Scandal have now won two of the three Triple Crown Tour legs, while Truck Stop made a comeback to win on universe and Disco Club pulled off the upset of the season
September 7, 2026 by Zack Davis, Aidan Thomas and Alex Rubin in Recap
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Three champions were crowned this Labor Day in Washington DC Scandal, Washington DC Truck Stop, and Austin Disco Club. That caps the club regular season, with all three winners expected to use these final reps as tuneups for deep bracket runs at Nationals in just over a month. Read on for recaps from finals Monday, and check out all the coverage and results from the 2026 Pro Championships.
Scandal Superior
If you were at all doubtful that #1 Washington D.C. Scandal would be able to double peak, I don’t think there can be any evidence more convincing than their win over #6 Seattle Riot in the final of Pro Champs. They look like they never left Limerick. They look like the best team in the world.
Riot, for their part, were generating a lot of buzz for beating #3 Denver Molly Brown yesterday, and for good reason. They look like a Nationals semifinal level team. What’s more is that even after the dismantling they were subjected to today at the hands of Scandal, Riot should still be considered a semifinal level team. Scandal are just that good.
The teams traded holds to start the game and then Scandal started the break train and kept it rolling, taking half 8-2 and finishing out the game 15-3.
It’s worth noting that there was no Claire Trop all weekend, and Kami Groom took a back seat as well, but clearly it didn’t make a difference in terms of results. Kira Flores and Anna Cauchy were once again in the lead role that they’d taken on in the last two days, but there are no role players on Scandal.
Ashleigh Jentilet had an outstanding game, particularly on the defensive side of things, to put a punctuation mark on a spectacular weekend performance. Maddy Boyle was making plays, highlighted by a big sky in the second half. Kat McGuire and Melisa Dang were an excellent pair of facilitators, keeping the offensive flow going for Scandal. Jordan Sorenson was playing exceptional defense, setting up a no fly zone in the deep space and, if not quite winning the matchup, fairing well against Riot’s Lauren Goddu.
That was more or less that. In a blink-and-you-miss-it game, Scandal are your 2026 Pro Championship champions. Scandal will go into the post season undefeated, favorites for national champions, and by extension favorites for the first TCT crown in women’s division history.
Truck Don’t Stop
Matt Gouchoe-Hanas was the best player on the field in the Pro Championships Final between #8 Washington D.C. Truck Stop and #9 Raleigh Ring of Fire. He was instrumental in Raleigh’s offense, collected a callahan, and seemingly could not be stopped. In a bracket game at Nationals, he almost certainly would have been on the field for Raleigh’s universe point, where they needed to break to win.
But he wasn’t, and Raleigh paid the price.
Ring of Fire earned a break chance on double game point, a rarity in a generally clean final in which Ring had just five break chances. With no Gouchoe-Hanas on the field, Ring had two other O-line crossovers in Dylan Hawkins and Matt Barcellos to run the show, and they could not get into gear. Eventually, a miscommunication between Trevor Lynch and Grayson Trowbridge doomed the ill-fated break opportunity; Tyler Monroe raced in for an easy catch block, flipped to Elliot Bonnet, and Truck Stop converted the dirty hold to complete a comeback from 12-10 down, winning the 2026 Pro Championships 15-14.
In a weakened Pro Champs field, Truck Stop and Ring of Fire were pre-tournament favorites, and they played that way largely in getting to the final with matching 5-0 records. On Monday afternoon, both offenses shined with just nine combined turnovers in 29 points. Through a battle of Ring of Fire’s inconsistent offense versus a Truck Stop D-line that struggled to get turns, one exceptional block and a couple of unforced Raleigh errors late in the contest proved the difference.
Ring of Fire started hot, holding and then breaking. Their tight matchup defense gave Truck fits throughout the game, particularly in endzone sets, and Henri Lessard came flying through for a layout block to earn the break chance. Kevin Pignone connected with Justin-Cooper Williams on the counter and Ring led 2-0.
It was the only break and one of two total turnovers in a first half that was completed in under 30 minutes. The other turn came on a Ring deep shot that was blocked by Louis Betrancourt, but Gouchoe-Hanas promptly got it back. With John McDonnell providing a fantastic mark, Gouchoe-Hanas shut down additional reset options and collected the floaty backhand reset effort for a callahan that put Ring up 5-3.
That served as Gouchoue-Hanas’ third goal of the half, just the start of a phenomenal statline that featured three assists, six goals and a block by the end of the contest. Some of his best work came in an early-second half huck, where he grinded out tough yards in the handler space against heavy Truck Stop pressure before firing an absolute dime of a same-third flick huck to Eli Fried (1A/3G).
However, shortly after that huck, the tide began to turn. First Truck survived what could have been a game-killer, holding on a four-minute long point that featured two turnovers from each team. Except for double game point, it was the only multi-turnover point of the game, but eventually some clinical small space cutting from Christian Boxley got Truck Stop into the end zone.
On the ensuing point, Ring shot themselves in the foot with a pure drop on a reset attempt, and Truck countered quickly for the break, as Moussa Dia and Micah Wagner connected to punctuate a clean endzone set.
Ring stabilized and actually broke back a few points later to go back up 12-10. With Truck having generated just two break chances, and only truly forced one of Ring’s two O-line turnovers, it felt like game, set, and match.
However, Truck weren’t done. First, Louis Betrancourt delivered a fantastic shoulder-high layout block to give DC an opportunity. A few throws later, he caught an under, continued to Sofiene Bontemps, and Bontemps drifted a flick down the right sideline, keeping it just within reach of a bidding, toe-dragging Alexandre Fall.
Seemingly rattled, Ring didn’t really make Truck earn the next turnover, as a simple turf job on a backhand around gifted Truck their decisive break opportunity. The Mid Atlantic powerhouse did their job with clean short-field offense, and Aidan Downey zipped a flick into the inside space for a Jasper Tom goal and 13-12 lead.
That break was followed by three straight holds to set the stage for double game point, where Ring of Fire launched a pull that never came back in bounds. Gifted a short field, Truck’s dominator endzone set couldn’t separate, and an inside-flick lofted too high and was caught by Williams. After a timeout, however, Ring of Fire couldn’t draw up any offensive flow, and when Trowbridge abruptly cut off his under cut to head to the break side, Lynch’s flick was swallowed by Monroe, and it was curtains for Ring’s title hopes.
AJ Merriman starred for Truck Stop with four assists, one goal, and one block. He crossed over for the final Truck Stop break, helping DC finish 3-for-4 on break opportunities; Ring of Fire, in contrast, converted two of their five chances. Bonnet had four goals, including the game-winner.
Entering the game, Ring of Fire were ranked sixth in the projected rankings, and Truck Stop was ranked ninth, so it is likely this head-to-head result may have some direct seeding implications at Nationals in seven weeks. It’s Truck’s first Pro Champs title since winning back-to-back in 2022-2023; they finished the tournament in last place the previous two seasons.
Austin Tournament Winners Club
In perhaps the upset of the year, #10 Austin Disco Club took down #1 Ann Arbor Hybrid 15-13 to win the final Triple Crown Tour event of the regular season.
Disco Club took an initial advantage and withstood pressure throughout the game. On the first point, Sesha McMinn blocked Abe Coffin’s stall nine bailout huck aimed at Maketa Mattimore, and Disco Club worked the disc all 70 yards for an opening break. Soon after, Jean Huang dropped a swing pass and Jaime Estes completed a double score away shot (her first attempt was called back on a travel) to give Disco Club a 2-0 lead. Though Hybrid would claw back a break midway through the first half, punctuated by a sliding Eileen Bequette to reel in Charlie Vukovic’s away shot, Austin rode their momentum and confidence through all of the pressure that Hybrid could bring and took a 8-7 lead into the break.
Hybrid had their chances in the second half; Bequette got her hand on an in cut, but a miscommunication between Chase Cunningham and Jeff Weis gave the disc right back to Disco Club, who were able to build an 11-8 lead.
But Hybrid were the favorites for a reason, and would not go away easily. A doinked reset grab by Bennett Wachob gave Hybrid a break chance and Jack Shanahan combined with Ellie Jose to run a quick redzone set and start to draw closer. A layout from Lili Hobday and a swatted deep ball from Vukovic gave Hybrid two chances to tie the game, but Disco Club persevered through each chance. The steady handling of Saaketh Palchuru and Carly Atwell was able to withstand both the on-field and mental pressure that playing in a tournament final against Hybrid can bring.
After Sara Nitz blocked a last-ditch deep huck, Hybrid had one final chance, but Myles Armstrong powered his way through a reset catch block and set off the fast break for the game-winning score.
As the season shifts to the postseason series, ADC’s win will give hope to teams all over the country that Hybrid are in fact beatable. The team that has largely looked untouchable through the 2024 and 2025 USA Ultimate Club Championships and this season’s World Ultimate Club Championships has not lost a competitive game like this in two years, since their quarterfinal loss in the 2024 Pro Champs tournament. Though Hybrid will still enter Nationals among the favorites, this result opens up the reality that a team other than the dynastic group from Ann Arbor could win a title.
