Team Moxie Spotlight, Edition 1

This week is the first week of playoffs for most of the fall intramural sports. As a reoccurring story I decided to follow Team Moxie, primarily second year students with lots of nicknames, through their post-season journey. Team Moxie took to the field today in an effort to keep their championship dreams alive. They did so while easily diminishing Dwight Shrute’s chances of becoming intramural league champions, defeating them 17-4. Taylor “Killer” LaPierre of Team Moxie lead the team with 7 touchdown passes. After the game LaPierre commented on the game, he stated, “Practice equals success, they (Dwight Shrute) needed practice”. LaPierre went on to say that victory is guaranteed in the second round of the playoffs.
On a more positive note, new recruit Jacqueline “Butter” Ducharme caught her first touchdown pass in the second half of the game. The pass was thrown from long time boyfriend Greg “Grease” Pease. Team Moxie faces their next opponent on Wednesday October 1.

Women's Volleyball vs. Husson

This past Friday the Maine Women’s Volleyball team defeated Husson College in three straight sets. The set scores for the game were 25-10, 25-10 and 25-6. The Maine team came out with a high level of intensity that lasted throughout the game. The shorter Husson team had a hard time blocking the taller faster Maine attack, which Lindsay Allman led with eight kills of her own.
The Maine offense ran smoothly with sophomore setter Paige Tortorello directing the traffic. Tortorello racked up 32 assists in the three games and was also able to score 7 points of her own on aces. Maine hopes to continue its success this Friday, Oct. 3rd in New York against Albany. For more information on the game please visit http://goblackbears.cstv.com/sports/w-volley/recaps/092608aaa.html


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My Beat

The beat that I chose to write my blog entries on is sports. I figured that a lot of people would do sports and you can only read so much about a football so I decided to do smaller scale sports such as club and intramural sports. I also decided that it would be nice if I added in some upcoming events at the campus recreation center, and other athletic activities happening around campus. I also would like to include some stories about varsity women’s volleyball as I am a volleyball player myself and have worked at games. Being involved in intramural sports I have also made connections with a lot of other intramural athletes and officials.
Since I have to write one entry everyday I realize that I might have to branch out from just Umaine sports and maybe comment on sports nationwide. All in all I am very excited to get this blog underway.