Sp16 W5: Dubs, Tricks, Record 100s

The WW Club was cramped on W5 Sunday, and one of the VIPs was a surprise. BBQ put two wins together for the first time all season, and on the same day! First they took down The Chosen Ones, 15 to 13, and then they survived against WLHS despite a dropped pull at universe point. Whew. Dance all night BBQ, and say hey to The Rejects!

Up at Inwood, Reject Anna Meyendorff noted that Mom and Dad (Maggie and Mateo) weren’t around, and so Meyendorff insisted The Rejects party all over the MTA, 15 to 10. When Dad showed up for the second game vs. JAWS, a “don’t tell Mom policy” was put in place and The Rejects filleted the shark, 15 to 4.

On Tuesday, after surveying the weather all day, BBQ met The Rejects to see who could get the triple W. Captain DQ was injured and his BBQ had only a savage 4:3 line showing. Captain Mateo, in his relentless pursuit of a guaranteed winning record, played 5:2. BBQ’s Jan Vanous had some pinpoint hucks, but ultimately couldn’t beat the Reject zone. DQ reminded The Latest that he had claimed at the draft: “The only thing that will beat us this season will be attendance.“ Classic deflection. BBQ lost 14 to 5.

The game was actually The Rejects’ eighth win in a row, and it gave the team Sp16’s first league trick. More importantly, it was Phil Vlahakis’s 100th win in this league. The new Centurion took 182 games to get gold, and The Rejects is Phil’s 12th team. He got 80 of his 100 with his current captain, and won two of the four finals he’s been to in the same company. Can they go all the way this season? They’re in first place by a mile.

JAWS took a huge bite out of The Chosen Ones on Wednesday, winning 15 to 6. The win officially prevented JAWS from suffering the worst differential ever. Reynaldo and the Clouds can hang on to that for a while longer. Meanwhile, Chosen is in a tailspin. Wednesday was their fourth loss in a row. Their only win in the last seven games was at universe point. Co-captain Karina should be held responsible. Her other half is stuck mourning his lost baggage. Get it going girl.

Thursday was big time. MTA and WLHS played the third game of their five-game weekday series in which WLHS is up 2-0. MTA got one back in the series, winning the game 15 to 11. According to Captain Travis, “Steve Carpenter had a nice huck to Ryan Drost, finally finding a cutter he can’t overthrow. Carpenter also had a poach layout D on our goal line right after I told him not to poach. Other than that, it was a boring spectator game as the MTA went into local-stops mode due to zone construction by wooloohooshoo. There were some attempts to bypass stations and go express, but those just resulted in more train delays. So we stuck to the semi-ironically named Fast Track plan and worked our way to our final stop of 15th St., leaving WLHS behind at 11th St., stuck in signal malfunctions.” One thing spectators saw was LooLoo co-captain Sakon skying Isaac Saul on D and then catching his co-captain Emily Grad’s huck over Saul in the loss.

Another thing the spectators witnessed was Steve Carpenter’s stunning awakening as a Centurion. The big guy now holds the title of fastest to 100 wins. He got there in his 10th season, which is the fewest ever. And it took him only 148 games (the previous record was 155 by Carolyn Louth). Carpenter has been to the finals three times and won twice. He hasn’t been back since that last win in Sp13 with The Funeral, which named its championship-winning “Steve Defense” after the new Centurion. Steve also carries an impressive 67.57% win-percentage, which is second best among all 45 Centurions.

Goodness, Steve. Save some for the rest of us. Get your big Week Six match-ups, here!