[TFDA] SAS-2 tied up in Red Tape as State of NC Employees take 2009 Corporate Tourney Title

Jaime Schnurr jaimeschnurr at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 20 16:53:02 EDT 2009


The player referred to as "Bill ???" is Bill Keither : )

> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:35:53 -0400
> From: amyaxon at gmail.com
> To: schwoerkec at yahoo.com
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> Subject: Re: [TFDA] SAS-2 tied up in Red Tape as State of NC Employees take	2009 Corporate Tourney Title
> 
> Aah what sweet memories this brings about.  In 2001, when Victor was a wee
> lad he helped our team of Government Employees win the Corporate Tourney. We
> were mostly state employees but strategically added county/city
> govenment, so we could could pick up the player formerly known as Beth
> Cates.  Pat Cox may have started the tournament, but we got his better half
> (Shellie) on our team. If memory serves, I believe we had to play a SAS team
> in the final game. I appologize to the members of the SAS team in the fact
> that the only player I can remember was Mel Proctor, who was killing us so
> badly that we put up two of our men to defend her full time. Sadly that's
> about all I can recall, except for the sheer thrill of winning!
> 
> Here is a photo of the 2001 team, your fearless state/county/city
> employees....aren't you glad you pay your taxes ;)
> 
> Names of the players from left to right: Greg ???, Victor Maneilly, Shellie
> Cox, Jeff Faulkner, Mary Molly Taylor, Jamie Hammermann, Rodney Guajardo,
> Jason Bivens, Alan Hoyle , Bill ???, Kristen Cozza, Beth Cates Stagner, Amy
> Axon, Chris Roeseller, Allan Axon. (Sorry if I mispelled or got your name
> wrong)
> 
> -Amy
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Christian Schwoerke
> <schwoerkec at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > 2009 Corporate Tourney
> >
> > Triangle, NC .  The cumbersomely named State of NC Employees team, led by
> > Victor Maneilly, triumphed over Jenn Coon’s SAS-2 team at the 2009 Annual
> > Corporate Tourney Sunday, April 19, winning the final game of the day 11-6.
> >
> > This former annual event, initiated nearly 10 years ago by Pat Cox of IBM,
> > has languished in recent years, but was revived this year under the aegis of
> > TFDA.  With 10 teams participating in 2009, it is hoped that this tourney
> > will continue to grow to as many as 16 teams in the near future.
> >
> > A business day begins at 9am, as did this tourney, with players arriving as
> > early as 8:30 at Cedar Fork District Park in Morrisville, under skies that
> > remained overcast the entire day.  Four fields were set up to accommodate 10
> > teams, with two pools of five teams playing four games before advancing to
> > an A and B semis and a consolation game for the #5 finishers in each pool.
> >
> > Teams participating ranged from IBM’s three squads to a telecommunications
> > consortium (Nortel/Cisco), to a merger of three small business entities
> > (White Collar Combo), to a church group (David).  The following are the
> > teams and their captains:
> >
> > IBM-1 (Missy Summerville)
> > IBM-2 (Andy Ivory)
> > IBM-3 (Kristen Dunne)
> > SAS-1 (Mark Britt)
> > SAS-2 (Jenn Coon)
> > Nortel/Cisco (Cory Hatch/Josh Greene)
> > Carolina Outreach (Tom Reid)
> > White Collar Combo (Marshall McClure/Sara Allen)
> > State of NC Employees (Victor Maneilly)
> > David (Joe Kinnarney/Matthew Staples)
> >
> > Without any way to gauge the true strength of squads, the pools were formed
> > randomly, with the following results:
> >
> > Pool A: IBM-1, IBM-3, SAS-1, White Collar Combo, State of NC Employees
> > Pool B: IBM-2, Nortel/Cisco, SAS-2, Carolina Outreach, David
> >
> > All games were to 11, inside 1:15 rounds.  Even with a steady wind present
> > through the day, gaining force in the semis and finals, most games made it
> > to 11.  This was not entirely the case for Pool A in its last two rounds,
> > which suffered the misfortune of being located on fields that turned out to
> > be double-booked, thus forcing migration to another set of fields, and then,
> > later, another migration whilst in mid-game.  (Many thanks to Adam Holland
> > et al. for helping to make these transitions as smooth as possible!)
> >
> > Finals results in each pool were the following:
> >
> > Pool A
> > State of NC Employees :: 3-1 (+3)
> > SAS-1 :: 3-1 (-1)
> > IBM-1 :: 3-1 (-2)
> > White Collar Combo :: 1-3
> > IBM-3 :: 0-4
> >
> > Pool B
> > SAS-2 :: 4-0
> > IBM-2 :: 3-1
> > Nortel/Cisco :: 1-3 (+6)
> > David :: 1-3 (0)
> > Carolina Outreach :: 1-3 (-6)
> >
> > Note that each pool had three-way ties, with Pool A’s top three finishers
> > amassing 3-1 records, while in Pool B, it was the last three finishers vying
> > for the #3 position with 1-3 records.  Point differentials were used to sort
> > out the teams (parentheses above).
> >
> > The team teams involved in the consolation game, IBM-3 and Carolina
> > Outreach, both opted to eschew further play, as there would be a 1:15 bye
> > before a field came available.  B-Div semis pitted Missy Summerville’s IBM-1
> > against Joe Kinnarney’s David.  Alongside their field Corey Hatch’s
> > Nortel/Cisco squad faced off against Marshall McClure’s White Collar Combo.
> >  It is to be noted that Robbie Minshall made his only appearance at the
> > tourney during this round, when he cleated up to assist IBM-1 overcome
> > David, 11-5.  Even with players departing before and mid-game, Nortel/Cisco
> > was still able to bring enough firepower in its match against the White
> > Collar Combo to seal a 9-6 victory.  B-Div finals, however, which would’ve
> > paired IBM-1 with Nortel/Cisco did not take place, as both teams conceded
> > they’d had enough, leaving a single game for all remaining players to watch,
> > ie, the A-Div finals.
> >
> > The road to the A-Div finals included an IBM-2 / State Employees matchup
> > and the two SAS squads vying against one another.  In the former match,
> > IBM-2 could not muster the firepower to get any more than 6 points against
> > the state bureaucracy, while in the internecine struggle, each squad battled
> > to gain the edge.  Cate Foster (a Team USA player for this year’s Worlds
> > event) was part of the SAS squad that included Mark Britt and the Proctors
> > (Jon and Mel).  Even with Cate’s world-class play, SAS-1 fell to SAS-2,
> > albeit by the narrowest of margins, 10-11.
> >
> > The victory by Jenn Coon’s SAS squad brought them tired but game for a
> > finals match with the State Employees.  Victor Maneilly’s team featured Sion
> > Stone, Kenny Marcus, and Melanie Morgan as their primary players, with
> > yeoman support provided by a solid, competent line, including Matt Avery,
> > Jeff Faulkner, Yale Lin, and Jerry Rosenberg.  SAS’s strong suit was its
> > familiarity with one another (two to three times a week playing a noon-time
> > game on campus) and two prime-time players, John Boling and Joey Connelly
> > (their ringer).  SAS’s ringer woman, Meredith Neiss, was not available for
> > the finals.
> >
> > SAS used a zone defense throughout much of the game and generated several
> > turnovers, though in the second half, it was less effective and simply wore
> > down those who were playing in the cup.  The State Employees were making big
> > throws and bringing them down.  The game seemed to get away from SAS after
> > the Employees ran off four points to go up 5-2.  SAS regrouped with a time
> > out and ran off three of their own to tie the game at 5s.  The final point
> > of the half, however, reverted back to the Employees, putting them up, 6-5.
> >  The second half began with a quick back and forth, each team gaining a
> > point, 7-6, but the next point was a long battle that finally resolved with
> > a Sion hammer to Matt Avery, giving them a two-point lead, 8-6.  SAS could
> > not gain any traction, and the Employees’ momentum continued, allowing them
> > to rack up three more goals and the tourney championship with an 11-6
> > victory.
> >
> > Videographer Tim Pflaum took footage of some of the semis games and of the
> > first half of the A-Div finals, but declined to film more with the threat of
> > the light rain becoming something more ominous and potentially
> > game-stopping.  (The rain did hold off.) Footage from the games was shown
> > later that evening at O’Mulligans, a local, nearby watering hole to which
> > many retired for post-tourney food, suds, and conviviality.
> >
> > Be sure to pencil in next year’s edition of this annual one-day tourney for
> > sometime mid-April, 2010, which should give you enough time to begin
> > prepping your workday colleagues in the skills/conditioning required to
> > play...
> >
> > Simple line score for the finals:
> >
> > SAS-2:: 1__2_________3_4_5_____6
> > State:: __1__2_3_4_5_______6_7___8_9_10_11
> >
> > Another version, with assists and scores:
> >                            SAS  v. State of NC Employees
> >     John Boling/George Wilder 1
> >                                   1 Sion Stone/Yale Lin
> >            Xan Gregg/Dee Lape 2
> >                                   2 Victor Maneilly/Kenny Marcus
> >                                   3 Melanie Morgan/Marcus
> >                                   4 Marcus/Maneilly
> >                                   5 Stone/Jeff Faulkner
> >           Boling/Marc Kessler 3
> >   Dave Jeffreys/Joey Connelly 4
> >          Kessler/Heidi Porter 5
> >                                   6 Stone/Morgan
> >                                   7 Jerry Rosenberg/Matt Avery
> >              Jeffreys/Bolding 6
> >                                   8 Stone/Avery
> >                                   9 Marcus/Lin
> >                                   10 Stone/Faulkner
> >                                   11 Williams/Mellot
> >
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