PORTLAND, OR -- Sunday’s 7th-place Western Regional playoff game featured 7W Sacred City and 8W Jet City in a rematch from earlier this season in which Sacred City won in Sacremento.
PORTLAND, OR -- For the second time in 5 hours, 5W Bay Area dropped an enormous point total on an overmatched opponent in the consolation rounds of the West Region Playoffs.
[EDITOR'S NOTE - A previous version of this article stated that Oly had defeated Jet City 220-10 earlier this year; this was incorrect. Previous to this game, the most recent Oly / Jet City game was a 225-83 win for Oly in July 2010. Apologies for the error!]
PORTLAND, OR -- One of the biggest clichés in sports writing is to refer to a game as “a tale of two halves.” That being said, the opening bout of the Western Regional tournament was a tale of two halves. Jet City dominated the first thirty minutes, and Tucson woke up and made a game of it in the second half, but Tucson’s first-half hole was too deep for them to escape a 168-100 loss.
The second straight week of the WFTDA regional playoffs begin on Friday in Portland, OR; Rose City hosts the Bridgetown Brawl. Games begin at 10:30am Pacific on Friday, September 23rd and conclude on Sunday with the championship at 5:30pm Pacific.
BALTIMORE, MD -- #12 Charm City ended a 5-game sanctioned-game losing skid in definitive fashion by putting up a 292-77 win over visiting Jet City, sending Jet City to their largest-ever margin of defeat at 215 points. Charm City had previously defeated River City (2010) and Long Island (2007) by larger amounts.