Sp16 W7: It’s Mother’s Day!

After rain prevented all but two games in Week Six, a league’s worth of mothers made havoc of attendance on Week Seven Sunday. Ironically, the league’s only mother, Maggie Mead, led her team, The Rejects, to victory over MTA in the league’s only Sunday game. Rejects never surrendered the lead in the holiday bout, though MTA, through Jacob Anderson‘s defense, got close in the second half. Despite having most of their first string, The Rejects barely pulled it out. This was the second game in a row in which The Rejects essentially gave away the momentum in the 2nd half. Are things getting shakey at the top?

WLHS seemed to think so. On Friday, WooShoo invited The Rejects to a tiny turf field on Amsterdam and 102nd that is impervious to rain. The Rejects, however, were not. According to Steve Estes, his Rejects started with “lots of slippery-disc drops.” Estes noted “we’d regained our focus by the end, but had dug ourselves too deep a hole.” WLHS won 15 to 10.

Chosen and MTA went 1-1 during the week. Chosen beat JAWS 15 to 11, and MTA beat Chosen when Chosen didn’t show on Thursday. MTA’s loss came by way of BBQ, who has now won four out of their last five. About the victory over MTA, BBQ co-captain Mark DQ said “Steve Carpenter played exceptionally well with some ridic pinpoint hucks. The commish emeritus had an enormous layout D in the endzone. Jan Vanous skied everyone. Laura Cella had a couple beautiful up-line flicks for scores, and a hobbled DQ finally returned to the field, playing solidly mediocre.” BBQ won 15 to 11.

Let’s hope our mothers will let us out to play next Sunday!