Intramural Sports | Pre-October break champions

Steve Buofiglio Columnist

Volleyball

Team Gay Sex defeated CIS for the volleyball championship by virtue of a 25-18, 22-25, 26-24 triumph. Tracey “Blast ‘Em” Blasenheim ’08 sparked the win. ESPN Classic will be replaying the match this Sunday at 10 p.m. The win was all the more sweet as it counteracted CIS’ zany “Ace Dance,” although they certainly do get points for originality.
Softball

Apparently Gay Sex can be beaten. Look At Me I’m So Pretty did so en route to the Softball crown. Team Gay Sex defeated Rufio and the Lost Boys, 8-7 in one semifinal to reach the championship. The turning point may have been when Dan “The Man” Schwartz ’07 was robbed of his third extra base hit of the day as Ben “Beat ‘em Again” Coleman ’09 turned into a gem in left field.

Look At Me I’m So Pretty downed W.E.B and da Boyz, 14-11 in the other semifinal, despite the stellar play at the hot corner turned in by Mike “Mighty Mooch” Mucciolo ’06.

That set up the finale, which turned out to be a slugfest as team Pretty put 18 runs on the board (actually we don’t have a board, but we do have a 65 cent note pad) to Gay Sex’s ten. Brandon “The Kid” Costelloe-Kuehn ’06, Nora “No Hitter” Cullen ’07, Jeff “Way Back” Werner ’06, Sam “Budweiser” Adams ’07 and Zack “Attack” Wagner ’07 were amongst the stars who put the pretty play in Look At Me I’m So Pretty.

Water Polo

Gay Sex (yes, the ubiquitous Team Gay Sex) triumphed in Water Polo. When asked for comment Jacob “Iron Jake” Shiffrin ’07 rambled on about teamwork, the conditioning, the desire to get a shirt, stuff like that. We weren’t really listening. Actually, we didn’t ask, but we can imagine that if we had, it would have turned out that way. Anyway, congrats are in order.

Comp Basketball

Gay Sex dominated this week, but not in basketball. If they could get Prescott to play for them, they almost certainly would. I think if the Knicks got Prescott, the Garden would rock like it was 1973 again. But Prescott plays for Team Old, who completed an undefeated season by beating PHAGTWH (short for “Play Hard and Good Things Will Happen”). The PHAGTWH gang dropped behind early as Angel “Takes Flight” Mason of the Athletics Department converted on a lay-up two seconds into the game—no four corners offense in IMs. Danny “

Fundamentals” Fahey ’06 made a shot for PHAGTWH, then Prescott buried a trey. PHAGTWH’s Paulsak “Long Range Attack” Vachiraprapun ’05 knocked down a trey as the halftime buzzer sounded. No matter, Prescott converted a rebound the next time his team missed and move back a bit further before burying another trey on the next possession. Keith “Mr. IM 2005” Croxton ’06 answered with a deuce. Did this make any difference? No, it did not. It just signaled to Prescott that is was time to move back yet again and yet again bury a trey bomb. The man is a veritable steam shovel. Game over, but it was never really a game so long as Prescott was around.

Rec Basketball

Thankfully for Team Jake Raymond, Team Bolognious does not have Prescott or anyone from Team Old or even Gay Sex on the roster, and accordingly, Jake easily took the Rec title. Max “Crazy” Leiber ’07 played with a broken nose and stitches from a softball mishap—such a mild word to describe a broken nose. Anyway, this earns him the IM Award for Most Dedication. Either that or he is the person Most In Need of Doing Laundry and Therefore Must Win The Shirt.

Comp Soccer

APGS scored a 3-0 win over defending champions ECOMOG to take the Comp Soccer championship. Andrew “Old Kid On The” Block ’06 converted on a penalty kick and moments later Jake “Don’t Kick the Ball By the Lake” Arlein ’09 converted on a goal. That was pretty much all she wrote.

IMs for the rest of the semester: Entries are due Sunday, Oct. 30—get them to stbuonfiglio@vassar.edu ASAP or you’ll miss the bobbing for apples contest.

3v3 Basketball —compete on Wed. and Sun.

5v5 Indoor Soccer—compete Mon., Tue., Sun.

6v6 Volleyball—compete on Wed. and Sun.

Team Handball—compete on Sun.

Dodgeball—one-day tourney, Sun., Nov. 20.

Badminton—another one-day extravaganza, Thur., Nov. 17.

Ping Pong—one-day event yet again, Thur. Nov. 10.