MSU Invitational 2010

Kevin "Champ" Hill - 42 - A
Zigmas "Zigmister" Maloni - 68 - A
Alana "Big Al" Beil - 44
Kieth "Phantom" Campion
Mick "MickJesus" Cielesz - 55 - X
Billy "The Kid" Fidanovski - 29
Spencer "Belushi" Flynn - 72
David "Spaceman" Holtzman - 33
AJ Khah - 7
Luke Mockaitis - 54 - G
Vince Petrella - 11
Brandon Polaskey - 2
Mario Romanelli - 85 - R
Becky "Seewomann" Seemann - 9
Kat Takeda - 4
Brian Van Meter - 91

I devote my event epilogue to our MVP of the weekend: Mick Cielesz - DePaul Dodgeball #55

Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit, he took the midnight train going anywhere.

Mick is from Rockford and our Secretary this year, plus he will most likely be next year's President. He was the only freshman we brought when we played at Nationals 2009 in Allendale.

Aside from hosting Brutalitopia on Radio.DePaul.edu, where you can find your metal fix on Sundays, he has been directly responsible for three major points won by DePaul in the past two years. One was a point against CMU at Nationals 2010, while the others were the two points against EMU this weekend. A great player overall, he often ends up being the last player at our regular dball nights.

When we got that first point, he just collapsed like a tennis player at Wimbledon. We all rushed the court and I remember someone saying, "back up and give him some air." To that I responded, "No, everyone touch him for good luck!"

The worst thing was he still had to play the next point since our only sub got taken out by a grossly unfair headshot in our BGSU game. I'm not sure if those two points were back to back, but he ended up being the last one again because he was sitting on the baseline resting. Then somebody named him MickJesus, and he received many acknowledgments from the other teams for his performance.

Anyway, our EMU match was really, really close and we hope these guys make it to the CDO, we'd love to see a rematch as they are a great team to play against.

After matches, the team had a family dinner at Hooter's before driving home. 900 pictures and 500 miles later, DePaul Dodgeball remains undefeated.