Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Kansas’ football team was in Lubbock, Texas, this weekend, but flags were all over the field back at Memorial Stadium.
The intramural flag football championships were held at Kivisto Field Saturday. Teams from the Co-Rec, Men’s Rec, greek and Men’s Competitive Rec leagues played off for “Intramural Champion” T-shirts.
Mitch Murrow, Lawrence junior, tries to outpace Adam Price, Garden City senior, in an effort to gain a first down during a flag football game last month. Murrow's team, the BFFs, and Price's team, the Mighty D's, were both undefeated prior to the game.
Saturday started with a Co-Rec championship matchup between Dirty Nasty and The Tenacious Tortfeasors at 9 a.m. The game’s defensive play set the tone for the rest of the day. Both teams had big-play opportunities but let them slip through their fingertips. Dirty Nasty made an acrobatic touchdown catch and pulled ahead 6-0 at the end of the game.
“We went out there with the mindset that we were going to win,” Clark Ellis, Bucklin junior, said. “And that’s what we did.”
Next on the schedule was the Men’s Rec championship of Child Please against The Red Rockets. The game was the highest scoring matchup of the day, but it was lopsided at times. Child Please scored 20 unanswered points at the beginning of the game, but the Red Rockets showed signs of life in the second half and scored 12 unanswered points of their own. The Rockets’ comeback fell short, though, and Child Please won the game 20-12.
The third game of the day was the greek championship between Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Beta Theta Pi. Fans supporting both fraternities showed up in large numbers and were some of the rowdiest fans of the day. The fans chanted and ranted throughout the entire game and gave the matchup a rivalry-game feeling. Penalties during the game added an extra edge, but Beta was able to hold a lead for the entire game and captured the victory, 14-7.
“The atmosphere made it feel like a championship game,” Garret Prather, Wichita senior, said. “It made it a lot of fun.”
The final game of the day was the Men’s Rec Competitive championship between Turn Ur Swag On and the Mooses. Three players in the game were trying for their second flag football championship of the day. Ellis; Blake Kramer, Seneca junior, and Jeff Slater, Lansing senior, all played for Dirty Nasty in Co-Rec league earlier in the day and came back to play for the Mooses of the Men’s Competitive league.
Kramer said that the Men’s Competitive championship was the game they had been looking forward to playing in, because of the high level of competition.
The game did not turn out quite as well as he had hoped though. Turn Ur Swag On was able to jump out to a quick lead and ride it until the end of the game with a final score of 13-6.
“We were pretty excited for the chance to get two wins inside Memorial Stadium,” Ellis said. “But we were more excited just to get to play there, and we were happy that we still got one shirt.”
— Edited by Nick Gerik
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