To be honest I think most of us went into the next three games hoping to learn from the experience and keep our losing margin respectable against such great teams. Next up were the hosts of the tournament - Swamp City. These girls were very good and hit very hard. As we expected it was a rough and physical game and we were sad to see one of our best jammers out with a concussion. It looked like an ambulance would be needed for her so it was decided by the refs and team captains to call the game with 8 minutes left to play. The score stayed at 92-10 and we were pleased not to risk anymore injuries at that stage.
We were thrilled that we would get to play Richter City Allstars - they were like our 'big sister' league and had helped us a lot over the first year of ORDL's life. Our long term plan was to bout against their B team next year and then get good enough to challenge the big kids in 2014.
Our Head coach's pep talk in the changing room beforehand went something like this.....its gonna be tough, but hey
we got nothing to lose, and we coooullddd win and that would be epic,
actually if we get close it will be epic......
A few jams in we were yet to score at 11-0.
We were all starting to hope that the game wasn't going to be a total embarrassment when something almost magical happened.
We became a team.
Suddenly we were finding each other on the track quicker, holding our walls stronger, switching from defense to offense together, and winning!
It was a crazy! In hindsight, we probably got wrapped up in the moment a bit much and it maybe cost us the game by two points (Final score 60-58). But we didn't really care. It honestly felt like we won. Just look at these faces.....
