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mokenamessenger.com News the Mokena Messenger | May 4, 2017 | 13 Students have a ball for a cause during annual tournament Jason Maholy Freelance Reporter The players went by names including Elf and Alaskan Ice, on teams dubbed Not in the Face, The Dodgefathers and Sacara la Basura – the latter being Spanish for “Take Out the Trash.” Some wore homemade “uniforms” bearing their team names on the front and made-up names on the back; while others were clad in the jerseys of Derrick Rose, LeBron James and the Flint Tropics’ Clarence “Coffee Black” Withers. Some went completely outside the box and donned what can best be described as costumes: Superman and his red cape; an outlaw’s bandana teamed with women’s patterned boxer shorts worn over leggings; the rare combination of an armless Captain America T-shirt and a necktie. Lincoln-Way East students put a whole lot of creativity into the third-annual Lincoln- Way East Aaron Toppen Memorial Dodgeball Tournament, which appeared to be as much a venue for personal expression as it was for bragging rights as greatest dodgeball team in school. In the end, the Wet Bandits topped Free O.J. for the championship. East English teacher and Student Council sponsor Laura Render said the whole production is simply about having fun and raising a few hundred dollars for charity. “I just really think they have a great time,” Render said. “It was really fun to watch them enjoy themselves in kind of a wholesome-fun sort of way at school, which is always nice to see. It gives them an outlet to play something, especially if they’re not in a sport right now.” The idea of a dodgeball tournament was proposed three years ago by students Lincoln-Way East sophomore Val Ryba can’t get off a shot before taking a ball to the foot and being eliminated from play. who thought it would be fun thing to do, and the Student Council turned it into a fundraiser, Render explained. Proceeds from the $10-perstudent entry fee went to Puppies Behind Bars, which trains prison inmates to raise service dogs that assist wounded veterans and detect explosives for law enforcement. Puppies Behind Bars was chosen as the beneficiary by the family of late Army Pvt. Aaron Toppen, a former Mokena resident and East graduate who was killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan in June 2014. A former East Student Council sponsor taught Toppen and wanted to pay tribute to his memory by using the tournament as a fundraiser held in his memory, Render said. The event has raised approximately $1,500 in three years, according to Render. The rules were simple: players are eliminated from play by either being struck by a ball, or throwing a ball that is caught by an opponent. A player who catches a ball, and whose team has three or fewer members still in the game, gets to reactivate a teammate that had been eliminated. Each of the 12 teams that competed consisted of at least eight players, and every squad had to choose a name and “uniform” – although the rules pertaining to the latter are loose, if not altogether nonexistent. Several players wore T-shirts on which their team’s and individual names were scribbled in black marker. “They’re quite creative and amusing – they amuse themselves, I think,” Render said. “How creative they get is entirely up to them. This is really just a way for them to have good old-fashioned fun.” Some teams consisted entirely of members of one graduating class, while others were mixed. All but two squads were composed of all boys – one was represented by both genders and the other, the Student Athletes, was all girls. “We were actually joking about [signing up] at first, and then we decided we should actually do it, and we scraped together everybody else we could find who would actually do it with us,” said Student Athlete member Abby Aguirre. Aguirre, a sophomore, joked she was a dodgeball veteran because of her past experience playing the game during the school’s Homecoming Olympics. She and Lincoln-Way East junior Devin O’Rourke prepares to throw a ball during a game of dodgeball at the 3rd annual Aaronn Toppen Memorial Dodgeball Tournament April 25. PHOTOS BY Jason Maholy/22nd Century Media Danny Scianna, a sophomore at Lincoln-Way East, fires a ball. several of her teammates acknowledged it was intimidating playing dodgeball against squads composed entirely of boys. “We didn’t expect it to be like this, but it is kind of fun, too,” Aguirre said of being the lone all-girls team. “It doesn’t hurt when you get hit; it’s more like you’re sad you got hit, kind of a depressing feeling.” “Nobody hit me with the ball, which was nice, because it was kind of scary,” added Student Athlete member Sam Youngren. “But it was fun. I had a lot of fun.” Jalen Hacha, a freshman who couldn’t recall the last time he played dodgeball, played for Juan’s Crew. The team was named after his brother, who recruited his friends to play. “It was fun,” Hacha said after his team’s first-round contest. “It’s interesting playing against people you usually wouldn’t talk to, but it’s good to play with those other people and have fun.”
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