Ottawa is the proud home to both the mens and women's 2009 Canadian University Ultimate Champions.
Open Results
Finals- The University of Western Ontario Sharks vs the Carleton Ravens.
The Sharks dominated their pool and power pool matchups. The Shar
ks gave up no more than 7 points in 7 pool games, including a 14-7 win versus Carleton on Saturday. Their wins of Torontula and UBC (14-12) brought their 2009 win streak to 17 heading into the final.Carleton made it finals after winning a nail biting 13-12 semi versus Queens. They had won 9 of their first 10 games in this tournament, losing only to the Sharks on day 2.
In what is being described by both sides as a great final, Carleton had an outstanding game and took the national championship with a decisive 15-11 victory over Western.
Congratulations to everyone who helped develop this program in Ottawa and helped bring this championship to Ottawa. Team roster is below:
| Tobiah | Abramson |
| Reynaldo | Arteaga |
| Ryan | Bauer |
| Joel | Bellavance |
| Neal | Dawson |
| Gerrit | De Vynck |
| Shaw | Dungate |
| Brad | Fackoury |
| Brent | Gerhart |
| Mat | Goodkey |
| Jan | Gorski |
| Jason | Lobb |
| Karl | Loiseau |
| Christian | Mahaffy |
| Eric | Mazzei |
| Devin | McCabe |
| Tim | Nardi |
| Colin | Purdy |
| Bryce | Ring |
| robert | schmidt |
| Joshua | Tai |
| Rene | Toupin-Piper |
| danny | vanwilligen |
| Kielan | Way |
| Tyler | Zandbelt |
Womens Results
Womens Finals- Ottawa Gee Gees versus McGill Martletts
From the outset of the tournament, this bracket seemed to be (at best) a five team race for the national championship.
- Ottawa
- UBC (depending on who/how many players came out "east")
- Montreal (Upstart rookie team)
- McGill (Constant contender)
- Guelph
McGill entered the finals off of a big win over city rival UdeM in the semi finals. In winning 8 straight games at this tournament, McGill showed they were a worthy finalist and the strongest challenger to the Ottawa machine.
In the end, Ottawa won the title with a 14-9 victory over the host Marletts squads. Ottawa finishes 2009 with an astounding 44-4 record for the calender year, and sets their sights now on the UPA college series in the spring of 2010.
Team roster below...
| Chanelle | Pratt-Johnson |
| Jenna | Atchison |
| Viviane | Bartlett |
| Shannon | Becker |
| Anita | Benoit |
| Eloise | Clement |
| Laura | Evgin |
| Danielle | Fortin |
| Stephanie | Gobin |
| Louise | Guolla |
| Angelia | Hughes |
| Marie-Andrée | Imbeault |
| Brianna | Jaffray |
| Meghan | Kane |
| Sonia | Komenda |
| Julia | Laforge |
| Kylee | Letourneau |
| Stephanie | Mandal |
| Chantal | Mayotte |
| Anne | Mercier |
| Ariane | Morissette |
| Samantha | Morris |
| Lauren | Murphy |
| Aline | Pfefferle |
| Kathryn | Pohran |
| Gabrielle | Robineau-Charette |
| Vanessa | Scharf |
| Tayla | Sedgwick |
| Kaylee | Sparks |
| Michelle | Warren |
18 comments:
Congratulations to Carleton on a great final. You guys played an awesome game and deserved to win yesterday.
I'd also like to shout out the UBC guys who despite having 8 guys played hard every point this weekend. Them making the trip despite such low numbers is awesome.
Mark
nice photo of the men's final you included, steve. finally, evidence that the bryce can win a battle in the air; otherwise, i never would have believed it.
not meaning to beat a dead horse, but congrats again carleton for bringing home the gold.
I'm not convinced Bryce won that battle.
the bryce won that.
Yep he did :(
Sure he won that battle, but does it count? Higy plays CoEd during the touring season ;)
Kidding aside, great work Ravens and Sharks, sounded like a great game by two teams that have made huge strides over the past few years.
I'm always thought:
-Bryce Ring was underrated for the past few years
-Ottawa has too much mindless slag talk
This comment thread does nothing to disprove these two ideas.
I think what we're all trying to say congrats to Ring and the rest of those damn Ravens!
Does it count as slag talk if it's coming from a masters player?
"Leave Britney (Derek) ALONE"!!!
Ha Ha
Does it count as slag talk from a Master's player? Higy, that's all that Master's players have, please don't try to take that away from me. I've spent a lot of time recently with P-Mo trying to perfect this aspect of my game :)
Who said 'The Bryce' was underrated?
Observer observation - the open final, though closely contested, was well spirited in my opinion. Players accepted observer decisions that didn't go their way and both teams resolved several situations without going to the observers in a calm, levelheaded manner. This doesn't mean there wasn't emotion, but it was a relatively clean game in my opinion.
let me be the first to admit that i have been humbled by the bryce (and many many other players) on numerous occasions. i have played with him for the past, what, four summer seasons? he is not underrated. he is funny, often a goofball, but not underrated.
Seconding the observer observations: both teams were very sportsmanlike in the final and respectful of the other team, calls and rulings. This in spite of an intensely fought game and a number of close calls (had to resort to the dreaded "do-over" on some of them, but mainly a function of just how close some of the calls were).
Observing was a lot of work due to the calls and the sheer speed with which the play moved at times, but was nonetheless enjoyable due to the attitudes of the players, energy from the sidelines, and sheer quality of play. Some absolutely ridiculous plays by both teams that had my jaw drop a few times (e.g. Carleton's callahan, the shoulder-high layout grab to make the score 14-11 (I think), and Higy's circus catch on Mark Lloyd's blade into the endzone). Fun game to watch, congrats to both teams!
Congrats to all the teams in attendance for a phenomenal tourny, and to all the teams in the finals for putting on such a great show for the spectators. It was fun to watch! Thanks also to the tourny organizers! I also agree the Bryce is not underrated. Looking forward to next year's CUUC!
Not the place for this, but oh well...
Can we get a UPA preview for Canadian teams? I don't know anything about Psychopastique (sp?). Seedings and pools are out and things are looking good for GOAT.
Fun game to play. Thanks to Western for a hard fought game and the observers for their dedication and understandable calls. Thanks to everyone who made the trip to support Carleton or players who were done for the tournament and decided to help as much as they could on the sidelines. This was definitely a great experience that I will not forget.
Psycho would be mostly Edmonton types dating back to U of A's heyday. Their UPA roster will almost certainly have Seb Toth and Jen Nicholls on board (the former was playing with Mephisto at CUCs, I believe). Both played for Team Canada Open and Women's in 2008, respectively. Steve Pearlstone and Rob Brunelle are also mainstays of that crew.
Psycho also has 3 pickups from Winnipeg for the fall series: Jared Lehotsky and Aaron "Dobber" Dobson, both from Chaos, and Scott Warwaruk from General Strike. Good set of pickups there. Having Jen Nicholls back for fall this year (she played with Psycho at CUC this year, but last fall with UPA mixed champs Mental Toss Flycoons) also bodes well. Their performance in Sarasota could depend on who can make it, but with everyone there I suspect they could easily move well up from their 9th seed going in.
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