Cheryl Klein, Emily Pike, Katy Beebe, and Lars Skjelset went 7-1 in preliminary play, losing only to Iowa State A, the eventual tournament champions. In the first round of the playoffs we defeated Iowa State B, but in the semifinals we lost to the University of Missouri-Rolla. Lars and Cheryl were each among the top ten scorers for the tournament, and represented us in the individual "shootout" rounds for tournament all-stars.
Andy Felton, Dan Snyder, Emily, and Jack Cragwall went, and finished smack dab in the middle: tied with Iowa for 11th place in a field of 22, with a record of 7-7.
We finished in 8th place. Luke Beland pulled off a nice upset over Wisconsin at #2 singles, but otherwise we didn't do much to crow about. Nice dinner in a Chinese restaurant in Burnsville after the tournament.
Andy, Cheryl, Emily, and Steve Jenkins went 12-6 to finish 3rd, behind the Univ. of Minnesota and the Univ. of Iowa, and qualify for the NAQT Championship Tournament in Philadelphia. Emily made the tournament all-star team. Emily and Cheryl may have finished 1-2 in ratio of tossups to interrupts: they are exceedingly accurate buzzers. Our "B" team of Andrew Ulland, Dan, Katy, and Luke, went 7-11.
Andy, Cheryl, Emily, and Steve went 8-7 and finished 35th in the 64 team field. We were the youngest team competing, and from the third smallest school. Our 8 victories were over Penn, Vanderbilt B, Chicago B, Columbia B, Case Western Reserve, Randolph-Macon, Harvard B, and Wisconsin. (Versus Wisconsin, the team of the Carleton-Wisconsin jinx, we were 45 points down going into the final question, with seven seconds left on the clock. Then Cheryl got a 15 point power tossup on "Mike Ovitz," and we answered the MTV Music Video Awards bonus questions for all 30 points to tie the game and send it into overtime. In the three-tossup overtime, we got the first question, they got the second, and then they neg. fived the third to give Carleton a 240-235 win.)
A very good tournament for Carleton. Our A team of Cheryl, Emily, John Weiss, and Katy went 11-3(?) in the preliminary rounds, and then lost in the playoff semifinals to Minnesota, by 5 points. Our B team of Andy, Dan, Luke, and Steve went 5-9. Both teams beat Wisconsin, of course.... Emily was voted to the 2nd position on the tournament all-star team, right behind an immortal, Chicago's John Sheahan. Carleton A also received an award for having written the best question packet. No encounters with dwarfish tow-truck drivers or bonding experiences in the back of state patrol cars on the way home this year (unlike last), but stopping the van for a quick shopping visit to Borders on the way out of Madison proved popular.
Andrew, Cheryl, Emily, and John flew to Atlanta to compete in this tournament limited to Freshmen and Sophomores. We finished 3rd in the tournament, with a record of 7-3. We defeated each of the teams finishing 1st and 2nd, the Univ. of South Carolina and Wofford College, but lost matches to Georgia Tech, Michigan, and Penn B.
The same weekend that our "A" team attended the Junior Bird in Atlanta, our "B" team represented us at College Bowl regionals. Dan, Katy, Luke, Sarah Lorenz, and Steve finished tied for 4th out of eight teams, with a record of 5-9. Steve made the all-star team. A blizzard moving across central Iowa on the way home forced us to wait out the storm in Ames, where we dined at Little Taipei and then played questions for several hours with some of the Iowa State players before getting back on the road. We had fun.
(Our coach's weekend: Friday morning he drove the Emory-bound team to the airport, then returned to campus to collect the other team and drive to Iowa City, where he was tournament director for the College Bowl regionals. Back to Northfield on Saturday, via the blizzard and stopover in Ames, which meant we didn't get back to town until nearly 2 am on Sunday. A few hours of sleep, and then he was back at the airport later that morning collecting the team returning from Atlanta. Note: he isn't being paid for this!)
We were pretty pleased with the 7th place finish here of the team of Andrew, Andy, Cheryl, and Emily, in a tough field of 18. Our A team's record was 7-4, and Emily was among the tournament's top scorers. We scalped Wisconsin another time. Our B team of Dan, Katy, and Luke played shorthanded, but did manage to pick up one win and avoid last place. Saturday night we stayed over at Emily's house in De Kalb, ate pizza, watched So I Married an Axe-Murderer and then broke out the buzzers again for more practice at midnight. Our coach really likes us.
We took 1 and 3/4 teams. As the regular Carleton team, Andrew, Andy, Emily and Neil Macker finished 6th in the tournament, going 6-5 in the full round robin, and then 2-1 in the second quartile playoff round robin. This tournament welcomed "Masters" players as well as students, and so our coach also entered a team -- Eric played with Dan and Steve, and a former Iowa State player, J.L. Nelson, as "The Mongrel Horde." This team finished 3rd in the tournament, going 8-3 in the full round robin, and 2-1 in the first quartile playoffs. The Mongrels gave the tournament champion Iowa State team their only loss of the tournament, but were defeated twice by the second place Illinois team, one of those losses coming in overtime. In the "Lightning Round" competition for individuals, six of the seven Carleton-connected players advanced from the first round to the second, and one (Eric) advanced from the second round to the final round, where he finished 4th. Eric also received a medal as a member of the six-person tournament all-star team.
Andrew, Andy, Dan and Emily went. We met our goal, which was to soak up some valuable experience playing against the nation's best teams. As the field for this tournament was la creme de la creme, wins were hard to come by for our frosh/soph squad -- we went 4-9, with our victories coming over the Univ. of Texas, M.I.T., Chicago B, and Iowa State B. Andy was our top scorer for this one. Thanks to Emily's parents for putting us up in DeKalb on Saturday night!
WE WON! Andrew, Andy, Cheryl, and Emily went 8-1 to bring home a championship trophy in a tournament limited to undergraduate players with less than two years of intercollegiate playing experience. The team avenged their one loss -- to a good Illinois team -- with a victory in the playoff rematch, a game in which Cheryl went 6-0 and grabbed five of the first nine tossups. Earlier, Emily and Andy each had 8-tossup games. Overall, this Carleton team was pretty dominant in the tournament, outscoring their opponents 3100-775 over nine games (an average margin of victory of more than 250 points per game). Andy, Emily, and Cheryl were awarded three of the five places on the tournament's honorary all-star team. Carleton B -- Luke and Steve playing shorthanded, took fourth in the tournament. Andy, Emily, Cheryl, and Steve all finished in the top seven in individual scoring.
Carleton 13, Minnesota 5. This involved matches similar to the Deep Bench format, in that each school divided 8 players into two singles players, three doubles teams, and two quad teams. All these teams played matches versus their counterparts from the other school, plus the two singles players combined as a doubles team for one match versus the other school's two singles players, for a total of 18 matches. We used questions from Swarthmore's recent Questions on the Crum tournament. Carleton's lineup was Emily and Andy playing singles, doubles teams of Lars and Neil, Cheryl and Dan, and Andrew, Luke, and Steve (substituting), and quads of Andrew, Emily, Lars, Luke, and Neil (substituting), and Andy, Cheryl, Dan, and Steve. We won all four quads matches, two of the four singles matches, and seven of the ten doubles matches.
This informal event wasn't something we officially participated in as a team (i.e., spending money from our budget on), but a few of us drove up that afternoon to see how we'd fare on packets full of nothing but the so-called "trash" subjects: sports, pop music, movies, TV, pop culture generally. As it turned out, we fared very well. Cheryl, Lars, Neil and Steve, our resident trashmasters, finished second, losing only one game, and winning most matches in dominant fashion. The tournament champions, responsible for that one loss, included our coach, Eric, playing as a twosome with a ringer friend of his, Eric Reehl. This team of Erics, playing under the nom de guerre "Heathers," went undefeated. Highlights of play included Steve's word perfect musical rendition of the complete theme song to the Gary Shandling show, and Eric's winning a match that came down to the last tossup by getting a _TV_ question of all things. (Eric claims to have seen almost no television in the '90s, and precious little since the '70s, but, amazingly, he was first to recognize cast members of "Family Ties" -- getting it off of Tracy Pollan, as he _had_ seen the handful of episodes she was in during the 1985-86 season, and thought she was quite fetching.) This concluded the most active, and one of the most successful, seasons Carleton has enjoyed to date.
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