The next time M.U.T. got together was in November of 2006 to once again play in Dartmouth's Frozen Disc of Death. To the crew that played at Ow My Knee in 05 we added Socks, Mackey, some more Wellesley women, and of course Colin Mahoney. This tournament is still one of the absolute best I've ever played in, which means a lot to me since I was the TD. All of M.U.T. was crammed into 17 school, pasta jamming and watching 'Stick It', the party had a bonfire and good beer, I had hot chocolate and gummy bears at tourney central, and the weather was awesome.
M.U.T., made an appearance at M.i.U.T., Mike's injured ultimate team, as many of us were dealing with some rather big injuries. Ralph had some wrist thing wasn't supposed to throw, Seth had some shoulder thing and wasn't supposed to huck, Fishie also had a shoulder thing, Jersey and Socks had knee things, and Tyke had torn her ACL a few weeks prior and couldn't play at all. That didn't keep us from continuing to have fun though. I donned the penguin suit for the first time and time outs involved various forms of cuddling or games of chicken.
Oh yeah, and we won the tournament going away. I had seeded us 4th out of 16, behind the Dartmouth Alums and Dartmouth 07/08 teams that I thought would be our biggest competition. Unfortunately we didn't get to play either of them as they lost in bracket play, giving us a tough game against Enough Monkeys and their zone that we barely pulled out thanks to the handling skills of Mike and Socks. We went up big on UMass in the finals and spent our last few points trying to get the huck connection from Colin to Snitch completed, which we finally did, giving us M.U.T.'s first tournament win.
Months passed and most of us graduated and moved on, in my case I moved to Wisconsin. That didn't stop Tyke and I from flying out to meet up with Socks, Mike, Seth, Min, Ralph, and Fishie to play at Wildwood in July of 2007. This tournament saw the first ever M.U.T. jerseys and frequent trips to swim in the ocean between games. And of course we won again. Sort of. We went 6-0 and were about to play the finals when some people had to leave to catch flights, so those of us that remained finagled our way into a tie for first which involved Seth and a guy from the other team co-carrying the trophy and yelling in celebration. I think we got to keep that trophy though. Anyone know where it is? Do you have it Mike? You should. Our winning streak was again almost halted in the semis of Wildwood when we found ourselves down 2 with the hard cap on. Thankfully Wildwood has 2 point goals, so after the pull we worked the disc backwards into our end zone and Mike hit Seth for the 2 pointer to tie and force universe. Of course we scored on universe.
The bond of M.U.T. was so strong in the summer of 2008 that M.U.T. returned to play at Ow My Knee despite the fact that the team's namesake was unable to attend. Joining us this time were Min, Cabo, and Kell. The later two who showed up 2 hours late Saturday to much rejoicing as it upped our male roster from 6 to 8. Due to confusion with a Canadian mixed team called MUTT in the score reporter, M.U.T. came into the tournament seeded 25th of 32 teams. We tried to talk our way into a higher seed from the TD, but he wouldn't budge, leading to Mackey's phrase directed at the TD and any team we played that weekend "Just so you're not surprised... We're really good". Those were indeed prophetic words, as aside from another tight game with Enough Monkeys, we rolled our way into the semis, winning every game 13-5 or thereabouts. Unfortunately for me I hurt my knee in the first game on Saturday (oh the irony) and didn't play much. After a decently close game in the semis, we were playing 7 Express in finals and the game went to universe point with M.U.T. receiving. 7 Express was so concerned with Ralph cutting deep that two girls followed her under, leaving Fishie wide open to catch a huck from Seth and win the tournament on a 3 throw point. Celebration obviously consisted of a giant cuddle puddle.
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