PFOL 3 teams announced

MEDIA ALERT


Indianapolis – Teams for the third season of PFOL have been approved by the Board of Governors. PFOL 3 will feature four teams when the league tip offs on October 8th. Several new players will take the court this season as rookies John Griffin (Bucknell University) and Graham Neuburger (Santa Clara) team up with some other PFOL 3 veterans.

“This is the most talent PFOL has ever had”, said Edmound Elzy. “All four teams have a strong starting five”.

Three members of the PFOL 2 Champion Deemer’s Dream Team are teamed up again for this season. Riche Smith, Vance Catlin and Jake Vernon look to win a second championship in a row. Vernon is confident going into the season, “I carried my PFOL 1 team, I carried my PFOL 2 team and I will carry my PFOL 3 team to another championship”. When asked to comment on Vernon’s statement, Vance Catlin simply let out a huge sigh and walked away.

The full PFOL 3 scheduled will be released next week.

Below are the 4 teams for this season:

Team 1
Vance Catlin
Richie Smith
Brian Brown
Kyle Krol
Jake Vernon
Alex Montagano
Stacy Paetz
Zach Wogtech

Team 2
John Griffin
Graham Neuburger
Greg Smith
Brian Stutzman
Dave Neff
Thorpe Miller
Zach Bonvillian

Team 3
Edmound Elzy
Jason Rost
Eric Flatt
Bob Herzog
Cameron Monnier
Scott Higginson
Doug Morgan

Team 4
Pat Sullivan
Alan Mowrey
Jason McGuinness
Troy Brokl
Sam Elmore
Andrew Boehner
Chris Melby
Peter Dinwiddie

PFOL 3 Set to Tip Off Oct 8th

Season 3 of PFOL is scheduled to tip off on October 8th. All games will be played midday at Conseco Feildhouse.

Season 3 will have some familiar faces returning to the hardwood. Some of those include:

Edmound Elzy, aka "Tracy McGrady". Elzy is looking to get his first playoff win of his career.

Jake Vernon returns for a 3rd season and is anxious to see who's coat tales he can ride to a possible 3rd championship.

Greg Smith returns to PFOL after a brief stint oversees.

Dave Neff returns despite losing his Ball State Buddy Marcus Hall to free-agency

Season 3 will also see an influx of rookie talent including two Division 1 athletes. John Griffin (Bucknell) and Graham Neuburger (Santa Clara) will be joining the PFOL. Their eligibility will be complete once they pass their mandatory rookie class: "How to cope and accept bad calls by Jake Vernon".

McAlister's Deli Game Summary: Deemer's Dream Team Wins PFOL 2

Deemer's Dream Team won the PFOL 2 Championship last Monday with a 62-38 victory over Brute Force. It is the second championship for Vance Catlin, Jake Vernon and Zach Bonvillian. Deemer's Dream Team routed Brute Force who were missing three of thier key players. Jhared Simpson (job relocation) Jon Rangel (job ended) and Andrew Boehner (flu like symptoms) all missed the game. "We knew without those three players we were in for a long night" said Alan Mowrey. Brute Force played with only 5 players while Deemer's Dream Team had a full roster. "Not taking anything away from their win, they beat us pretty handily, but it would be interesting to play them with our full squad - I think it would be a good game", said Mowrey.

Richie Smith scored 17 points and grabbed 7 rebounds as he won Finals MVP. Vance Catlin chipped in 16 points and grabbed 5 rebounds.

PFOL 3 is scheduled to tip off on Oct 8th.

Photos of Brute Force - Deemer's Dream Team Finals

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Both teams warming up before the tip off. Believe it or not, Jake actually called a foul on this shot in warmups. A sign of things to come.




Alan Mowrey doing some in game Tweeting. "@PacersVPTix just called a foul in warm ups"

PFOL 2 Championship game is under way

Mowrey taking Vernon baseline for a quick 4-0 lead

Melby was 4 for 4 to start the game and helped Brute Force gain a 10-2 lead

Loose ball, so Vernon decides to Karate chop Melby in the back of the head. Elmore trying to warn Melby.

"Foul" - First bad call of the day by Vernon

Melby was on fire in the first half

Mowrey getting to the rim


Elmore takes a break from hitting Vance to score a layup

Mowrey couldn't find the outside shot all game

Jason McGuiness knocks down a three to cut Deemer's Dream Team's lead to 10 in the 1st half

Kyle Krol left to watch from the side line as his team was eliminated last week

Bad call #10 by Vernon. This foul call came about 4 seconds after this picture was taken

Brian Brown knocking down the outside shot

Richie Smith knocking down another 3 over the outstretched Melby

The white TJ Ford gets to the rim for a layup but misses the shot.

Thorpe Miller chasing down a bad pass for a fast break layup

Stutzman was 0-6 on the night


Vance put up another impressive performance in the finals

Scott Higginson knocking down a 3

Richie delivered the final blow with 2 huge 3 pointers in the last 2 minutes.

Deemer's Dream Team are the PFOL 2 Champions


This is the second Championship for Jake Vernon, Vance Catiln and Zach Bonvillian

Rumors of a Brute Force protest

Indianapolis - A video from a undisclosed source has surfaced on the Internet. The video is part of a longer clip put together by the Brute Force video department showing the phantom foul calls by Deemer's Dream Team player Jake Vernon. The clip show a horrible call in which Vernon shoots the ball and after the ball clangs off the rim calls a foul. The video clearly shows that the defender never touched him while he was shooting.

League commissioner Alan Mowrey said, "I have not received any formal notice of protest from Brute Force, until I do this is mute subject".

Deemer's Dream Team advances to the PFOL Finals

Indianapolis - Tuesday's night semifinal game between Abusement Park and Deemer's Dream Team came down to wire. But in the end, Abusement Park failed to come up with the big shots down the stretch while Deemer's Dream hit shots when it counted. Deemer's Dream Team advances to the PFOL finals by hanging on to a 43-42 win.


Down by 1 point with less than a minute left, Jake Vernon found himself with the ball. Without even thinking about his current 0-14 shooting slump in the game, Vernon launched a three point shot over Dave Neff. Much like many of Vernon's previous shots, the ball didn't hit the rim. The only difference with this shot was it went through the rim and hit nothing but net. That shot ended up being the game winning shot.

Abusement Park had a couple of chances to either tie the game or take the lead late in the game. Marcus Hall missed a game tying free throw with 50 seconds left, Alex Montanago air balled a wide open 3-pointer with 18 seconds left, and Dave Neff misses a running layup at the buzzer.

Deemer's Dream will have it's hands full when they face the high powered offense of Brute Force who led the league in team scoring and put up 81 points last week. "43 points? Please, we had 43 at halftime in our last game. They better figure out a way to score more points or else it's gonna get ugly quick", said Jason McGuinness.

Pictures of Deemer's Dream vs Abusement Park

Vernon got into Montagano's head by elbowing his Adam's Apple on a layup attempt.



Richie Smith lead us team to a victory



Stacy Paetz held Jake Vernon to 1-14 shooting.

Kyle Krol playing his patent defense

Richie Smith was held without a 3 pointer but still lead his team in scoring

Alex knocking down a wide open 3.

Marcus Hall rejecting shot at the rim.

Vance Catlin had his hands full keeping Hall out of the lane

Hall spinning baseline.

McAlister's Deli Game Summary

Brute Force and Front Office Legends were missing 2 of their top players. Simpson for Brute Force and Sullivan for the Front Office Legends. Despite missing 2 of the top scorers, the team put up huge offensive numbers in the first semi final game of the PFOL 2 playoffs.

Brute Force used a combination of speed, "brute force" and timely defense to run the Front Office Legends off the court in a 81-69 blowout. The final score does not indicate how lopsided this match up was.

Alan Mowrey got Brute Force off to a fast start by hitting two 3 pointers. Mowrey finished with a career high 36 points and 7 rebounds. Player of the week Sam Elmore had a break out game with 10 points and 20 rebounds.

Front Office Legends commitment to a Phoenix Suns style offense played right into the hands of Brute Force. "We prefer to run and gun but we can play any style you want, we can run with you or if you want to bang we'll bang with you" said Sam Elmore.

Troy Brokl lead Front Office Legends with 25 points and 13 rebounds.

Brute Force plays the winner of next weeks Abusement Park-Deemer's Dream Team match up.

Playoff Game 1 - Brute Force vs Front Office Legends

Everyone had to wait for Troy to get done with his pregame dance



Boehner fought a life threatening illness and played huge minutes for BF.



Elrod broke a PFOL record with four 3 pointers. Most ever made by a female player.

Troy Brokl was on fire from outside hitting five 3's

Alan Mowrey dropped 36 on Troy

Jason McGuinness got to the rim whenever he wanted

Jake Vernon doing some scouting in case his team makes it to the Finals

Week 5

The regular season of PFOL 2 ended Tuesday with Brute Force dismantling Front Office Legends 81-60. With the win Brute Force shares the best record in the league with Abusement Park. Abusement Park takes the league title however, due to a head to head tie breaker.

5 of the 6 players for Brute Force scored in double figures on Tuesday. Jon Rangel led the way with 17 points and 20 rebounds. Front Office Legends fell to 2-2 on the season and will be the #3 seed as they will be matched up against the same Brute Force team who claims the #2 seed.

“We are extremely confident against them”, said Jon “Manu” Rangel. “We feel like if we didn’t screw around in the first half we could have put 100 on them - they can't stop us".

While the regular season has end, the playoff matchups are not set yet. That is because next week McAlister’s Deli and Deemer’s Dream Team will meet in a one game playoff to determine which team will be the #4 seed in the playoffs.

“Vernon wanted it and now he’s going to get it. I guarantee at least a 20 point victory,” said Edmound Elzy.

Pictures from Week 5

Elrod wide open and knocks down a jumper.


Rost had a breakout performance with 28 points and 9 rebounds


Mowrey playing defense for the first time this season

This was the BEST block in PFOL history. Forney rejecting Boehner.

Boehner redeemed himself by knocking down 5 three pointers

Not sure what happened here.

Playoff Scenarios

After a 4 week break (scheduling conflicts) PFOL returns Tuesday for the last week of the regular season.

Here are the possible playoff scenarios:


If McAlister’s Deli (1-2) wins tomorrow, they make the playoffs as the #4 seed and Deemer’s Dream Team (1-3) is eliminated. If McAlister’s Deli loses, they are eliminated and Deemer’s Dream Team will be the #4 seed due to a head to head tie breaker.

If Front Office Legends (2-1) beats Brute Force (2-1), they will be the #1 seed overall. If Brute Force wins and Abusement Park (2-1) loses, they will be the #1 seed.

If both Brute Force and Abusment Park both win, then Abusment Park would be the #1 seed due to a head to head tie breaker.

If both Front Office Legends and Abusement Park win, Front Office Legends would be the #1 seed due to a head to head tie breaker.

PFOL sideline reporter on Richie Smith's unbelievable 2nd half

Alex Montangano hits a game winner

McAlister's Deli Game Summary - Week 3

Deemer's Dream Team - 63
McAlister's Deli - 57

Both teams came into Tuesday's game looking for their first win of the season. Things looked good for McAlister's Deli as they built a 16 point lead at 45-29 early in the second half.

Then Richie Smith took over. Smith hit 3 three pointers in a row as his team went on an amazing 18-0 run to go up 47-45. Deemer's Dream Team never trailed again winning 63-57.

"The basket looked like a hula-hoop. I felt like everything I threw up was going in" said Smith. "This was the first time I have played since our loss in the finals last season, I'm just glad I had my stroke still".

Elzy had 22 and Eric Flatt had 12 points and 18 rebounds in the loss.

Vance Catlin scored 19 points and grabbed 13 rebounds and Richie ended up with 16 and 10.

Abusement Park - 48
Brute Force - 46

Alex Montagano hit a three pointer with .04 seconds left to give Abusement Park a 48-46 win over Brute Force. In his PFOL debut, Marcus Hall scored 12 points and grabbed 10 rebounds.

Abusement Park needed Montagano's shot after they found themselves down by 1 after Jason McGuinness scored a layup with 12 seconds left.

Brute Force struggled to get good looks all night and had a league high 21 turnovers.

After grabbing 15 rebounds in week 2, Jason McGuinness didn't grab one rebound in week 3.
"I was shocked when I saw the score sheet. I can't believe he didn't get one board. Even with this loss I still think we are the best team in the league and once we get a few more games played together we are going to be tough to beat", said Alan Mowrey