BG Invitational Preview

Written by Adam Hynes

Sunday 27th, 2015 at the Perry Fieldhouse in beautiful Bowling Green, Ohio, the Bowling Green Falcons will play host to the neighboring Ohio schools to kick off the 2015-2016 season for Ohio altogether.  The teams in attendance will be Kent State, The Ohio State University, Akron, Baldwin Wallace, Bowling Green and new comer Ohio University.  This seems to be somewhat of a preview for the ODC to come in the spring and a great chance to see what is to come of the Ohio region early in the season.  As always with any tournament there are storylines to follow such as: who will be the top team coming out of the Ohio region this year, how will both Ohio State and Kent State start this season after both being bounced in the first round of Nationals last year, will Bowling Green be able to prove they are still ODC champion material or how will the younger teams perform to start the season?  Only time will tell and questions soon to be answered at the Bowling Green Invitational.  Continue reading “BG Invitational Preview”

Season Preview: University of Kentucky

Kentucky-LogoLocation: Lexington, Ky

NCDA Region: Kentucky

2014-15 Record: 8-12

National Tournament Finish: Lost to CMU in Quarterfinals

2015-16 Captains: Brandon Engelman – C, Colin Hiatt – A, Blake Sears– A

Returning Varsity Players: 19

Players to Watch: #23 Brandon Engelman, # 37 Drew Greenawalt, #6 Ricardo Menchaca, #7 Zach Parise, and #9 Ben Underwood

Overview: 

When scanning the league looking for a team of intrigue, look no further than the Kentucky Wildcats. Continue reading “Season Preview: University of Kentucky”

Impact at IM West Preview

Three of the premiere teams of the NCDA meet in East Lansing on Sunday for the Impact at IM West. The Spartans host the two schools that met in the championship game last season for what should be three very competitive games of dodgeball. All three teams open the season with championship aspirations, and probably expectations, with the tremendous amount of talent on their rosters.

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Opening Match 2015: Pioneer Classic

PLATTEVILLE – Bo Ryan Court: UWP def DePaul 3-0 in the Pioneer Classic, the Opening Match of the 2016 Season. -zm

The team arrived in Platteville at about two in the afternoon. After warming up, we took our sides. In the first game DePaul lost players quickly, with only a few members holding on until losing. The second game was more evenly matched. Eventually, Bryan Hymel was the last man remaining on the DePaul side, holding them off until half-time. In the second half, DePaul fought hard. Tyler Hamilton was the last man remaining, then making some great catches to bring some teammates back in. After losing that game, DePaul came surging back in the final Point, getting Platteville down to only one player in the last 10 seconds left in play. Despite dropping two games to Platteville, DePaul played well and had fun in the first match of the year. – Jake Binder [DePaul 1st Year]

Previewing the Pioneer Classic

2015 UWP All Star Matt Bautch previews this weekends opening match! -zm

This weekend at the University of Wisconsin Platteville, the Pioneer Classic is taking place to test the abilities of the new 2015-2016 Platteville and DePaul dodgeball teams. Platteville has been thinking about hosting games and/or tournaments for some time now, and this year we made it happen. It’s tough to get teams to come and play when it’s quite an adventure to get here. We’re ecstatic that DePaul is making the trip to come compete with us. It’s going to be an all-out battle between the two Illinois region teams to see who comes out victorious. It will be very interesting to see how both teams are going to strategize this year. All new members of the clubs will now get a taste of how the NCDA tournaments work, and also how an opposing team may play and strategize differently than ourselves. Whenever Platteville and DePaul meet, no matter which team wins or loses, there is so much respect and enthusiasm for each team when playing.

After throwing wrenches at our new freshman recruits to teach them how to dodge, we feel that we are ready for anything, except maybe dodging traffic. When we do start dodging traffic, we will start here in Platteville, hopefully working up to Chicago-level traffic so we will be just as good as DePaul. We will get there eventually. After workouts, we drink our own urine because it is sterile and we like the taste. The nutritional value is still being researched. In addition to the physical game, we have been trying to instill the five D’s of dodgeball into every players mind. We even have them on the backs of our shirts as reminders. After all this hard work and nutritional supplements, we feel that this will be the match of the century.

Season Preview: UWP

Location: Platteville, Wisconsin                      uwp-logo

NCDA Region: Wisconsin/Midwest

2014-2015 Record: 5-2 (only losses came to GVSU at Nationals)

2014-2015 Nationals Finish: Lost to GVSU in Quarterfinals

2015-2016 Captains: C – Erik Zander, C – Matt Bautch, A – Brian Hargrove

Returning Varsity Players: 7

Players to Watch: Erik Zander, Matt Bautch, Jeremy Oney, Nick Harding

Overview: Not unlike 1990 Eurodance sensation Snap!, UWP’s certainly got the power. It’s just a matter of them getting enough opportunities to exhibit it.

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2016 Rulebook Release

CHICAGO – September 17, 2015. Office of the Director of Officiating.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Rulebook for the 2015-2016 Season is released. We don’t have much new stuff this year, the entirety of “Gameplay” has not been changed. See the Rulebook Vote Results post on what we voted on in the off season. However there are some “timing” events that have been updated. Changes are represented in highlighted text.  Continue reading “2016 Rulebook Release”

Season Preview: Ohio State University

osu-logoLocation: Columbus, Oh

NCDA Region: Ohio

2014-15 Record: 10-8

National Tournament Finish: Lost to Towson in 1st Round

2015-16 Captains: Josh Conner – C, Jeff Starr – A, Marshall Winterbotham– A

Returning Varsity Players: 17

Players to Watch: Jacob Hulbert, Brian Peacock, Ben Albert and Nico Wong


Overview:

Ohio State enters the 2015-16 season standing in an interesting place.  Or maybe I should say that nobody is really sure where the Buckeyes actually stand.  Continue reading “Season Preview: Ohio State University”

Fall 2015 Schedule

Date Venue Event Name W Team
2015-09-19 UWP UWP, UNL, DePaul, CMU
2015-09-20 MSU MSU, CMU, GVSU
2015-09-26 GVSU Grand Valley Gauntlet Part 1 GVSU, CMU
2015-10-04 GVSU Grand Valley Gauntlet Part 2 GVSU, MSU, CMU, OSU
2015-10-10 UK UK, BGSU, OSU
2015-10-11 GVSU Battle of the Valleys GVSU, SVSU
2015-10-11 Kent Kent, open for others
2015-10-17 JMU Pumpkinfest II JMU, PSU, TU, VCU, UMD, SU
2015-10-25 GVSU Grand Valley Gauntlet Part 3 GVSU, MSU, CMU, UK, DePaul
2015-11-14 Towson Towson Open TU, SU, UNT, VCU,
2015-11-15 MSU Spartan Invite MSU, CMU, GVSU, DePaul, BGSU, SVSU, Kent

If you are a host and have an event that isn’t listed here, please let us know. If you have an event name that differs, let us know. If you haven’t named your event, name it something cool and let us know.

And remember, our schedules aren’t listed in stone. Event Schedules and matchups should be posted to the League at least one week prior to an event.

Season Preview: WKU

Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky                            imgres

NCDA Region: Kentucky/Upper South

2014-2015 Record: 3-24

2014-2015 Nationals Finish: Lost in 1st Round to JMU

2015-2016 Captains: C – Nick Johnson, A – Hunter Dickison, A – Dom Warfield

Returning Varsity Players: 11

Players to Watch: Josh Wynn, Josh Hicks, Everett Taylor, Nick Johnson (out until second semester)  Continue reading “Season Preview: WKU”