Fall 2010 Week 1 Recap

Super-Friends vs. Peter's Soldiers

The Fall 2010 season's opening match pitted last season's runner-up Super-Friends versus a newly formed team by the name of Peter's Soldiers. Super-Friends was more than ready for the start of the season. With most of their roster styling with matching headbands, wristbands and socks, you knew they were serious.

Peter's Soldiers, however, weren't fazed by that at all, rolling 9 deep for their first match of the season. The game started with an easy win for Super-Friends, which had some thinking it would be an easy victory for them, but Peter's Soldiers had other plans in mind. Both teams gave very little breathing room to the other. The match was tied 3-3 going into the half-time break.

With the start of the 2nd half, Peter's Soldiers came out attacking, being the first to win consecutive games in the match. With the games 5-3 in PET's favor Super-Friends captain, David Lau let his team know what was going wrong for them in the game in a vicious manner. But that was the spark their team needed. The Super-Friends played like their collective lives depended on it, as if each ball was loaded with C-4 and various forms of fatality-inducing shrapnel, winning the next 2 games and they snatched the match 6-5.

So, look out campers, after just one match both these teamslook like they're in mid-season's form. Words to the wise for other teams this season, WATCH OUT!

L.S.C. vs. Balls of Fury
With a name like L.S.C., which stands for Last Season's Champions, formerly known as the Sitting Ducks, you'd kind of get a feeling of just how big this team's collective heads got after winning it all last season. They're still celebrating in the streets of Duck-land because this team came into the gym still reeking of Chivas.

The Balls of Fury came into the game warmed up and ready to go. up against an L.S.C. with basically the same core roster. The Fury looked like they upgraded this season with longer, more athletic players presumably from the basketball league next door, for which team captain, Ren Hsieh, Commish of FBNYC should have no shortage. So, nothing like last season's band of misfits.

The game got rolling with L.S.C. winning the first 3 gms easily. Then, the Fury got away with one when new recruit Alex Shu was not called out despite stepping on the end line. He was able to take out the last LSC standing. The two teams split the next two, going into the half 4-2 L.S.C. Despite just a two game deficit, it appeared to everyone, even the Fury, that they were merely playing for pride. But the second half was a different story.

The Fury finally settled into the pace and rules, and even displayed a structured offensive attack as they came out blazing, winning 4 straight games to clinch the match. Even in the final game, which BoF just about gave to L.S.C., Maisie Wong, avoided three LSC strikers including last season's MVP Ynoel  Lopez, in the final minute to run out the clock. It was a lost game but also a message, they never got her down.

Make no mistake, this was the biggest upset in all of dodgeball history, PERIOD! Some L.S.C players blamed it on the Chivas, some on the lack of team work but in the end, the Balls of Fury just outplayed the Champs. This is going to be one crazy season. Stay tuned for this week's schedule and weekly rankings.