News Release out of - Saranac Lake, NY
Dodgeball gets serious in Placid
By ANDY BATES, For the Enterprise
Posted on: Saturday, March 31, 2007
LAKE PLACID — The game of dodgeball may have been one of your fond playground pastimes. It may also be one you only revisit in nightmares.
Either way, the game is alive and well in Lake Placid, and not just at the playground or in gym class.
Go to the racquetball court at the Golden Arrow on a Tuesday or Thursday night, and you’re bound to see some intense action — grown men and women hurling small but dense rubber-coated foam balls from end to end, wailing legs and midsections.
These aren’t random pick-up games, they’re league games — with teams, rules and royalties.
Nick Zarcone, who works at the Golden Arrow, started the dodgeball league this winter after moving here from the Rochester area.
“I was in a dodgeball league one night a week, and there were 20 or 30 teams,” Zarcone said. “The winner got to go the national dodgeball championship. I didn’t know many people when I moved here, so I thought (starting a dodgeball league) might be a good way to meet people, too.”
So far, interest has caught on, he said. There are currently five teams duking it out each week.
The game begins with each team’s players (a minimum of four per team) standing at the back wall of the court. Once the whistle blows, it’s a rush to center court where four balls wait.
From there, it’s pretty much chaos. There are five, five-minute games per match, and the object, in case you stayed away from the dodgeball court in your school days, is to hit as many other opposing players as possible, hence eliminating them from the game. If you catch at ball thrown by an opposing player, the player that threw the ball is eliminated.
Each team has to have members of both sexes to participate, and head shots are fair game, Zarcone said, since they don’t use those red rubber four-square balls that used to rule the dodgeball landscape.
Once the matches are over and the night’s winning team is declared, it’s off to Roomers Night Club to dull the pain, with the winning team receiving a full bottle of that night’s shot special.
Any members from the other teams also receive two domestic bottles of beer or well drinks for participating.
But, above all else, the one thing Zarcone said everybody can count on receiving is a good workout.
“It’s pretty intense, physically,” he said, “even though you might not think it.”
So far, it looks like the team fielded by the Hilton could take the first championship, though the Soulshine Bagel team is formidable, Zarcone said.
He said he hopes to broaden the playing field by starting another league once this one ends in April.
Reposted by the National Dodgeball Association
- Your Dodgeball Connection GET CONNECTED!!
By ANDY BATES, For the Enterprise
Posted on: Saturday, March 31, 2007
LAKE PLACID — The game of dodgeball may have been one of your fond playground pastimes. It may also be one you only revisit in nightmares.
Either way, the game is alive and well in Lake Placid, and not just at the playground or in gym class.
Go to the racquetball court at the Golden Arrow on a Tuesday or Thursday night, and you’re bound to see some intense action — grown men and women hurling small but dense rubber-coated foam balls from end to end, wailing legs and midsections.
These aren’t random pick-up games, they’re league games — with teams, rules and royalties.
Nick Zarcone, who works at the Golden Arrow, started the dodgeball league this winter after moving here from the Rochester area.
“I was in a dodgeball league one night a week, and there were 20 or 30 teams,” Zarcone said. “The winner got to go the national dodgeball championship. I didn’t know many people when I moved here, so I thought (starting a dodgeball league) might be a good way to meet people, too.”
So far, interest has caught on, he said. There are currently five teams duking it out each week.
The game begins with each team’s players (a minimum of four per team) standing at the back wall of the court. Once the whistle blows, it’s a rush to center court where four balls wait.
From there, it’s pretty much chaos. There are five, five-minute games per match, and the object, in case you stayed away from the dodgeball court in your school days, is to hit as many other opposing players as possible, hence eliminating them from the game. If you catch at ball thrown by an opposing player, the player that threw the ball is eliminated.
Each team has to have members of both sexes to participate, and head shots are fair game, Zarcone said, since they don’t use those red rubber four-square balls that used to rule the dodgeball landscape.
Once the matches are over and the night’s winning team is declared, it’s off to Roomers Night Club to dull the pain, with the winning team receiving a full bottle of that night’s shot special.
Any members from the other teams also receive two domestic bottles of beer or well drinks for participating.
But, above all else, the one thing Zarcone said everybody can count on receiving is a good workout.
“It’s pretty intense, physically,” he said, “even though you might not think it.”
So far, it looks like the team fielded by the Hilton could take the first championship, though the Soulshine Bagel team is formidable, Zarcone said.
He said he hopes to broaden the playing field by starting another league once this one ends in April.
Reposted by the National Dodgeball Association
- Your Dodgeball Connection GET CONNECTED!!
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