IM Basketball and Hockey Continue League Play

BasketballLast week saw the intramural basketball season come into full bloom, with over a dozen games taking place in Huntington Gym.America Yeah and Sigma Chi A continued their early dominance of League A by extending their records to 2-0 after victories last Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. America Yeah won by forfeit over Phi Kappa Tau while Sigma Chi A handedly defeated Beta Theta Pi (Beta) A.Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) pulled off the first upset in League A play this season with a gritty and hard-fought 48-46 victory over Staff Infection, improving its record to 1-1 and putting Staff Infection in an early season fourth-place tie with Beta A at 0-1.After topping League B after the first few days of play, Theta Chi fell to the Brothers on Wednesday, November 10, propelling the Brothers to an early first-place tie with Sigma Chi B at 1-0.Theta Chi sits in the middle of the League B pack at 1-1 after its loss, while idle Jewce is Loose and the Running Suckers sit just above an 0-2 Phi Delta Theta (Phi Delt) squad, in a fourth-place tie in the league.The Great Colgate Ballers are the headliners of League C at this point in the season after a 34-31 last-second defeat of the Butter Nuts last Tuesday. The squad sits at 2-0, with a half-game lead over the Yo Mets, a team that won its first game of the season over the Squadron of Doom.Beta B pulled off a close victory over Curtis to the tune of a 48-46, putting each team at 1-1 in the league. The Butter Nuts (0-1) and the Squadron of Doom (0-2) sit in the league cellar after two weeks of play.The early season favorites in League D, the KSA, continued its success with a blowout victory over Andy Levin on November 11. KSA sits at 2-0, with a half-game lead over a 1-0 Jason & The Johnsons squad that remained idle last week.Sigma Chi C avenged an early season forfeit by holding off a 34-6 second-half run by the Regulators to move to 1-1 on the season in the league. Main Moon, which still has not played a game, and the winless Regulators round out League D.

Ice HockeyThe last week in intramural ice hockey play saw little action in League A but plenty of early season shake-ups in League B.Theta Chi garnered its first win of the hockey season through a forfeit against Sigma Chi B, creating a three-way tie for second place between those two teams and Sigma Chi A, all with two points.In the only contest in the league last Thursday, The Whalers improved to 2-0 on the season with an 8-4 defeat of Delta Upsilon (DU). The Whalers own first place in League A with four points, while DU sits at the bottom of the league with Beta, Team 917 and DKE, all with zero points.As the preseason favorites in League B, the Panty Raiders were true to form on Sunday with a 6-1 defeat of the Pep Band. This win kept the Panty Raiders alone in first place win four points, while propelling the Pep Band to last with an 0-2 record.The Frozen Ovaries won their first game of the season on Sunday by way of a 6-2 defeat of the Yo Mets, putting themselves in second-place tie with their opponents at two points apiece. Phi Delt remained idle last weekend and maintained its spot in fourth place in the league with an 0-1 record.