Week two of intramurals brought its share of excitement as teams continue to prove themselves in both the basketball league and broomball tournament. Additionally, we saw the beginning of the indoor soccer league. Broomball started its second week of play with exciting games in the men’s 8-on-8 competitive broomball full ice tournament. In a close game, the Roll Tide Pods took its second victory of the season with a win over Stop N’ Dump with a final score of 1-0. In the corec broomball tournament, Church Group Getting Holy swept MUDBEAST.NET by a score of 3-0, leaving MUDBEAST.NET with their first loss of the season.
In the basketball tournament, the SAE LIONS captured its first victory of the season over Big Baller Brand in a well-fought game. In the second Wednesday night game, We Shoot 3s overtook NY Ballers, with We Shoot 3s shutting the game down in only half the time played
The final game of Wednesday pitted Team Recklexx against Scrambled Legz. In the most exciting game of the night with the biggest crowd, Team Recklexx walked away with the victory in a final score of 42-39.
On Thursday night, we saw three even more exciting games back to back. In the first game of the night, the Faikeys overtook Kappa Sigma in a final score of 51-43, handing the Faikeys its first victory of the season. In the second game, Snipers Everywhere took on United Nations, as the Snipers left United Nations devastated in a nailbiter of a game with a final score of 56-53. With the score exactly the same, Shooters Shoot defeated the Muff Divers in the final game of the night.
The tables, were turned, however, in the third week as teams who captured victories in week two were defeated. Snipers Everywhere defeated SAE LIONS with a final score of 60-50. Similarly, Team Recklexx fought hard but did not come out on top in a game separated by one point to Triumphant Vainly (47-46).
In the final game of the week, Tigers in the Jungle continued their winning streak against the bartons with a final score of 67-43.
As we come to the close of our week, we saw the beginnings of the soccer league. Soccer kicked off with five games in the first night, making it a very busy but exciting evening. Neverton took the first victory of the night against Boonk Squad by a final score of 13-3. Following the first game came a matchup between Rooney Toons and Kick My Balls, which was hard fought by both squads and ended in a tie. ChurchGroup PutinBallAway and Super Strikers saw a close game by a final score of 3-1, with ChurchGroup PutInBallAway coming away with their first victory of the season. Finally, Wanderers FC saw their first victory of the season against Deadly Daga with a finishing score of 5-1.
If these games prove anything, it is that we have some real talent on these soccer teams and it is looking to be quite an exciting season.
In the coming weeks, we see the beginnings of handball, volleyball and many others. It looks to be a very exciting semester here at Campus Rec.
