Who Let the Dogs Out?

This post is nearly a week old and I should have posted about it earlier but, better late then never I suppose.

Last Saturday the Davis Dogs went down to Cal Berkely to scrimmage UGMO, you know? The Dogs were excited about it and were ready to go and give Cal a good game. The previous time we played them was at the Santa Barbara Invite and they pretty much did what ever they wanted as we couldn't contain there offense, and they threw zone on us which was something we had not practiced nearly enough.

So we wanted to go down there and give them a better game, show them that we are talented and that we have improved since last time we met.

We get down there and walking down the tunnel into Memorial Stadium was somewhat surreal. I could imagine Cal Bear Football stars making that same walk and I was getting goosebumps. Anyway we start to play and we weren't going to do anything special, just come out play hard, match up well, and play our game.

The game started out trading the first few points. Our defense was getting some turns but couldn't convert while our offensed worked well, they even threw Zone in the first two points and we were able to handle that well and punch it in. When we got the break we were able to put it in, and then we went on to get two or three more points. We were pressuring their dumps well and they just couldn't complete the passes they needed. We weren't giving the disc back and we take half 8-4 I believe.

At half we discuss not letting up and being able to close teams out in the second half and keeping our intensity up. We come out of half fired up but we again end up trading to bring the score to 11-7. We finally start generating the turns and scoring as we take the game 15-8.

I think it was generally agreed that Cal didn't play their best game while the Dogs played very well. I expect Cal just had a bad day and we'll have a much tougher game against them possibly this weekend and or in the series. Either way the win has given the Dogs tremendous confidence which is good because we are a very good team. I have confidence that they will give it everything they have come this weekend at the Stanford Open (Qualifier).

Some Highlights of the game:

-Playing in Memorial Stadium in front of 50 people or so

-Finding Parking

-Barnes Sky in the back of the endzone followed by a huge spike

-Adam's two hand grab "over" Hagen

-Rob's sick upline catch goal

-Zimmer working so hard but still not get any D's

-Hitting the walk off two run homer in Baseball Pong later that night at Kevin's house.