Liberty University Paintball

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The Turf field is being worked on this week!  It should be ready soon...

January 8, 2009

Well it it's been a while, but Liberty has had a very busy season so far. With the completion of its own tournament field on campus, the members of the Liberty University paintball team have been working hard to prepare for this season. Liberty made the jump from Class AA to Single A this season, While the teams focus is Class single A there is still a AA team. "It's definitely been a learning experience so far. We've show a lot of potential and I think in the future we will be able to play much more consistently. Xball is still new to a lot of the team. so with continued event experience and practice we have the potential to do really well" says Paul Davidson (Assistant Coach)

Class A - Liberty made their single A debut October 4th at event #1 for the Mid Atlantic Conference. They started the day out with a devastating 13-1 win over the University of Tennessee, The boys from LU fell short in their next 2 matches falling to West Virginia University 8-3 and finishing it up with a close 8-5 loss to Virginia Tech. "LU came out strong for their first class A event ever, showing why they are among the top competitors in the NCPA" -Coach Hoglund

Despite the weather the energy was high kicking off the second event for the Mid Atlantic Conference. Libertys first match was against Ohio where Liberty jumped to an early lead. Ohio fought back and tied it up at 6 all with only seconds to spare frocing the match into overtime, LU lost. Our boys second match was set up against the University of Tennessee, After event #1 UT was out for revenge. Raining down 10-2 defeat over Liberty. LU regrouped for their final match against WV winning 6-4. "the team played hard showing that they can play well against any team in any condition" -Coach Hoglund

Class AA- LU played their first AA event at the Miami Open held at All american paintball park in Pennsylvania. Liberty made it through prelims while only dropping two games. Semi finals had LU facing off against Oswego, Pittsburgh and Ohio. Liberty beat both Pitt and Ohio while falling to Oswego, Oswego only had two players remaining. Despite the loss in Semi finals LU found themselves in the top 4 moving onto Finals. Finals consisted of 3 matches agaisnt Ohio, Miami and Oswego. Liberty fought hard but could not quite gett anything going in finals earning them a 4th place finish overall.

Liberty University now boasts its very own regulation paintball facility. The new facility located atop Candlers Mountain consists of 2 regulation Xball fields with space in between them for a future structure. The University has generously provided the team with two sets of PSP Xball fields. The Fields are now up and running, however there are still many small things that need to be resolved before the field will be open for public use. If you would like to more information as to how might become a member of the club or the team please email Todd Hoglund at THoglund@liberty.edu If you are inquiring about joining the team please also please select the "Join team" link and submit your information

April 21, 2008: Liberty paintball returned this Monday from a weekend at nationals. Liberty actually has played two tournaments since our last update. In the frost bowl liberty fought hard and came out with a second place finish with WV taking first. In our fourth event liberty sent its B line so that A could afford nationals. The 5th place finish is the best any B line at liberty has ever taken and they only missed semifinals by 12 points.

At nationals Liberty played great. They dropped only 2 games in prelims and went into ochofinals in 4th place. Liberty's second day went equally good, going undefeated until semifinals where they dropped 2 games against Virginia Tech whom they had soundly beaten in quarter finals. This knocked liberty out of the run for first and put it in a battle against ISU redbirds. Liberty won both games which gave them a 3rd place finish in the nation. Congrats again to the liberty A team Paul Davidson, Brian Davidson, Dan McCready, Dave McCready and Pete Ortu. And a special thanks to our pit crew and staff Coach Greg Hudson, Coach Scott Hawkins, Dave Markland, alternate Jason Kohout, and Pod King Chris Jenkins .