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6 teams make first cut in Rocball league
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Posted on Dec 26 2011
The 2011 Rocball Fall League is now down to six teams after the completion of elimination round games last week games at the Marianas High School Gymnasium.
Making the first cut are top finisher Aim Low (11-1), Roc It and the Teachers, which are locked for a tie for second place with similar 9-1 cards, and Alpha Q, Give-A-Hoot, and Just-do-It, which are also in a deadlock for fourth to sixth place with identical 7-4 cards. Missing the second round are Balls of Fury, Dream Team, G-Sparks, Geeks, IDK, and Lay Low.
The six qualified teams will compete in another round-robin contest next year (first week of January). Fifteen games are scheduled for the second round and only the Top 4 are allowed to advance to the crossover semifinals. The No. 1 ranked squad after the second round of competition will meet the No. 4 finisher in a best-of-three series, while the No. 2 and 3 squads will have their own showdown. Winners of the separate semis series will then march into the finals, which will be a best-of-five affair.
Meanwhile, seven barged it to the “elite list” of players who made at least one of the seven different scoring skills in rocball (volley point, rally, ace, xunk, jam, kee, and goal). The roster includes Aim Low’s A.J. Aguilar, Alpha Q’s Larry Singa, the Geeks’ Jonathan Inacio, Give-a-Hoot’s Damart Teregeyo and Poland Masaharu, Lay Low’s Icemwar Somorang, and Roc It’s Ben Olopai.
A jam is a direct spike down off a serve; an ace is a served ball hit by one defensive player and either lands on the offensive team’s court or is hit out of bounds before a second defensive player is able to touch it; a xunk is a served ball that lands on the defensive court undeflected by any of the defensive team’s players; a kee is a hit made from the backline; and a goal is scored when the ball rolled into a soccer goal located pass the backline.
