Chain Lightning

Nationals 08, halfway through picture via f1215833808.blogspot.com Following Friday’s power pool games, Chain Lightning has rallied from a first game loss to overall second seed Johnny Bravo to, by today’s end, take over the #2 seed position for itself. After Thursday’s first round whipping, we came back to take out SubZero by 2 before rolling [...]

From a beginning in the swirling snow at Terminus early last spring, through 100+ degree practices, jubilation at success at summer’s end, and frustration in the early fall, the reason for all the work is upon us. Starting Thursday morning in Sarasota, FL, Chain Lightning and the 15 other top club teams enter championship week, [...]

So far, so good for Cinderella. Scrapping our way up from the (hereafter, lucky) 13 seed, we swept our pool with 3 consecutive upsets on Thursday, defeating Subzero (overall 5 seed), Furious George (overall 4 seed, last year’s runner-up), and Truck Stop (overall 12 seed). The win over Furious was Chain’s first ever over the [...]

Finish: low; 2-5 record, wins over Voodoo and Bravo results By round –Saturday– Sub-Zero: We were broken on O the first 3 possessions, lost half 8-3; came blitzing back to take 12-11 lead (9-3 run), only to lose 14-13. The tough underneath defense of SZ combined with sloppy throws and catches by Chain (setting a [...]