The 2009 fall intramural season has gotten off to a slow start because of rainy weather.”The weather has not been too friendly for us as of late,” said Associate Director of Recreational Services Melissa Longino. “We’ve only been able to have one night of our intramural soccer league.”Longino said soccer, the biggest intramural sport going on right now, has canceled three nights of games because of weather since the start of the season Sept. 2.In the men’s open soccer division that plays on Mondays, Malostranska beat MBA Ballers, 4-1. Channel 4 News Team beat Hot Sauce, 5-0.Grizzly Adams Beard beat The Unnaturals 2-1, while Team Pup ‘n’ Suds beat G-Squad, 7-0.In the Monday 8:30 p.m. fraternity division, Kappa Sigma beat Sigma Phi Epsilon “B” 5-0 and SAE beat Sigma Phi Episilon “C” 5-0.The Free Agents beat the Blue Ballers, 5-0, and Motor Boaters beat Pi Kappa Phi, 5-0, in the Wednesday open division.The 6:30 p.m. Wednesday fraternity division has also only played one game each. Sigma Chi beat DKE, 2-0, while Sigma Phi Epsilon “A” beat Pike, 4-0.The 9:30 p.m. Wednesday division men’s soccer teams are the only ones to play more than one game. Kappa Alpha leads 2-0, followed by Acacia at 1-1, and then Delta Chi and Phi Delta Theta at 0-1.The Sunday open divisions have had the worst luck and have not played yet because of the weather.In women’s soccer, the Sunday division has not played yet. The Wednesday division is led by Chi Omega at 2-0. Katie’s team and Delta Delta Delta are 1-1, and Kappa Delta is 0-2.The coed soccer teams have also experienced rain problems. The Monday and Wednesday divisions have played one game each. The Sunday divisions haven’t played yet.The coed Sunday division’s first games are expected to be played Sept. 20, according to University Recreation’s Web site.Other intramural sports going on right now are 3-on-3 basketball, team racquetball, singles table tennis and singles tennis.Registration for flag football and sand volleyball begins Sept. 28, and both seasons begin Oct. 11. Available leagues are men, women and coed, with open, Greek, faculty/staff and residential life divisions available. For sand volleyball, teams can be formed with as few as three players or as many as 20.Club sports are also underway. The men’s rugby team held a fall training camp in August. Its first game is against ULL on Sept. 26 at LSU.—-Contact Katherine Terrell at [email protected]
UREC: Weather hinders intramurals
September 16, 2009