Dead Kennedys pound World Class Fishermen
By MIKE CONNOLLY
Senior Staff Writer
Five skilled anglers could not overcome the political power and basketball skills of a family from Massachusetts as Dead Kennedys beat World Class Fishermen, Master Baiters 21-11 on the first day of Bookstore Basketball XXXI on Stepan Courts.
The Dead Kennedys, made up of four law students and an engineering graduate student, controlled the game from start to finish. They jumped out to an early 8-2 lead on the World Class Fishermen, a team made up of an Alumni Hall RA and four students from his section.
"We actually expected to play better. We made it to the round of 64 last year," said Dead Kennedys' Eric Nadell.
World Class Fishermen were the only teams wearing any sort of costume on Thursday. Each player had his face painted and one wore former Celtic Larry Bird's uniform.
"We had to wear this to class today," sophomore Justin Golbabai said. "We had class until 4:45 so we didn't have time to change. We were hoping to win by intimidation since we weren't going to win by skill."
Only three other games were played Thursday, as most of the games were rescheduled.
In the closest game of the afternoon, the all-freshmen team Bly and the Family Stone defeated Off: The Team You Beat In The Shower But Not On The Court, 24 -22.
Off built a 20-18 lead late in the game but could not get the winning basket to fall as Bly battled back to tie the game and send it into overtime. Paul Sifuentes scored the last three baskets for Bly to take a 23-22 lead before David Goett hit a shot in the lane to win the game.
Sifuentes said he was happy to have faced such a tough opponent in the opening round.
"I am glad we got that hard game out of the way," Sifuentes said. "We don't want to think these early games will be easy."
Off's fans from Zahm got into the heads of Bly throughout the game with taunting and jeering. At times they even elicited full sentence replies from Bly's players.
"A lot of the guys let them get into their heads but this is Bookstore and you have to be able to ignore that," Sifuentes said.
Yup, It's The Lug Nut: Fixed It won bragging rights in its Alumni dorm section by defeating Tenacious STD 21-15. The all-sophomore Lug Nut squad controlled the game early and built a 6-1 lead. The junior and seniors on STD got as close as 18-15 late in the game but never took the lead.
"When we found out we were playing each other we started joking around a lot," Lug Nut's Tom Kerestes said. "It was pretty serious out there on the court today but hopefully it will go back to just being joking around again."
The all-female Booty Call team defeated another all-female team, Maybe If U Beg, 21-12 in the last game of the afternoon.
Booty Call scored the first seven points of the game and never looked back.
"We haven't even practiced together before today," Booty Call's Brigid McHugh said. "But we are going to the Elite Eight, and then we will probably lose."
First and preliminary round Bookstore action continues today from 4-7 p.m. with games on Lyons Courts and Stepan Courts.
All Sports Stories for Friday, April 12, 2002
