University Recreation intramurals completed three 11-a-side soccer leagues this week with men’s, women’s and co-rec league champions crowned at the Sports and Adventure Complex.Saber Tooth Ducks defeated BCM, 2-0, to win the championship in the co-rec division.Whatchuknowaboutit beat Niupy FC, 2-0, to claim the Men’s A soccer championship.Delta Gamma held off Kappa Kappa Gamma, 3-2, to win the women’s league.Fraternity soccer was postponed until next week, said Matt Boyer, assistant director of leagues and tournaments.Next week marks the start of Homecoming events. Registration ends today.The UREC 3-on-3 flag football Grid Iron Challenge, dodgeball and sand volleyball tournament events begin Monday and cost $10 to register. Boyer said there is no registration fee for the punt-pass-and-kick competition.”Instead of just typical league play during the week, we threw a few more events in here to help get people out on campus … and celebrate LSU,” Boyer said.The Grid Iron Challenge winner receives the opportunity to travel to Atlanta and compete against teams from other Southeastern Conference schools in addition to receiving tickets to the SEC championship game.”[There is] a little bit more school pride there — win this, and you go to Atlanta,” Boyer said.Interested students can be male or female and must be registered full-time to participate, Boyer said.Intramural sand volleyball playoffs began this week.In the co-rec “A” division, Unknown, Sets on the Beach, Dirty Sets, Persepolis and Team Awesome advanced to the quarterfinal round.In the co-rec “B” division, Sigma Gamma, Set to Kill and MBA Ballers advanced to the quarterfinals.Boyer said intramural sports are not guaranteed the scheduled four games.UREC set aside five days in the schedule for rescheduled games to be played if necessary. All five were used up because of weather delays, Boyer said.”There may be times we can’t get all four games in,” he said. “We do our best to get games in — try to reschedule them — but we don’t guarantee four.”In co-rec flag football, Chi Alpha, Super Phun Thyme, BCM Monsters, Jackson 4 and Back That Pass Up all went undefeated (3-0) in their respective divisions.Crossfire stands atop the women’s league with an unblemished 2-0 record.In the men’s league, 16 teams claimed at least a share of their division title with a perfect 3-0 record.Boyer said the regular season will be completed this week with more than 100 makeup games played, and playoffs are scheduled to begin Sunday.”We are doing our best to accommodate teams,” he said. “When teams get rescheduled, we don’t honor any requests.”Boyer said all requests would also have to be fulfilled if one request was honored.”This week there are no open spots — everything is full,” he said. “We just can’t change anything.”Spring sport registration for basketball and soccer begins Dec. 7 and ends Jan. 20.Boyer said registration is earlier this year because of the semester beginning after the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.”It’s a quick turnaround, but we’re trying to get the word out early this semester,” Boyer said.—-Contact Jonathan Schexnayder at [email protected]
UREC: Soccer teams finish up playoffs
November 4, 2009