Raleighwood takes on NC

This past weekend was North Carolina mixed sectionals. This is the start of the championship series in which you have to qualify to move on to the next round. There were 7 mixed teams in North Carolina that all met in Advance, near Winston Salem, for a round robin into bracket play championship. Raleighwood came out strong on Saturday and won all of our 4 games, including the game against the #1 seed, and our biggest rival, Cahoots. 

On Sunday we won two more pool play games and were automatically in the championship game against Cahoots again. It was a very closely matched game but we ended up losing on double game point 12-11.  

I cannot be prouder of how our team played. Raleighwood has a history of being a little streaky and not always playing up to our potential. We come out slow on each tournament day and can easily get in our heads and stop playing well. I don't think we had any of that this weekend. Everybody came out strong in every game and everybody was happy and excited to be there. We left with a 2nd place finish and a ticket to Regionals in Atlanta in two weeks!

Since Raleighwood is so close to Winston Salem, Derrick's mom was able to come watch us on both days and my mom was able to come watch us on Sunday. I'm glad we were able to put on a good show for them!

Derrick and I won't be able to play at Regionals in a couple weeks. Michael and Rebecca are getting married that weekend and it's going to be fabulous! This is probably our last chance to play this competitively with Jack for a while. He is going to move on to men's for next club season but I am so happy he decided to share one more season with Derrick and I. I have loved watching him grow as a player and he is extremely talented on the frisbee field. He'll do the Marcey-Williams clan proud at regionals :)