2017 Rotary Dodgeball Challenge Highlight Video
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The official city team of Copperas Cove, the “Untouchaballs,” was literally untouchable as it rolled to a perfect 9-0 record, winning its division and then taking home the 2017 Rotary Dodgeball Challenge Cup on Saturday, October 14, 2017. The President of the Rotary Club of Harker Heights, Richard Bean, presented the coveted hardware to the wire-to-wire undefeated first place finishers (above). The hard-throwing team also was presented the “Dead-Eye Award” for having the highest degree of accuracy on their shots of all the teams in the tournament.
Perennial dodgeball powerhouse the “Mother Duckers” won the second division, and newcomers from Fort Hood called “Shake-N-Bake” won the third division. For the first time in Dodgeball Challenge history, all three division winners went 5-0.
Also for the first time in Dodgeball Challenge history, there was a sudden-death playoff for the Wild Card playoff spot. A team fielded by the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, the “Court Marshals,” finished 4-1, as did the official city team of Harker Heights, the “Heights Dodgefathers.” They also finished equally in the tiebreaking category of players remaining after victories, necessitating the 1 game playoff. The “Heights Dodgefathers” won the game and advanced to the semifinals with the division winners.
In the semifinals, the “Untouchaballs” swept “Shake-N-Bake” in 2 games of the best of three match, and the “Heights Dodgefathers” likewise swept the “Mother Duckers” in two games.
But the “Heights Dodgefathers” had no better luck than any previous team in finding the way to defeat the unstoppable “Untouchaballs,” who became the first Dodgeball Challenge champions to finish with a perfect 9-0 record.
2017 ROTARY DODGEBALL CHALLENGE TEAMS/DIVISIONS
DIVISION A
Team Name Sponsoring Organization/Person
Beaming Bobcats Harker Heights Elementary School
JWC Hammers JWC (Jim Wright Company)
Infamous Interactors HHHS Interact/Wilbea Medical Equip
Shake-N-Bake Kendrick Thomas
Fright Night HHHS NHS/Jackeline Fountain
JWC Incrediballs JWC (Jim Wright Company)
Big Ballers Union State Bank
JWC Ballzinga JWC (Jim Wright Company)
DIVISION B
Team Name Sponsoring Organization/Person
Heights Dodgefathers City of Harker Heights
You Can’t Dodge This City of Temple
Untouchaballs City of Copperas Cove
BYE Open
Salado Slammers Village of Salado
Our Balls, Your Face City of Killeen
DIVISION C
Team Name Sponsoring Organization/Person
Solar Guys Solar CenTex, LLC
ONO50 (Oh NO, 5-0) Harker Heights Police Dept
In Your Face About Face Anti-Aging Institute
Court Marshals Office of the Staff Judge Advocate
Seeing Stars & Stripes Fort Hood USO
Mother Duckers RCHH Satellite Club
Moneyball Greater Central Texas Fed Cr Union
Not In The Face Rotary Club of Killeen Heights
The massed teams of the 2017 Rotary Dodgeball Challenge
For the “official” individual team portraits for the teams that posed for one, please click (HERE).