Wednesday night volleyball intramurals came to an end in a competitive game between “Sigma Pi Black” and “Smells Like Friction.”

Intramural team, Sigma Pi Black, capped off its volleyball season with a 2-0 victory over Smells Like Friction. According to IMLeagues, Sigma Pi Black had an undefeated season going 6-0.

Dipen Patel from Smells Like Friction is a graduate student and kinesiology major at Eastern. He is also the graduate assistant for the volleyball team. Patel said his team is made up of all graduate students.

“I’m from California and I played out there then got into coaching then I came here and they asked me if I wanted to be on the IMs team and I said yeah,” Patel said. “It’s fun so far we’ve played spikeball, football, dodgeball, soccer, badminton, we do it all.”

On its way to the championship, Smells Like Friction had a first-round BYE and played the winner of “NewEra” and “Panthers. NewEra came out on top in that matchup.

One of the members of Sigma Pi Black’s team was the president of Sigma Pi, Branden Rosenbusch. Rosenbusch is currently a Kinesiology major at Eastern.

“This is my third year at EIU, I transferred in and since I’ve got here I’ve been doing IMs, every IM pretty much. I had a volleyball scholarship at the school I came from and didn’t end up liking it as much as I thought I would, so I came here and don’t play sports here so I figured I’d play IMs and I just absolutely love it,” Rosenbusch said.

Sigma Pi Black defeated “SAE Gold” in the second round and Sigma Nu Black in the finals to win the Fraternity Championship.

Sigma Pi Black also had a first-round BYE.

He went on to talk about his fraternity’s involvement in intramurals.

“Yeah, We’re all about IMs and we love doing them, we are all about the competition. Actually, we have a bunch of rivalries but we always come out on top,” said Rosenbusch

Rosenbusch was very proud of what they had accomplished and the production of his team throughout the season.

“I think we had a great season,” he said. “We didn’t lose one game we might have lost one or two sets but we always came out on top. The last game was actually a pretty tough one, we only played with five people for the All Campus Championship and ended up winning it so it was pretty fun for us and a pretty big win.”

Eric Hendrix can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]