Suckcess

If you aren’t familiar with the namesake for Captain Lena Amelang’s ‘Kirby Enthusiasm’, this cute little pink blob uses tremendous sucking power to inhale enemies (often inheriting any special powers they may possess). True to namesake form, after dropping their season opener to the only remaining undefeated team in the league (Blue), Pink have sucked up three straight wins, blowing through their first four games at a 3-1-0 pace that has them tickled to be toward the top of the table.

Week Four opened with Captain Jeremy Copp’s Orange taking on Captain Carl Vankoughnett’s Neon, with both teams looking to add a second notch in the win column and prove the brighter highlighter as we move into the middle third of the season. Copp & Company came into Week Four play with just TWO goals to show for nine periods of play, having been shutout in their previous two outings to drop to 1-2-0. With even the woeful and winless sides at the bottom of the standings boasting at least triple that total, Orange knew they would need to find their scoring form, or soon find themselves in league with those beleaguered cellar dwellers. Justin Hepler was on the case, and his first of the season at 3:59 in the first (Aaron Cooney & Andrew Wong), then second at 0:48 (Gordon Schmidt & Chris Fiore) gave Orange a 2-0 lead, and matched the team’s entire scoring output (Fiore’s scoring output, to be precise) from the last three games, combined. Hepler would complete the trick at 7:04 in the second (Fiore), padding the lead to three, and (more importantly) instilling some confidence in his Orange mates that the scoring punch had finally arrived. Captain Vankoughnett would cut the lead back to two with his second of the season at 1:38 in the second, leaving the score at 3-1 in Orange’s favor heading into the second break. Matt Henderson (15/17), FINALLY benefitting from some offensive support, held strong against the push to equalize, but would ultimately concede a second Neon strike to Ryan Karns with 2:57 to play (Joe Malki & Gary Peters). That would be the final answer from Neon, who would suffer their first loss of the season to POTW Hepler and Orange, 3-2. Don Tran (21/24) absorbed the loss for Neon, who will look to bounce back this Sunday against Captain Ossa’s Brown. It’s something of a miracle that Orange find themselves at 2-2-0 heading into a showdown with Captain Siemer’s Grey…they will certainly need more heroics and Hepler, Fiore, and…heck, maybe even another player or two in the Orange ranks if they hope to repeat the winning feat in Week Five.

The rest of the recaps are coming soon…