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So there it is, the alarm clock going off at a god awful 5:45am! Why am I doing this on Saturday morning? That is the question that ran threw my head this past Saturday as I was getting ready to head to Centralia, IL to play along the side of Gavin, Andy, and Tony in the intercollegiate tournament being held by the Illini and Gateway Disc Golf...

We all meet up and headed out of Carbondale for a short 90 minute drive up to Centralia to make it to registration at what we thought was 8:00am. I had in tote with me a fresh Americano to drink, and a full batch of freshly cooked cinnamon rolls. Where did I find time to make either of those this morning? I didn’t! but luckily for me and the other guys Melissa was nice enough to make us all breakfast, THANKS from us all! We also had to make a pitstop before getting to the course for more pick me up refreshments; including Ski , Doubleshots from Starbucks , and good old H2O.

Once we finally got there we saw no one in sight except a few vehicles from Kentucky. So we decided it was time to get some practice in the chilly 35 degree morning that was keeping us all awake and alert as possible. After a quick stretch and warm up session it was off to the course to hit a few holes before the others showed up.

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Centralia Intercollegiate Doubles

8:00am conditioning for the tournament.

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Gulp, gulp, gulp!

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Is that energy gum you say?

Centralia Intercollegiate Doubles

Yes its almost 10:30 for a 9:30 tee off?

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Dave from Gateway

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Hole #7 atop a hill

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Almost water!

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Wisconsin boys going for hole #8

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President Caveman! Teeing off hole #10.

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Tee off for hole #11.

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Caveman in his natural surroundings, this is a rare sighting.

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Wisconsin representative watering the foliage.

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Basket for hole #13

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Mini-Glow from Gateway

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Thomahawk!

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Second shot.

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Ah the long ones on the back nine, hole #15 is next.

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Around the bush to get it in.

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Good atempt at hole #15.

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Narrow fairway and extreme dog leg to the right on hole #17.

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Second shot from hole #18.

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Second shot in for a duece with my Ace Race disc.

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Basket for hole #1 after a long walk.

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Deep in the bush for a birdie chance.

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After we played about 5 or 6 holes we decided it was time to head back and get registered since it was approaching the 9:30 tee off time and no one from U of I or Gateway had shown yet (We found out later this was normal). Finally everyone was there to start registration, so I went and got our guys from playing early morning drinking games with their Coors pony key (I couldn’t bring myself to participate, I had quality scotch in tote).

For the player packages we received these ugly as hell yellow big bird shirts (come to find out this is due to another school giving crap to U of I for there questionable shirt designs), Gateway Diablo DT disc , Gateway mini, stickers, and Tony’s favorite energy gum. Now that we had our packages it was time to hear how we would be teamed up and where we would start.