Our feet were swift, our decisions smart, and our handlers chilly. Rock. St. Thomas 2, bad guys 0.

The third game was expected to be our most challenging, squaring off against UW Eau Claire's Eau-zones. We went down two immediately. We eventually figured things out, got ourselves back together and focused and went on to win our pool opposite Mankato (who was at this time also undefeated).

Reigns fourth game, the first of the second session, we played a near savage Hamline. Hamline really caught us off balance and forced us to really use our depth and every advantage we could get. We came from behind for the win, but boy was it close...

Fifth, and championship game, was against Eau Claire again, who came to us fresh off a win over Mankato's Blue Skunks. It was a pretty intense game, lots of long points, lots of hucks, massive D's by both teams, all in all, it was a damn good game. It came down to Eau Claire being up 12-10, and us fighting back to 12-12, Universe Point. Reign started on D, and put the pressure on immediately. Our final possession, we used our Corvette to Louis for the win.

This was Purple Reigns first tournament victory. Hopefully the first in a string of many more.

History Making Team: Here's an incomplete picture.
Smiles
Smokey
Heine
BFG
Chicken Bread
Louis
Leaf
Frogger
Bubbles
Doodle
Ironman
Joe
Spooner
Rookie
Ice
Israel
&
Bueno.

Duluth MLK - Tournament Report

We headed to Duluth for the MLK Indoor tournament.

We started the day with 10 players against a considerably larger Ugly Ducklings squad. We came out strong and made an impressive showing, taking both half and the game 13 to God knows what.

St. Thomas then went against Mankato and lost pretty badly. We came out flat and I think we used too much energy on the previous game. Mankato took both half and the game.

Next up was Duluth's Northern Lights. They won.

After a break we played the Hopkins Hurt. It was a pretty competitive game, and very hucky at that. One thing about this game (and I know they're reading ;] ) is that I lost my composure for a bit. It was a long time coming and regrettably it happened this game. I just wanted to say that it had nothing to do with Hopkins, and I hope my behavior in that instance doesn't reflect poorly against St. Thomas. My apologies.

Monday we played two games. I slept through monday because my team decided to not come to the party and tell me when we were playing.

they started with Hamline, and lost.

then they played the Ducklings again, and lost. That's about all the info I've got. My guess is that we lost this game because we had 8 players to their like...20.

That's all folks,
Frogger

PS: Check out some pictures.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2062939&l=ba3cb&id=40103542
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2062944&l=edb63&id=40103542
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2062948&l=90ec9&id=40103542