Sports Recreation
Sports
Getting knocked around
By The Front | April 12“You can’t dribble the ball at all, so you just keep running. If you hit it once, you pretty much hit it down the field, and you just wait for it to come back again,” Bauer said. Bauer’s team, Class on Grass, made it to the women’s finals. Even with only three points needed to win a game, students appeared to be focusing on taking each other out. More often than not, games would go into sudden death, where one player from each team squared off to score one point; Piehler won his team's first game in this way. “It was just me and the other guy pounding each other back and forth until we eventually got too tired to run,” Piehler said. Even those not participating in the games enjoyed themselves as laughter erupted throughout the day while players were falling and rolling all over the field. “It just seems like a fun sport that everyone likes to watch. Everyone likes watching somebody hit each other,” senior and tournament organizer Josh Lease said. The Rec Center Intramurals staff plans on organizing their own tournaments and was happy to lend the equipment out to The Ark as a way of measuring interest in KnockerBall. Senior Conor Gorman, intramurals supervisor, was pleasantly surprised with the turnout for the event. “It was great to see people get involved with intramural sports,” Gorman said. “Expect at least one more tournament before the end of the quarter.” If students would like to sign-up for the upcoming KnockerBall tournament, they can contact the Rec Center for more information.
Sports
Freshman of the Year: Daniel Jones
By The Front | April 5Winning an award this early on in his college career was not something freshman Daniel Jones expected. For someone who is considered quiet, winning Great Northeast Athletic Conference Indoor Track Male Freshman of the Year speaks volumes.
Sports
Four Western athletes selected for hall of fame
By The Front | April 5Western announced the names of four former athletes to become the latest class selected for induction into the Western Athletics Hall of Fame. The hall of fame, which was started in 1968, is the oldest collegiate hall of fame in the Pacific Northwest. This year’s class brings the total numbers of inductees to 136. Each member of the class of 2016 was selected to Western’s All-Century Team for their respective sports in 1999.
