Chain enters Friday’s power pools playing for seeding in the weekend’s elimination bracket – but also, playing with the hope of establishing the consistent level of play the team expects. It won’t be easy, starting the day with overall 2 seed Ironside (Boston).

9:30 Ironside (Boston) last year’s runner-up, anchored by Chain alum Josh “Cricket” Markette

• Ironside pulled away, wins 15-9
• missed chance to get it to 10-12, 2 point swing goes to 9-13
• Ironside starts well, leads 8-5 at half
• rainy and breezy morning

12:15 Truck Stop (DC) frequent ATL opponent at Nationals, upset Chain in pool play last year

• Chain gets the tough W, 15-13; quarters v Ring Sat.
• Back and forth game, with Chain up 1 at half, 8-7

skyd liveblog: club-championships-2011-liveblog/
Chain twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/ATLchain
aggregated twitter updates: leaguevine from Sarasota

schedule and results: USAU Championships score reporter