Campus Recreation kicked off the intramural softball and co-rec soccer season Monday on the Intramural fields. "We will have more than 30 teams playing soccer and more than 150 teams competing in softball at various levels, such as sorority, fraternity, men's, women's and co-rec," said Nicholas Head, Campus Rec student coordinator. For co-rec soccer, the Honors College beat Mean Green 5-4 Tuesday in a penalty kick shoot out.
"It was awesome to win, especially considering we've never met our team before," said Leslie Sapp, sophomore in nursing. "We hadn't had a practice or anything." Sapp played goalie for the first time Tuesday and said she had fun once she got past the fear. "It was really intimidating" Sapp said. "I feel like I missed an easy one, but I did stop one." Mean Green, who got their name from their team color, also had a novice goalie on the field. Goalie Brittany Loper, graduate student in education, said, even though they lost, she had a lot of fun hanging out with her friends.
"It was pretty intimidating and I guess it's harder to play against guys," Loper said. Honors College only had six players so Mean Green played down two. "We played with six team members instead of eight because they only had six," Loper said. "I guess we could have played with eight but we played with six to be nice." Over on the softball fields, several teams simultaneously played on the eight fields, despite the technical problems with many of the lights not working.
"Like any sport there will be teams that are as competitive as they can be, but softball season is relatively laid back when compared to other sports," Head said. The Mudcats mercy-ruled Booze on First 14-4 during the fifth inning Tuesday. "Tonight's performance was pretty stealthy, we made a few errors and didn't hit too well, but we scored runs," said Becker Denton, junior in agricultural economics. "We have a lot to build on and we laid a good foundation for the rest of the season." Although both teams hit its share of foul balls, the Mudcats were able to score 14 runs. Because the Intramural Fields don't have fences, Head said there aren't any homeruns and the ball is always live unless it makes it to the street, then it is dead.
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