written by Leet
The annual Sean Ryan Memorial Tournament started out with us matched up against Humboldt for the first game.  Right off the bat, our team was aggressive taking initiative to move the disc quickly.  Humboldt kept up steadily as we continued to trade points back and forth but time was on our side as we took the game defeating the number one seed in our pool 9-8.

After a long break of two byes, our game against UC Santa Barbara was yet another fast paced game. The Psychos responded with great dump D, shutting down their handler offense set and preventing them from moving the disc.  There were some big plays, on both teams, but we were able to capitalize on turnovers. We answered back with many deep looks, as the wind began to pick up, which resulted in our 11-7 victory.

In our last game of the day, we faced Cal Poly SLO, a very familiar opponent.  Our rookies continued to improve and seemed to pick up the strategy of game play, coming up with a few D’s and great runs down in the endzone.  We had many miraculous grabs and had a final point with 5 of our rookies ending the day and game with a successful 12-11 score. With a 3-0 record on Saturday and coming out first in our pool, originally seeded 3rd and 10th overall, we would play in the championship bracket on Sunday.

Heading into the championship bracket Sunday morning, we found ourselves playing a very aggressive game against SDSU.  SDSU came out strong, scoring the first 2 points, but we continued to fight, scoring several points in a row. State came back to tie us and we continued trading points. The Psychos never let up and continued to push while playing aggressive defense. It was a very physical game but the Psychos still left the field proud even with an 11-13 loss.

Claremont was up next and the Psychos continued to be aggressive as we moved the disc really quickly, picking up the pace for every point.  Many of our deep shots connected and our D was solid but we allowed Claremont to catch up when our fast pace turned into too many throws to no one.  However, the Psychos were able to come up to win on universe with smart break cuts to the endzone.

The Psychos never let up even in the final game of the tournament against Sonoma State.  Also a very quick team with capable handlers, aggressive D was going to be main issue in this game.  It was a very tight game and even though we took half, our teams kept trading points all the way to universe.  Though it was a loss, our team came up with a lot of great grabs and great timing for deep cuts.  The tournament was a great indicator of how much our team could grow as we left Santa Cruz with a record of 4-2 and just a 3-point differential in our 2 losses.

written by Tiffany "Leet" Chang

UCLA One Day is always an exciting start for the Southwest division as seen by both our returners and excited fresh faces of our rookies when we rolled into Sunday morning.  The Psychos were split into two teams led by our A-team captains who drew inspiration from Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop” to pump up Team X and Y.

There was not quite enough time for Team Y to warm up when we got to our assigned field but we faced a familiar opponent – Long Beach.  Though slow to get into the game as the wet fields clogged up our cleats, once both the rookies and returners got into the swing of things, the team stepped it up to go from trailing by a couple points to taking half at 7-4. No Regrets was not going to let up easy though as they sped up the game to catch us at 8-7. But our rookies never gave up either as we finally took it to hard cap at 9-7.

After a short bye, we faced yet another familiar team, USC. As returners matched up with familiar opponents, we were able to keep our ground as our rookies worked hard to get open. But it wasn’t enough as USC took half. We continued to push our defense with a small 2-man cup which forced USC’s returner handlers to swing more and slow their huck-heavy play but our team eventually fell to USC.

In order to play a fourth game, we had to win our next to finish 1st or 2nd in our pool. The afternoon sun beat down on us and it was apparent that the heat was taking a toll on both teams.  We saw our rookies gainmore confidence and had multiple rookie-to-rookie scores in this game. As our team worked hard to capitalize on fast breaks, we finally broke away and took the game.

Our final game was up against the 2nd Green Shirts team proved to be much more difficult.  Many long points were drawn out as the day wore us out.  The Green Shirts edged us out of a win but the final 7 on were able to go out taking the last point as hard cap expired.

written by Chip

Heading over to Scottsdale, AZ for Regionals, we were greeted with hot weather and great competition. All the work we put into this season would come down to this weekend.

Saturday morning our first game was against Stanford. We couldn't get our offense started and unable to capitalize on key moments, we lost 7-11. Our next game was against UC Davis. The last time we saw them was at Pres Day. Davis came out ready to play, while we still looked sluggish. The biggest problem we've had this season was scoring on the endzone line. This game was no different. Unable to convert points on our endzone, Davis easily took half and eventually took the game 7-13.

Our third game was against Sonoma State. We picked ourselves up and kept up with Sonoma throughout the game, even taking the leading by a point or two. But Sonoma continued to fight and outplayed us to take the win 9-13. Our fourth game was against USC, a team we've seen countless times. Though it was the last game of the day, we continued to fight through every point taking the win 13-3.

We finished our last game of pool play on Sunday against UCLA. Again, we struggled on offense, losing the game 5-13 and finishing 5th in pool play. But we still had a shot at Nationals via the back door bracket.

Now in elimination round, our next opponent was San Diego State. We started off the game ready to play, scoring the first two points. But SDSU continued to fight back and took half. This weekend, we were a second half team. We started to convert on offense and scored several points against State, but after falling so far behind it was hard catching up during the second half. SDSU took the game 8-15, putting us out of contention for Nationals.

With the last game of our season against UC Santa Cruz, who we've seen multiple times this season, we were trailing at half. Again, we scored more points in the second half than we did in the first half, but time was against us and Santa Cruz took the game 9-11.