Yes, another intramurals article

Welcome to this week's Intramural Update. It was a busy week in intramurals with lots of soccer and basketball action. Here are the scores:

In the freshman soccer league, the regular season is all completed. The Mad Cows stayed undefeated with a 6-0-1 record, one game ahead of the 6-1 Dirties. These two teams will get a bye through the first round of the playoffs, which was held on Tuesday, and will play during the second round next week.

The Gangstars and Felons both finished at 5-2 and Uphill 1 and Haskell/Jeff rounded out the over-.500 teams with 4-3 records. South 1 and the Invasion both cruised to .500 records. Tilton 3 managed a 2-4-2 record with South 2, the Munchies, and Tilton 1 also both managing only two wins. Haskell/Maria managed only one win and the Titans led the league in ties with three but finished last in wins with zero.

In the freshman volleyball league, the team from Hill captured the first seed in the playoffs with a 7-0 record. Close on their heels was South 2, with a 6-1 record, and South 3 at 4-2. Tilton 1, the Titans and the Tramps were four, five, and six in the league, and the Wildcats, Raskells, and South 1 were the bottom three in the league. The Freshman volleyball playoffs will begin on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 7:00 p.m. with the #8 vs. #9 play-in game. At 8:00 p.m., Hill will play the winner of that game while the four and five, two and seven, and three and six teams will do battle.

In regular soccer action on Thursday, Psycho whipped the Sugar Daddies 6-0, and I-House nipped the Larry Birdmelts 3-2. I-House currently stands in first place in the league while the Larry Birdmelts drop to 2-2. DTD collected a forfeit and the Rabid Wombats took a 3-2 decision over Simon from England. Indy 1defeated the Juice 7-4 moving their record to 2-2 and dropping the Juice to 0-5. In Monday's action, A Tribe Called West defeated Los Pieds Radicales 4-1 in a game between two previously winless teams. The Screaming Butterflies also lost to Tappa Kegga by one goal in a game that the Butterflies referred to as a "controversial defeat."

In Monday night basketball, co-ed division the Big Guns defeated The Troops to advance their record to 4-2 and drop the Troops to 2-4. Nemotada collected a forfeit against DTD to maintain their unbeaten record and hang onto their first place tie with the Joel Aranson Project. Fletcher 2 nipped the Fatalists 60-41 to drop the Fatalists to 1-5 and improve their record to 4-2. Fletcher 1 also won, beating the E-men by 10, 37-27. That win moved Fletcher 1 to 4-2.

In co-ed Thursday basketball, the Hanging Chickens defeated the Rennies 52-40 to improve their record to 4-1. The Hanging Chickens are now in second place in the co-ed league. The Hooligans upset the first-place Joel Aranson Project 51-40 to move their own record to 2-3 and drop the Joel Aranson Project to 5-1. Special Sauce defeated AePi 48-39 in a game that moved both teams to .500 records at 3-3. In the women's league, The Staff whipped Balla Status 53-42.

In regular volleyball action last Wednesday, HNRC defeated Indy in two games to improve to 4-1. The Hornets dropped the Killer Beans 2-0 in their game, handing the Beans their first loss of the season. The Isotopes also won, defeating John Stolle 2-0. There are now four teams tied for first in the volleyball league with identical 4-1 records.

Well its an exciting time to be an intramural fan at Tufts what with the playoffs for the freshman coming up. Tune in next week for all the scores. Everybody have a good one.