BY TARIQ FISCHER

In print | Published March 31, 2005

Another weekend, another batch of wins for the Frisbee teams.

And this time they did it while still finding time to party at the annual Sager dance. Like Sager, Haverford’s Layout Pigout tournament last Saturday and Sunday turned very ugly very quickly, as both the Earthworms and Warmothers swept their first day’s games.

“If I had to sum up the tournament in two words, it’d be ‘the us[ual]’,” Earthworm Jacob “Streets of Jakarta” Wallace ‘05 said. The ’Worms have gotten used to success this season, winning 23 of their last 28 games. The squad went 8-0 at Haverford en route to the tournament championship. “The competition was weak,” Wallace said. "Well, I mean weak relative to us. Skidmore and Drew were solid teams, but we weren’t really tested." The Earthworms defeated Skidmore and Drew — who started the tournament ranked above the ’Worms — 13-7 and 11-6, respectively.

Wallace’s elephant-sized ego is surprisingly understandable, considering the squad’s record. “We’ve won three of our past four tournaments,” Wallace continued. “We really can’t be stopped.”

The ‘Worms played a notable game against Rochester in the first elimination round. “They were a bunch of hippies,” Wallace said. After removing his cleats, one Rochester player sprinted around the field not in an effort to score, but to take photographs of his teammates. Undaunted ’60s time warp Brandon Luzar ’05 threw an impressive p-point, passing the disc through a Rochester player’s legs into the end zone for the score.

After tossing Skidmore and Drew aside like so much unrecyclable refuse in the quarter- and semi-finals, the ‘Worms faced UPenn. The tournament’s grueling schedule was beginning to take its toll on the squad, however. “We’d played seven straight games and we’d lost a lot of players [on Sunday] due to Sager hangovers,” Wallace said. UPenn came out strong and took a 15-14 lead, pushing Swarthmore to the brink of its first loss of the weekend. However, the team scored three unanswered points to win the game and the tournament.

The Warmothers fared almost as well as the men’s team, sweeping their group and scoring some beautiful points along the way. Against CMU/Pitt, Cassie Barnum ’06 went horizontal to score in the rout.

Emily Schneider ‘07 produced the play of the tournament, however, against Haverford in the first day of action. After swatting a Haverford pass near the end zone, Schneider dove forward to catch her own deflection and score a Callahan point. In addition to embarrassing Haverford, the play drew acclaim and catcalls from the nearby F & M men’s team.

Barnum proved essential throughout the weekend, battling sickness in order to lead the team in the semifinals against Rochester. Originally expected to miss the second day of the tournament, Barnum arrived mid-game ready to play — in jeans and glasses.

“They were a solid team and very scrappy,” Sasha Laundy ’06 said of Rochester. “They threw extremely well and caught bad throws that other teams would have dropped.”

“We should have totally schooled [Rochester],” Anna Mello ’08 said. “The Warmoms are amazing; we did a really good job coming together this weekend.”

Despite injuries and scheduling conflicts that cost the Warmothers players on Sunday, the squad went on to win handily in the third place game.

Both teams are looking to ride their current momentum through the sectional and regional tournaments into nationals. However, Penn State’s April 2 Spring Phling tournament will be the next event to suffer Swarthmore’s Khan-like wrath.

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