With the first section of the season over halfway completed, Touch It (Lynnette Chen, Sean and Carrine Mackey, and Anthony Calabria) has taken a big step toward being the Gold Division's top team.
Playing with only three players (Carrine wasn't able to participate), Touch It won a first-place showdown with Team Happy (Karen Nolan, Ryan Less, Bryan Schaefer and Jenifer Parker, with Heidi Brady substituting for Karen this week), capturing all 3 games (25-14, 25-15, 25-18) in the matchup of two previously undefeated teams.
Touch It followed that victory up by winning 2 of 3 games against the Intellivision All-Stars (Jen Hollis, Jonathan Brooks, Chris Weber and Jason Baum), 17-25, 25-18, 25-21. Team Happy won 2 of 3 from Ultra (Edna Cetina, Jeff Shirtz, Roman Stobnocki, and Jim Elliott substituting for Alex Desau), 25-11, 25-17, 18-25.
Anthony had 18 kills and 3 aces in Touch Its' match with Intellivision, while Sean had 12 kills, 2 blocks and 4 aces. Lynnette did the setting and also had a kill and an ace. Jason had 23 kills, Jonathan added 8, and Chris had 5 for Intellivision. Chris also had 2 aces, and Jonathan added 1.
Touch It now has an 11-1 record, while Team Happy is 8-4. Intellivision is 4-8, and Ultra 1-11. After next week's matches, the bottom team from the Gold Division will move to the Silver Division.
In Silver Division highlights, Resistencia (Carla Barbatu, Junior Martins, Vinicius Costa and Milson Peixoto) made a big move upward, winning five of six games to improve to 7-5 for the season. What Hurts (Jen Duff, Roman and Angela Bulawski, and Rich and Paul Mehlin) went 4-2 and leads the division with an 8-4 record. Team 5 (Laura Stoll, Deneen Murawinski, Chris Petitto and Alex Milov) went 3-3, winning all three against Jumbled Up (Joe Cristofaro, Samantha Deckert, Bria Lovelady, Tory Thompson and Pat Coleman, with John Cain subbing for Joe), but losing all three to Resistencia. The games against Resistencia were some of the best of the night, with scores of 25-15, 25-23 and 17-15. Team 5 is now 6-6, while Jumbled Up is 3-9. After next week's matches, the top team from the division will move up to the Gold Division, while the bottom team will slip into the Bronze Division.
In Team 5's wins over Jumbled Up, Alex had 13 kills, a block and 4 aces, Deneen had 5 kills and 3 aces, Laura had a kill and 5 aces, and Chris had 2 kills, a block and 3 aces. For Jumbled Up, Pat had 6 kills, John had 9, Tory had 4, and Bria had 3.
In the Bronze Division, AARP (Tina Toribio, Sarah Chisholm, Terry Standfast and Mike Cohen) lead with a 10-2 record. BUCA (Jen Peach, Jon Raser, Phil Oney, Mark Skeels and Tony Weshefsky) are 9-3, Flying Squirrels (Melissa Eckoff, Mark Menadier, Kat McPhail, Scott Shaw and AJ Prentice) are 4-8, and Stu's Crew (Stu Nemiroff, Judy Larick, Kellye Pierre, Anthony Makajouy, and Bill Condon) are 1-11. After next week's matches, the top Bronze team moves up into the Silver Division.
BUCA won 2 of 3 games against Flying Squirrels (26-24, 15-25, 15-5), with Phil compiling 9 kills, a block and an ace to lead the way. Mark had 5 kills, Jon had 3 kills, 2 blocks and 2 aces, Tony had 3 kills and an ace, and Jen had 2 kills and 2 aces. AJ and Mark each had 8 kills for the Flying Squirrels, with AJ also contributing 6 aces. Kat had 4 kills and Melissa had 2 kills and an ace. The Squirrels managed to combine their soccer experience with the volleyball skills, with numerous kick saves during the match, including one kick-over the net by Kat. The Flying Squirrels' players are all teachers at Morris County Science and Technology School, which is just down the road from PowerZone.
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