Forces of Evil defeat Five Cardinal Virtues in first-round
By BRIAN BURKE
Sports Writer
The sights and sounds of early round Bookstore Basketball — crazy outfits, errant passes, numerous air-balls, scores of 21-2 — were all present Wednesday as the next group of teams took to the Stepan courts for their opening round games.
Five Cardinal Virtues (formerly Five Deadly Sins) came equipped with plenty of toys for their battle with Forces of Evil, but in the end, evil prevailed by a score of 21-9. Five Cardinal Virtues, (love, faith, fortitude, justice and charity) comprised of Mike Bradt, J.P. Montufar, Andrew McDonnell, Matt Quirion and Jim Fleming showed up dressed as Cupid, a minister, Superman, a police officer and what appeared to be another type of minister or priest.
They certainly played hard, although it at times did not look like basketball. Cupid spent a good portion of the game shooting his arrows at the opposing team and hugging them after they scored, while the policeman kept busy brandishing his nightstick and writing up tickets for littering spectators.
"One of those girls over there, I want her to fall in love with one of the members of the other team," Bradt said. "And in that way, it'll be four on five, because they'll probably go off and do some lovey-duvy stuff, and then we'd have a chance with four on five."
Meanwhile, Charity would give up the ball to whoever was closest, Faith always shot with his eyes closed and Fortitude always let a pass hit him in the chest.
"The Lord God guided me 100 percent; I was 9 for 9," Montufar said. "I didn't even look back. Moses got kicked out of the promised land for looking back, so I just trusted the Lord, all my baskets went in, it was 21-17, we had a good showing."
Forces of Evil, which featured five men who insisted they were Dr. Klaw, Shredder, Skeletor, Gargamel and Destro, went for alley-oops much of the game and did manage to throw a few down in the winning effort.
"We would like to thank Satan today, his dark bounty led us well, and we'd like to see more dunks out of Shredder, " "Dr. Klaw" said. "We settled the age-old debate of evil over virtue today."
In only a slightly more competitive contest You Will Beat Us delivered as promised as they fell 21-12 to Hardcore Strokers, a team made up of St. Mary's basketball players. The five- man squad of Toby Biebl, Travis Deschamps, Tom Haight, Joe Essner and Jim Ryan, grabbed plenty of rebounds, but also found creative ways to miss three-footers.
Hardcore Strokers, comprised of Anne Blair, Elizabeth Linkous, Kristen Matha, Shaun Russell and Charlotte Albrecht came decked out in numbered jersey's and brought a full crew including water girls, trainers and strength trainers. On the court, they used some nice passing and a good transition game to overcome the seemingly overmatched men.
"We feel kind of disappointed. We tried; we just ran out of gas. They were the better team; that's what happens." Ryan said. "Basically we knew we were gonna lose, the question was how close of a game we were gonna get it to. The spread was six; we didn't cover it, so we're a little disappointed on that."
"We came in and we were like, `OK, we're playing guys,' so we didn't know if we'd win," Linkous said. "But then we heard about the competition and we played OK."
Note:
uThe ESPN Sportscenter segment featuring Coach Matt Doherty's Bookstore game, previously scheduled for April 15 has been moved to Saturday, April 22 at 9:30 p.m..
All Sports Stories for Thursday, April 13, 2000
