Beauty and the Beasts have made it clear they are the team to beat in the Men's Sixes League as the playoffs approach.
B&B (Chris Schuler, CJ Pinkney, Taras Borysyuk, Jarad Houston, Luis Martinez, Maribelle Viray and Cody Barry) finished the regular season with a 25-5 record, easily outdistancing their closest Gold Division competition, Ugly Ball (19-11) and the Pillsbury Rollers (17-13). They won the second-half standings with a 9-3 record, beating Ugly Ball (6-6) 2 games to 1 in the final match.
That means Camp Bell, which began the season in the Silver Division, finished tied for second in the Gold Division, also with a 6-6 record. Camp Bell (Mike Campbell, Eric Chen, John Titus, Ed Pyo, Ryan Kelly, Jim Findura and Roman Stobnicki), which has had a strong cast of substitutes, including Tom and Bill Narath in recent weeks, beat Ugly Ball 2 games to 1 (25-22, 22-25, 25-22) in their match on Tuesday. But Ugly Ball had beaten Camp Bell 3-0 earlier in the season, which gives them the tiebreaker for second place.
Beauty and the Beasts beat Ugly Ball 19-25, 25-17, 25-19, with Cody Barry leading the way with 17 kills. Jared Houston and Louis Martinez each had 9 kills, while Chris Schuler chipped in 5. Taras didn't play last week due to an injury.
Adam Lewis paced Ugly Ball with 10 kills, while Abe Ammary and Gregory Solovey each had 8. Adam also had 3 blocks, while Abe and Gregory each had 2. Greg Grande (4 kills) and Ilya Shchukin did the setting. Joe Saab (3 kills) and Rob Curran (4 kills) anchored the back-row defense.
The Pillsbury Rollers (Brad Kniewel, Dan Lattanzi, Robbie Widmer, Jay Sawicki, Glenn Soria and Dave Harvey) moved up to fourth place (5-7) by winning all three games - 25-20, 25-21, 25-23) against Warren Sixpak (4-8).
This week, the 10 teams in the league will play college-style matches (best 3 of 5 games to 30 points) against each other for playoff seeding positions.
B&B plays Ugly Ball, Camp Bell plays Pillsbury Rollers, and Sixpak plays the Warthogs, the top Silver Division team (11-1), who will now play in the Gold playoffs. Reminder from the league director: Teams can't use substitutes in the seeding matches or in the playoffs!
The Cheesesteaks (Fred Siegle, Andy Balint, Rich Amon, Eric Balint, Mark Kochan, Nick Serpico and Steven Gregory) had a strong finish to the regular season, winning all three games (25-19, 25-21, 25-18) agianst PZ to finish the second half with a 7-5 record. They'll play each other again in the seeding match.
The other silver seeding match will pit All the Kings Men against WML.
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