A few passes later and they’d completed the upset 15-12.
Monkey pulled it deep into PUC’s endzone and got a quick D off a PUC misthrow. Monkey calmed down and the two teams traded O-points to make it 14-12. PUC finally scored their O-point and bounced back on defense with two hucks from Tazio Torrieri to make it 12-11 with Monkey up, but looking rattled. After a short field turnover and an easy endzone conversion at 12-8, it looked like Monkey had put the nail in the coffin. Their zone continued to wear down the PUC O-line. While both offenses started off stingy with the disc, Monkey managed to take two breaks in the first half off of their zone and their sideline energy to go up 8-6.ĭespite excellent handler defense from PUC’s Mario Cantú on Espitia, Monkey was able to hold their offensive points with hucks to their big receivers. Espitia had big targets in Pauline Berte and Brice Nemoz downfield. Similarly, Monkey maintained a large portion of their 2019 roster, but added the throwing talent of Moby Espitia, who has played for Tchac and Belgium Open. PUC’s roster had a lot of turnover from when they went to EUCF in 2019, though they still maintained a central core of players who have been with the club for years. However, the third game of the day between PUC and Monkey was an intense battle from beginning to end. The results of the first two games went according to seed as PUC took down Freezgo 15-11 and Sesquidistus handled Freev’owl easily, 15-4. Sesquidistus and PUC also earned spots to the XEUCF, 1 but it is still unsure how many mixed bids WFDF will grant France for WUCC in the mixed division. Monkey finished the tournament undefeated and earned a guaranteed spot to WUCC and the XEUCF. The teams in contention included Sesquidistus (Strasbourg,), PUC Ultimate (Paris), Freezgo (Blois), Monkey (Grenoble), and Freev’Owl (Montbéliard). The format was a round robin with no final, meaning each team only had four games to make adjustments. The playing field was wide open and ripe for upsets due to roster shakeups and different training regimens since the return to play. This past weekend, five French teams battled in Blois for the bids to the XEUCF and WUCC 2022 at the Phase Qualitative Internationale (PQI). Grenoble advances to the international stage! Septemby Francis Dieterle in Recap with 0 comments Monkey celebrating their PQI victoryĭisclosure: The author of this piece played for PUC at the PQI
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