Commish Corner – Winter Season Week 1
Top News and Questions
- Would the RimRockers suffer a post-championship hangover?YES!
- Could the Islanders win a game in their doubleheader? NO!
- Could the Mantua continue their winning ways?YES!
- Would the Wolves march on?YES!
Fancam!
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Men’s Game of the Week – Squires vs. StrongArms (A League)
The Squires are one of the original Legends teams. This was back in the day when there was only one men’s league and players such as Ron Cortese, Dick Beville and Lamont McKenzie were much younger. Rumor has it, some of them even had hair back then. Running together for the first time in years, the Squires started off slowly and were down by close to 20 at one point. However, they made a valiant comeback and escaped with a 36 to 34 win against the Fall Season runner-up StrongArms, no less! Hallenback had 12 and Newsome had 9 for the Squires. The StrongArms were led by Kissling who had 12 and McCleary who finished with 7.
Ladies Game of the Week – B Team vs. Angels
A new team, “B Team” took on the Angels in the first ladies game of the season. After taking a couple of seasons off, Adams made her return to spark the team with 14 points and led B Team to a 42 to 38 victory. Armstrong chipped in with 10 and Stensrud added 8. The Angels were led by Barkalow who had 18 and Prange and Huley who added 10 each.
Legend of the Week – Moniello (Borg)
New team the Borg has a bonified superstar in Moniello. Moniello went off for 31 points in the Borg’s 63 to 48 victory over the Thangs. Included in the 31 points were at least 6 three pointers. Memo to the rest of the B league – get a body on this guy! As they said in Karate Kid, Sweep the leg!
Moniello!
Other Stars in No Particular Order:
1)L. Hay(Ninja) –A new team in the Elite League, the Ninja drew a tough opening game matchup against the defending champions RimRockers. Well, it was tough for the RimRockers who got smoked 62 to 37 as Hay led the way with 20.
Coach Hay pushes tempo and helps crush defending champ RimRockers!
2)Silkowitz (Mantua) – Silkowitz powered the Mantua to a 76 to 54 victory over the Killers with 20 points…did someone say Elite?!
3)Pitts (Thangs) –Pitts kept the Thangs in the game against the Borg as he led the way with 28 points.
4)Sethi (Islanders) – Sethi only showed up for one of his team’s two games, however, he made it count scoring 23 and keeping the Islanders in the game against the Zephyrs. The Islanders fell though 47 to 33.
Ladies Legend of the Week – Adams (Team B)
See above. Adams showed little rust in her return to Legends action.
Christi surveys the opposition.
Other Stars in No Particular Order:
1)Nicole Kiffe (Grippers) – In the Grippers 17 point win over the Goddesses, Kiffe led the way with 16.
2)Denise Stubbs (Lightning) – Stubbs scored 20 points and was on fire from three point land in leading the Lightning to a 20 point win over the Phantoms.
3)Sarah Hardenbergh (Wolves) – Yawn. Another ho hum game for Hardenbergh who led the Wolves to a 14 point win over the Thunder with 20 points…now she has to do the books and clock for next week!
Highlights
Heat / With 21 points from Twyman and 14 from Cirillo, the Heat easily defeated CACI Commonwealth 48 to 33.CACICommonwealth / Pruett led the way for CACICommonwealth(one of the new corporate-sponsored teams from CACI) with 10 points.
Wildcats / The Wildcats took care of CACI 1 49 to 34 as Greene scored 15 and Rovinsky and Kakar each had 9.
CACI 1 / A mysterious man with a mask on his face scored 9 points. He had a # 21 on his jersey though.
CACI Josh Hankins shows off stylish unis, but the rust was there for game 1 of their CACI debut in Legends!
LittleLeaguers / Thanks to 15 from Crowder and 9 from Stanos the LittleLeaguers defeated the Money 45 to 42.
Money / Bechtle had 16 and Gulick had 10 in the loss.
Ninja / See above. Jones chipped in with 12 in the win.
RimRockers / Maynard had 15 and Posey had 11 in the loss. Robinson showed up physically but mentally was drinking spiked eggnog at home.
Elders / The Elders destroyed the Jackals 37 to 19 as superstar Rice (first game back since injury) scored 13 and Carter added 11.
Jackals / Goff led the way with 6 points for the Jackals.
Mantua / See above. Hawley had a nice game as well with 16 points.
Killers / Hunter had 15 and Champion added 11 in defeat.
Squires / See above.
StrongArms / See above.
Showtime / With Al Torres scoring 15 and Hendricks adding 12, the Showtime disposed of the Savages 46 to 40.
Savages / Maynard had half his team’s points with 20 for the Savages.
Xmen / The Xmen annihilated the GreyThunder 64 to 47 as Kent Julien scored 22, Drew had 15 and in a rare offensive outburst, Dunfee had 10! Why are these guys in “A”?!
GreyThunder / Jenkins had 18 and Hawkins had 13 in the loss.
Hoosiers / With some new blood, the Hoosiers defeated the Comanche 39 to 35 as Brandmark scored 17.
Comanche / Hathaway scored 12 and Beerman added 9 for the Comanche.
Borg / See above. The Borg would have scored many more points if they hadn’t spent half the game arguing with the scorekeeper on what the score should be. Memo to league teams, if you have a problem with the score, come and tell us during a break or at half. While we don’t profess to be brilliant, we can add. Future incidents will result in being called out in the Commish Corner each week in shame. BY NAME.
Thangs / See above. Goodson had a nice game as well with 8 points.
Khanmen / Thanks to 19 from Miller who exploited his huge size difference, 14 from Fox and a stunning 11 from Khan the Khanmen defeated the Terminators 66 to 35.
Terminators / Gefell and Farkas led the way with 13 and 8 respectively.
HoundDogs / Boneta led the way with 14 as the HoundDogs defeated the Islanders 46 to 34. Kennedy chipped in with 10 as well.
Islanders / The Havolvickless Islanders were led by Kauffman’s 12 and Reinert’s 10.
Zephyrs / Beeman had 13 in the Zephyrs in the Zephyrs 47 to 33 victory over the weary Islanders.
Islanders / See above.
Team B (women’s league) / See above.
Angels (women’s league) / See above.
Grippers (women’s league) / See above. McIntosh and Gripka had 11 and 10 respectively in the 47 to 30 win.
Goddesses (women’s league) / Powlovich led the way with 12 in the defeat.
Lightning (women’s league) / See above. In the 45 to 25 victory, Pictroski had 9 and managed not to get into foul trouble.
Phantoms (women’s league) / Hopkins had 11 to pace the Phantoms while Henry added 8.
Wolves (women’s league) / See above. Taryn Sullivan and Mallory Carrico had nice games as well with 13 and 10 respectively.
Thunder (women’s league) / Smith had 14 and Stile had 13 in the 59 to 45 loss.
Story by Mr. Thang
Pictures courtesy “The Commish”