Intramural Basketball Game #1 Recap

Woman Scorned Basketball Game 1

You could feel the excitement of the Woman Scorned basketball ladies as you entered the Rec on Sunday night. Many of the Frisbee vets were rocking their Woman Scorned jerseys, but the refs made us all wear the gross nasty red IM ones.

After being told multiple times to take off jewelry (which some people did & some people didn’t) we started the game.

The game was very entertaining to say the least, it was very evident that we didn’t have a lot of basketball experience, but Hoistad, Bosco, and rookie Nikki carried the team with their high school basketball skillz.

I would say that our biggest strength in the game was our defense up top, specifically our full court press. Cassie and Bosco worked really well together forcing the other team’s point guard to one side and then double teaming them to try and get the ball. Sarah Pesch used her ultimate knowledge to read where the ball was going to go, and made several hand blocks that she ended up hitting out of bounds, beneficial in ultimate, but not basketball.

Another strength that we had as a team was our ability to fake. Although they were more Frisbee fakes, with pivoting and going side to side, I think it really did influence and weird-out the defense.

One of the most exciting things about the game was the sideline talk. I am sure that the other team thought we were crazy.

With a lot of ultimate experience and very little basketball experience, there was a lot of comparing to Frisbee. Comments heard on the sideline included:

“You can pick in basketball??” “Yea I heard jazz say that once”

“Run a vert stack!”

“That was a handler cut”

Up calls

“Get it girl!”

“Now I remember why I play Frisbee, I hate refs”

Along with certain Frisbee cheers, the sideline was definitely the place to be during the game. They were very influential in the decisions made on the court, most notoriously making people shoot. There were many air balls shot because of sideline suggestion.

In the second half certain players were getting very frustrated with the refs, and Bosco was given a warning for swearing after a girl hit her in the face. Also, Hoistad was ejected from the game for not taking out her earring, which none of us could figure out how to do before the game.

Over all it was a positive first game for the intramural team. We for sure have some things to work on, but I would say that there is still potential for winning a Championship shirt.