Friday, May 25, 2018

DODGE, DUCK, DIP, DIVE, AND DODGE

By NICOLETTE SMITH 

On Monday, May 21, seventeen of the fiercest dodge ball teams in Orange County came together to battle it out in order to be crowned the 2018 Hopeball Champions.  Some teams were hungry for the win and determined to make it far in the competition yet, others just couldn’t come together as a team and were eliminated almost immediately. 

NICOLETTE SMITH FOR THE WIZARD WEEKLY
Hopeball is an annual dodgeball tournament that every student at WHS has the opportunity to participate in.  When teams face off against each other, the team that wins the most games out of three advance to the next round of the competition; the losing team is  immediately eliminated and kicked out of the bracket.

Darcy Doelger, a senior at WHS and the mastermind behind this operation, informed, “Basically, all I had to do was get the permission slips to people ahead of time so they could get the word out.  Since we changed the date we had more time to get as many teams as possible.” Darcy also added, “It’s an easy fundraiser to get together, but the day of the event, I had to make the bracket, get the dodgeballs, set up the sound system and make sure everything ran as smoothly as possible.”  

At the end of the tournament, there was only one victorious team: The Lucky Lads. The team members that contributed to the big win were Darcy Doelger, Taylor Fagan, Brendan Hogan, Tim Curtin, Quinn Doelger, and Ryan Johnson. Every person on this triumphant team pushed hard and was determined to obtain the win from the start. 

Quinn Doelger, a junior at WHS, stated, “It feels rewarding winning the whole tournament. We put the team together relatively quickly after leaving my old team. I had a good feeling going in. I can honestly say that I had high expectations, especially because teams were really sleeping on us. I knew that we had something to prove; winning was the only thing on our minds from the start of the first game.” 

Hopeball was not only a lucrative and lively event, it raised money for charity while giving the students of WHS a chance to duel against one another to see who the real champions truly are. 

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