WIU Round Robin 2010

Kevin "Champ" Hill - 42 - A
Zigmas "Big Papa Z" Maloni - 68 - A
Alana Beil - 44
AJ Khah - 7
Billy "The Kid" Fidanovski - 27
Brian Van Meter - 91
Corey "Burn it" Burnett - 23
David "Spaceman" Holtzman - 33
Ian Gonzalez Muentener - 88
Luke Mockaitis - 54 - G
Mario Romanelli - 85 - R
Troy "Big Dix" Dixon - 25
Vince Petrella - 11

This week was a monster. We got shirts done in time for the people attending the trip, got the waivers in for the people traveling, and managed to find another car and driver after our original driver broke his collar bone in a non-dodgeball related activity.

Kevin Hill's car suffered a blown out tire just 45 minutes into the trip, and had to wait more than two hours for a new tire to be installed. In the mean time, 8 members of the team continued onto Western. By this time, Western and the rest of the teams had already started playing.

Arriving an hour late, DePaul is forced to play three matches in a row, with only 8 people for the first match. Fortunately, UWP was awesome and really fun to play since they had only brought 11 people. By our second half with Western Kentucky, reinforcements show up from Kevin Hill's car, and we continue to have a really fun game. Trick shots, gladiator dodgeball, and pulling an Iron Curtain keeps everyone happy.  DePaul definitely had the most fun out of anybody in Macomb.

For the later half of our match with WIU, a team that placed 4th in Nationals last year, some of the younger players started getting a little frustrated with how serious WIU was taking the game. I think this might have been part the team being tired from traveling for 5 hours and then playing three straight hours, and part the majority of WIU taking dodgeball against DePaul way to serious. Some of the dudes were cool, we'll grant 'em that.

After matches, the team has a quick family dinner at Wendy's before driving home under a full moon. 500 pictures and 500 miles later, DePaul Dodgeball remains undefeated.