Thursday, July 13, 2023

The league celebrated Halloween in July tonight, and there were some great costumes. Sour Patch Kids and Swedish Fish were devoured on the sidelines, and spirits were high. The captains were also focused on the time as a storm was expected during the late game.

Best Fronds featured Jasper dressed as an actual frond and farmer Mufasa in the early game. Kate was not able to attend, and the entire league is sorry about that as she routinely has amazing costumes for this event. Lily was a champion for Fronds as their only DoW. Fronds opened up with a 5-1 lead over Bottomless Mimosas, who were high in spirit in spite of being low on costumes. Mimosas eventually started to kick in, and once Fronds were feeling it Mimosas completed the comeback. Final was 11-7 Mimosas, hard cap. Diane and a Snorlax were on the sidelines playing catch during the early game, but I'm pretty sure the Snorlax was actually Jimi.

Captain Marisa flew in on a plush Sky Bison for the prime time game. She was rocking full Aang arrow tattoos, and several other Bison got kitted up as airbenders too. They definitely won the night for their team theme, and they won their game too. Bison were up big over Purple Rain at half. Rain made a nice comeback, including a sweet bookends by Lindsay. However, the Bison held on to win 12-10, hard cap. Yip yip! Props to Wes for wearing the only orange costume I saw at the Kiln tonight, a Charmander onesie, even though he was playing for Purple Rain.

Tom and Ashley had amazing inflatable costumes to represent for Ice Ice Babies. Black Pepper included a skeleton, Santa, Darth Vader, a swimmer, a bat, and a black list, but the costumes ended up taking a backseat once the late game started, and Pepper never got a team picture. Pepper got off to a hot start, though, and took half 8-4. Babies got one break back in the second half before lightning halted play at about 9:30, just as the weatherman sadly predicted. Since the game was in the second half, the score counted as a final, 10-7 Pepper over Ice Ice Babies.