A Cinderella story?

[Peter Matteson]

I can think of a few times where we picked teams who didn't think they would get picked because they were valuble to playing the game the way we played it that year, but other teams weren't playing the way we did and overlooked them. My favorite example of this is 2006 we were the Galileo 2 seed due to a tiebreaker. We picked 1126 first. A clear top choice to us. Our second pick was 201. They were a gem that no one had picked up on for our style of play. Only after we won the division did a mentor on 201 tell me that he had given the "Sometimes you try hard and just don't make it speech," the night before telling me they had no idea anyone would pick them. It felt good to take a team like that with us.

I could list off other similar stories but that was my favorite because I could see it in that mentor when he told me about talking to the kids how much it meant to them.

Also for Cinderella stories, don't forget about that pesky Newton 8th seed alliance that won the Championship a few years back...