By Noam Gumerman

The Carolina Flyers extracted sweet revenge at home over the Atlanta Hustle with a comfortable 18-12 win this past weekend. One week after falling in a double-overtime heart breaker on the road, the Flyers took care of business and moved just a half-game out of first place in the South Division.

Despite both teams missing stars due to the USA Ultimate College National Championships, the Flyers looked unfazed for most of the night. They never trailed, jumping out to a 5-2 lead, and despite the Hustle grabbing a couple in a row to pull within one, and having a chance on offense to tie the game with the disc at 5-4, they couldn’t tie the game. A 5-4 first quarter score and then a 6-5 score a couple minutes into the second quarter was as close the game would get however. Carolina’s defense allowed just seven goals across the final 30:41 of the game. 

It wasn’t a perfect game from the offense, but it was more than good enough to back up that kind of performance defensively. The usual suspects showed up on offense for Carolina, Jacob Fairfax and Grayson Sanner had big games, as did Trevor Lynch. But the Flyers will be looking for a better mark than a 40% O-line Conversion Rate and a 57% Hold Rate moving forward. The paltry 12 goals scored by Atlanta is a franchise-low performance however, and is the second time the Flyers have given up 12 goals this season so far, the other time being on opening weekend against Las Vegas. If the Flyers keep playing elite complimentary ultimate, they will be a hard team to stop moving forward. 

The Flyers will head to Atlanta once again this weekend to play the rubber match of this three game stretch against the Hustle. Atlanta will get some of their biggest stars back from coaching and playing at college nationals, while the Flyers may finally see the 2026 debuts of highly-anticipated off season additions Tobias Brooks and Zeke Thoreson.