PUC Chronicle

Issue date: 12/11/06 Section: Sports

Media Credit: Bradley Ehrhardt Chronicle photo by Bradley Ehrhardt

The loud thump of bean bags echoed through the REC center gym Wednesday as ten pairs of students competed to be crowned this semester's bean bags champions. The prize was a T-shirt, but most people came out to relax and have some fun.

The tournament was double elimination and it took over an hour to whittle the teams down to the final two.
Matt Dudzik, intramural sports coordinator said the first bean bag tournament was held last fall.
Twenty people showed last year, the same number that attended this year's tournament.
"The turn out this year was good, especially considering it's so close to finals," said Dudzik.
The rules of the game are simple. Each match was played to 21 points. However, if a team was winning by a score of 11-0 they won the match by default. Pairs stood facing each other, on opposite sides of the game area. The boards were 30 feet apart and players threw the bags from the front of the board. On each turn, players threw four bean bags and tried to get them to fall into the hole on the board. If the bag went in the team scored three points, and if the bag hit the board and stayed on the board it was worth one point.
During the tournament, the games were kept friendly. Losing teams bowed out gracefully, often exchanging high fives and going to the sidelines to talk to the other eliminated pairs.
When all was said and done, one team reigned victorious. One half of the winning pair was Kevin Hoolehan, a freshman majoring in finance. His coach, Zach Bujaki, an undecided freshman, said that "momentum" was the key to Hoolehan's win.
Bujaki knows what it takes to succeed tossing bean bags.
"Back in the day, I was quite the player," said Bujaki. "I had to show them the drills."

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