West Hall’s intramural streak comes to an end

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DENTON- The University of North Texas’ West Hall will not be winning the intramural overall sports cup they have held for four consecutive years.

With sports ranging from flag football, volleyball, soccer, basketball and softball, West Hall’s team captain, Steven Simpson said he’s lost hope in being able to keep the cup at their residence hall.

“We have only won one sport and the rest we have not done well in,” Simpson said.

Simpson says that if a residence hall wins at least two sports they are likely to win the cup.

West Hall had trouble starting up some of their sports teams, Simpson said the first softball game was forfeited because of the lack of players.

Scores for the overall sports cup are recorded differently because each win and playoff win is rewarded a certain amount of points.

Wins are rewarded two points while playoff wins are rewarded four points.

All points are added up between each hall and whoever has the most points wins the cup for the year and gets to display it at their residence hall.

At one of West Hall’s most recent softball games, they played against Bruce Hall. The team lost to Bruce 12-4.

Dayani Davilla, West Hall resident and spectator attending her second softball game was not surprised West Hall did not win the cup.

“We were not competitive enough this year, I think the West spirit has gone down,” Davilla said.

The residence hall did not have as much participation this year compared to previous years Davilla said.

Davilla has lived at West Hall since 2018 and said the residence hall even started advertised more for intramural sports in hopes of getting more resident involvement.

Second baseman Edward Medina said more practice time as a team could have also helped.

Medina said he still despite the bad season, had fun playing in every game with his teammates.

“We had really great players and a lot of athletic players throughout the different seasons of different sports and it was fun to get to participate in that,” Medina said.

Although West Hall did not win this game, keeping a positive mindset was key for pitcher Thomas Moore.

“Whatever the score is, I don’t really let it get to my head,” Moore said.

The winner for the overall sports cup has yet to be announced but Simpson and the other players are certain that West Hall did not make the cut.