Labor Day: runnner-up, 5-2; 6-15 loss to Revolver in the finals Chain Lightning left Santa Cruz with work left to do after a finals loss, but buoyed by signs of a team progressing. Chain claimed the top seed in Pool A on the strength of a 4-1 record that included a 14-11 win over defending [...]

Champing at the bit after Hurricane Irene led to the cancellation of the Chesapeake Invitational last week, Chain Lightning heads all the way west this weekend for the 25th Labor Day Championships high in the hills of Santa Cruz, California. A nearly-complete roster of players for Chain (all but Dempsey, Gainer, Hammond, and Joel Wooten) [...]

Terminus: champs, 7-0; 13-7 over Cash Crop in the finals Chain Lightning successfully defended its home turf this weekend, capturing the Terminus title and starting the club season with an undefeated tourney. Saturday’s games: wins over Uproar, Madcow B, Hogan’s Heroes, and Brah Quarters: Chain over Six -Pack, Semis: Chain over Madcow Finals started well [...]

Tryouts are over and the roster has been set… New additions (7): Michael Arenson Elliott Erickson Sam Gainer* Grant Lindsley* Byron Liu Nicky Spiva Joel Wooten* *played on Chain previously Personnel losses (7): Taylor “Tree” Goforth, Will Moore, Brandon Perales, AJ Tiarsmith, Paul Vandenberg, Rob White, Josh “Zip” Ziperstein So, the club gets an infusion [...]

Chain X, consisting of current Chain Lightning players plus some tryouts for the 2011 season, got this year’s campaign off to a solid start with a win at Nashville’s May 14-15 Monkey Bowl tournament. The victory (paired with an alleged defense of last year’s dominating party win) stands in marked contrast to the spring 2010 [...]