{"id":105396,"date":"2017-01-26T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T20:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=105396"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:17","slug":"bates-at-night-intramural-broomball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2017\/01\/26\/bates-at-night-intramural-broomball\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates at Night: Intramural broomball"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday night, as gym rats smoothly finished their workouts in the Davis Fitness Center upstairs in Underhill Arena, a far less graceful activity began down on the ice: intramural broomball.<\/p>\n

Broomball is “like hockey for people who can\u2019t skate,\u201d says Spencer Wallace \u201917 of Madison, Wis., captain of the Worldstar Broomball intramural team. In one of two games on a recent evening, Worldstar played the Swedish House Mafia. \u201cEven if you\u2019re good at broomball, you\u2019re not really good at broomball.<\/p>\n

“But that\u2019s the fun of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Ross Richins '17 of the Salt Cats displays his sliding strategy.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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From the bench, the Salt Cats broomball team cheers their teammates as they advance the ball.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Students gather at Underhill Arena for intramural broomball on Jan. 25.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Worldstar Broomball captain Spencer Wallace '17 celebrates after scoring the only goal of their game vs. Swedish House Mafia.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Speed and control are keys to broomball success. But you don't have to have either.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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In broomball, players wearing sneakers bat around an inflatable ball, about the size of a soccer ball. The sticks resemble those used in field hockey, except the bottom looks like a car windshield ice scraper. Each team has six players, and the games are 36 minutes long.<\/p>\n

Like most sports, speed and control are keys to broomball success. But having neither holds back no one.<\/p>\n

For Salt Cats player Ross Richins \u201917 of Westerly, R.I., hitting the ball while standing is a challenge so he spends the game sliding around on his knees. \u201cYou gotta slide all day,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

Pointing to his new kneepads, Richins says he went padless during the team’s first game last week and “couldn\u2019t walk for about two days. So I got these today, and I\u2019m rolling solid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Moreau \u201917 of Waccabuc, N.Y., captain of the Salt Cats, was sidelined with a bum shoulder, injured in last week\u2019s Puddle Jump. Despite his team’s loss to Sweep or Skull, Moreau remains optimistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were too hot, too hot,” he explains. “But we\u2019ll come back humble and we\u2019ll crush it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bates at Night takes in an evening of intramural broomball, a sport where even if you\u2019re good at it, you’re not very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":105397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[223,11012],"tags":[11217,11281,8246],"class_list":["post-105396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slideshow","category-student-life","tag-bates-at-night","tag-intramurals","tag-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105396"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105396\/revisions\/105465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}