April 2009
Volume V Issue VI
This season the basketball
intramurals are very competitive
and bring a lot of excitement to
Mont Alto’s campus. There are
eight different teams and all of the
teams have their own basketball
styles. The eight teams include
The Underdogs, Team Shut Down,
Ballaholics, Cleveland Steamers,
Gruesome Seven, MA Ballers,
Euro Flava, and The Engineers.
Each team has a lot to say about
their own skills and ‘their oppo-
nents. Team players seem very
eager to express their opinion
about the other teams that they
intend on beating.
These eight teams are very ex-
cited to play because they get a
chance to play a game they enjoy
in front of the student body. After
talking with the teams they ex-
pressed their feelings on their ad-
versaries. Each team that I spoke
to agreed that team Engineers
were the worst team on the court.
Even though they were dubbed the
worst team on the court they did
give the Cleveland Steamers a run
for their money when they took
them into double overtime. The
Engineers still lost that game, but
only by two points.
The MA Ballers, Ballaholics,
and the Gruesome Seven agree
that that they will give each other
the best competition. When asked
what team will give you the big-
gest competition the Gruesome
Seven said “MA Ballers and
maybe the Ballaholics but every
other teams that we are going to
wash out.” These three teams
seemed to have formed a rivalry
Submitted by Alex Hagans
with each other on which they all
will come in either first, second, or
third place and first place claims
bragging rights. Even though
these teams were seen as top com-
petitors they all have seemed to
underestimate team Underdogs.
more than fitting, is the only team
so far that has a matching record
of the Gruesome Seven whom is
currently undefeated. The Under-
dogs are slowly but surely making
their name known as they continue
beating out their competition.
Team Shut Down whose team
has kept quiet for the most part
beat the MA Ballers but were
called out by team Euro Flava for
talking too much trash. Team
Euro Flava demonstrated having
the most confidence at the begin-
ning of the intramural season
when they responded to being
asked what team will be the big-
gest threat to them by saying “our
own team, if we lose then it’s our
own fault, no one can beat us.”
The team was then asked what is
their biggest faulty and they ad-
mitted it was their arrogance.
Overall, all the teams are
showing good sportsmanship and
the “trash talk” is in good fun.
These teams are playing with the
teams that they personally created
to match up against other person-
ally created teams. All of the
teams encourage students to come
out and support the basketball
intramurals on Tuesdays and
Thursdays in the MAC building.
Inside a
Player’s Mind
By Khulud Khudur:
Staff Writer
The heat. The sweat dripping
off your face. Energy. Power.
Endless efforts. You think
you're about to fall out and
hit the shinny floor, but you
have to keep on going be-
cause if you did not, your
team would suffer. You hear
the sound combined together
that produced nothing. Then
you turn around and look
down; you hear your heart
beating, bang bang, and then
your conscience tells you
you're thirsty and about to
lose it, but you fight with
yourself. You hear yourself
(which is yours again is
yours again) yelling back,
and then the loud object that
fills your hand bangs to the
floor and then back up again.
Your eyes bleed with tired-
ness. The light is yet another
burden to your eyes; you feel
it heavy and almost as if a
brick is to fall in them, mixed
with salt and lemon. The
mysterious and weird. Your
flesh can’t take it any longer.
It is pouring with pain yet
again hope.