GRACE ELEYAE | guest writer
photo | OLIVER KIMOKEO
Slama-Lama-Ding-Dong senior running back Shannon Strossner avoids being flag-tackled by the B & B defense.


Intramural Powder Puff had their championship game under the bright lights of the Cougar Athletic Stadium on Thursday, Nov. 29.

The undefeated Slama-Lama-Ding-Dong (SLDD), under the coaching direction of senior applied health major Juan Soberal, took on the ladies of Babes and Bloodshed (B&B).

The game was a rematch of the season opener on Sept. 25 and a chance for B & B to get a revenge victory on SLDD.

“I really respected the girls on the [B & B] team,” junior business administration major and SLDD quarterback Traci Lawson said. “I knew it was going to be a good fight.”

After SLDD won the coin toss, the kicker for B & B launched a 40-yard kick into the arms of senior physical education major and SLDD wide receiver Alyssa Ferdaszewski.

In the ensuing action, SLDD sacked the B & B quarterback in their own end zone, putting the first two points of the game on the board with a safety.

With ten minutes left in the half, Lawson lofted a 20-yard pass to Ferdaszewski, who ran it in for the first touchdown of the night.

“We are just competitors. Whatever play it is, someone always steps up,” Ferdaszewski said.

The next half-hour of play went scoreless until senior marketing major Shannon Strossner ran for 30 yards into the end zone with five minutes remaining to give SLDD another six points.

“Everyone gives 100 percent,” Strossner said, “Every girl is talented in her own area.”

SLDD allowed only two touchdowns their entire season and the trend continued in the championship as they kept B & B from scoring any points.

“We have a great defense,” junior global studies major Erica Solis said. “I feel like we all work as a team.”

SLDD has four coaches: head coach Soberal, defensive coordinator Buddy McNeill (senior physical education major), offensive coordinator Mike Miller (senior social science major) and special teams coach Stephen Vogt (senior physical education major).

The team practiced once before the season started and would walk through plays before every game to prepare.

“We have a bunch of athletes on our team. We just throw it up and let them do it,” McNeill said.

The final score was SLDD 14, B&B 0.