Sports

Kicking to win

Junior Business Major Abraham Obregon tries to give Sophomore Karina Guardado advice on how to score while at half time during the the second game of the night on Wednesday, April 2. Futsal Intramural games started Tuesday, April 1, with four games that same night. The futsal season will last for three weeks with about four games a night, four days out of the week. After the final game, playoffs will start. Times for playoffs are yet to be announced, but the games will be the second to last week of April.

Drive for five

Sean Harrison, freshman, tries to avoid being photographed while Takahuru Tsugawa and Stephanie Estupinian react to the camera during the basketball tournament on Wednesday, March 26. The tournament includes youth from the community, academy and high school, as well as university students. In order to play each player must contribute $5 to play. The tournament will last approximately five days (about mid-April) and the winning team will receive $500.

Gym turns into hockey rink

Sophomore Dustin Serns of team Lightning runs, controlling the puck, while warming up for the second game of the double header on Thursday, Feb. 28. University Intramural Floor Hockey began its season on Thursday with two games. The first was between Corey Crabtree's Sharks and Blayne Milner's Flames. With Junior Nathan Thomason single-handedly putting them on the board with four points, Sharks defeated the Flames 7 - 0 to start the season.

Lakers, Vipers, Shock take championship

The Lakers are A-league champions.

The Lakers, A-League champions, pose for the camera after defeating the Rockets in a fourth quarter rundown 56 - 53 Sunday Feb. 24. The championship game was the third in a line of games for the University Intramural Championship Basketball. The Valley Vipers defeated the Mad Ants 48 - 31 in the B-League. In the women's game, the Shock took the victory over the Mercury 35 - 24. Next on the intramural schedule is Floor Hockey, starting Feb. 26. Click on full story link for video.

Let's roll!

Senior Radio-TV-Film student Miriam Delgado gears up to practice on Feb. 21 for the upcoming Intramural Floor Hockey season. Sign-ups will end on Monday, Feb. 25 and games will begin immediately the next day. The games will go through Spring Break and finish in the weeks after the break.

Intramurals basketball playoffs begin

Adeniyi Adeyemo and his teammates take a breather as his team Valley Vipers, went on to win.

SWAU intramural basketball playoffs began Tuesday, Feb. 19 when both the men and women’s teams competed to see who will play in the championship games. It was a process of elimination among the four A league teams, five B league teams, and the woman’s teams. In the A league the Lakers beat the Hawks 79 to 63 in the first game of the night. In the next A league game the Rockets won against team Magic with a score of 53 to 41. So on Sunday, Feb. 24, A league team Lakers will play the Rockets in the championship game.

Serns wins 8-ball tourney

Senior Jakob Serns smiles (well, sort of) while holding his prize cue after winning the Student Center's 8-Ball Tournament on Saturday, February 2. The tournament consisted of a bracket of 12 players that broke their first game at 8 p.m. finishing the championship game at 12:30 a.m.on February 3. The Student Center plans on hosting a foosball tournament on March 29.

SWAU Hoops Classic 2008

After half a week of intense basketball camaraderie, the annual University basketball invitational came to a close on Saturday Jan. 26. In Big 12 competition, the Collegedale Youth's Lady Cougars defeated the Andrews Lady Cardinals while the Hinsdale Lady Hurricanes took a one-point victory over the Bass Lady Eagles in the Small 12 division. The Greater Atlanta Knights took the victory over the Spencerville Hornets in Big 12 while on the 'B' court the VGAA Lions defeated the Hinsdale Hurricanes in Small 12 competition. See more photos and watch video highlights from Saturday night by clicking the read link below.

Basketball invitational tips off

James The, dean of mens' residence, reads tournament information to academy and home-school students for SWAU Hoops Classic Basketball Invitational Wednesday, Jan. 23. The tournament games began at 4:15 p.m. with Joshua taking on Jefferson Academy and Burton going against Collegedale in the Leiske-Pultar Gym. The tournament will go on throughout the remainder of the week. Championship games for both men and women will be played on Saturday, Jan. 26 starting at 9:45 p.m.

Rack it up!

Sophomore Computer Science Major Israel Mendez practices for the up-coming 8-Ball tournament on Saturday night, Feb. 2. Mendez said, "I'm not in this to lose; I'm in this to win." In the fall semester, Freddy Guzman took the 8-Ball tournament. So far, 10 players have signed up. The Student Center will also hold a Foosball Tournament in late March.