2002 CSA AWARDS

GAME OF THE YEAR

MARCH 4, 2002
BETTER THAN DALLAS v.
HIGH MAINTENANCE

The Game of the Year award is just that. CSA will choose one game from the over 1,500 played during 2002 and give it's participants special recognition. Although many games are exciting and dramatic, their are always a select few that those who competed in it, officiated it, and were in attendance for, remember.

FINALISTS

Better Than Dallas 14 - High Maintenance 13
Co-ed Flag Football - March 4, 2002
The Monday Co-ed Flag Football championship comes down to the very end. Facing fourth down from their own seven yard line, BTD hits a 55 yard pass to set up the championship winning touchdown with just thirty seconds remaining in the game. Better Than Dallas becomes the first team to go winless in the regular season and then win a CSA championship.

Independent Strippers Union (ISU) 19 - Screwballs 18
Co-ed Softball - August 29, 2002
The Summer Thursday Dresden championship game set a record for the longest game in CSA by time, 1 hour and 45 minutes, most innings played (8), and most runs scored in a co-ed championship (37). ISU had a 12 run third inning rally, and then needed one run in the bottom of the seventh to keep the game going and two runs in the bottom of the eighth to win it.

Renegades 25 - Wide Right 19
Men's Flag Football - October 24, 2002
One of the best rivalries in CSA, this was the fourth meeting of the teams. The Renegades trailed 19-13 with just under two minutes left. After scoring the tying touchdown, the conversion attempt to take the lead failed and the game looked like it would end in a tie. Wide Right got the ball, but was unable to move it. After Wide Right failed to convert on fourth down, the Renegades got the ball with only nine seconds left at the Wide Right 35 yard line. The Renegades sent a hail mary to the end zone, and after it was tipped at the goal line, a Renegades receiver was able to pull the ball in and keep his feet in bounds at the back of the end zone for the miracle win.

Peaked In High School 19 - It's All About the Beer 18
Co-ed Softball - November 17, 2002
Peaked in High School holds off a furious comeback from It's All About the Beer to win their fourth straight co-ed softball championship. After trailing 16-8 after three innings, It's All About the Beer chipped away at the lead and with two outs in the bottom of the sixth it was 18-18 and Peaked had runners on first and second. They managed to score one run to take the lead and held IAAB off the board in the seventh to seal the win

SEMI-FINALISTS

Legion of Doom 35 - Allgood 27
Co-ed Flag Football - May 21, 2002
Even the lights going out can't stop this track meet from setting the CSA record for points scored in a game. The 62 total points smashed the previous high of 54 set in May of 2001.

Billy Otis 13 - Animal Olympics 7
Co-ed Flag Football - June 29, 2002
The first CSA co-ed playoff game ever to go into overtime takes three extra sessions to complete. Billy Otis keeps Animal Olympics from scoring on 12 tries from the 10 yard line to advance.

Unsafe At Any Speed 14 - Going Deep 13
Co-ed Flag Football - June 29, 2002
The first weekend championship game to determine possession of "The Drunken Boot" is won on a furious second half rally. Unsafe comes back from a 13-2 halftime deficit to pull out the win in the Saturday Spring league championship game.

W.P.O.A. 13 - Billy Otis 12
Co-ed Flag Football - August 17, 2002
Billy Otis comes within one minute of pulling off the biggest upset in CSA flag football playoff history. With key players missing Billy Otis held a 12-7 lead with just over a minute remaining. A 30 yard touchdown pass for W.P.O.A. gave them the lead and propelled them to the Saturday league championship.

Thriller Thursday
Peaked In High School 11 - Fighting Amish 10
Spotted Dicks 14 - Last Call 13
Co-ed Softball - September 5, 2002
With the sun going down, both Peaked In High School and Spotted Dicks have big rallies in the bottom of the seventh to advance to the Summer Thursday Piedmont league championship game.
Peaked comes from 10-6 down in the seventh with five straight runs to win the game. Spotted needed seven runs in the bottom of the seventh to make their comeback

PT BP2/ISU 29 - Termnet Terminators 28
Co-ed Softball - September 23, 2002
A Little Fenway shootout goes only four innings, but smashes the co-ed record for combined runs in a game (57). Termnet trailed 26-10 entering the top of the fourth (and last) inning. They rallied for 18 runs to take a 28-26 lead, but PT BP2 responded with three runs of their own to win the game. The total runs broke the old mark of 50, set exactly one year before on 9/23/01.

Galyan's 35 - American Golf 34
Men's Softball - September 29, 2002
In an open round playoff game, Galyan's and American Golf set the CSA record for total runs (points) in any game with 69. The game set records for runs, runs scored in a loss, and bested the previous total for runs in any softball game by 12, and in any men's softball game by 17.

Desperados 26 - CCRT Ballers 24
Co-ed Softball - October 2, 2002
The Desperados capture their first CSA championship with a victory over CCRT Ballers in a classic shootout. The 50 total runs broke the championship game record set on August 29. In typical Little Fenway fashion, the offense was produced by an obscene number of home runs by each team.