Flag football players prepare for playoffs

Kyle Kimura, Overland Park junior, looks to pass in an intramural flag football game on Monday. The championship game is to be played at Memorial Stadium this year.

By Patrick Eland

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Kansas intramural flag football players will finish their season with something that Mark Mangino’s student athletes won’t — playoffs.

The flag football playoff brackets were set in a team captains meeting Wednesday. Captains from the 115 teams in five leagues met with intramurals coordinator Matt Beck, who went over the structure of the playoffs and selected seeds for the brackets. Beck said that the teams were seeded based on the records from their three regular season games. Because many teams had the same records, Beck also factored in sportsmanship ratings, which are points subtracted by referees for fouls and penalties during games.

Each league is separated into its own bracket for the playoffs. The games will be played in a single-elimination format and will end with the league championships at Memorial Stadium on a date to be determined.

Wichita junior James Kellerman said the format of the playoffs made the atmosphere more competitive than the regular season.

“It’s a lot more fun,” Kellerman said. “The intensity is a lot higher and everybody takes it a lot more seriously.”

Intramural playoffs also hold a special significance for fraternities and sororities, which compete for points toward a greek championship.

“It’s about bragging rights,” Salina junior Alex Krajicek said. “The whole house gets into it during the playoffs.”

No matter how his season ends, Krajicek said he thought one of the biggest rewards would be the opportunity to play on Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium.

“You dream about that kind of thing as a kid,” Krajicek said.

— Edited by Nick Gerik

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