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Bethel Host An­nual Manges VS Oak­wood Foot­ball Game

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Manges wins an­nual foot­ball game against Oak­wood  

Bethel Uni­ver­sity holds the tra­di­tional Manges vs. Oak­wood foot­ball game on the in­tra­mural fields, where any­one from ei­ther dorm can par­tic­i­pate.  

Pump­kin Spice, flan­nel, ap­ple cider, and the reek of testos­terone on the rugby fields at the an­nual men’s’ dorms foot­ball game.  

It seemed like oak­wood was at an ad­van­tage with some of the Manges play­ers trip­ping while run­ning through their ban­ner be­fore time had even started.  

As soon as the game be­gan, Manges towed their way through fresh-meat and scored points for their team only sec­onds in.  

Oak­wood’s six-year win­ning streak was de­stroyed along with their dig­ni­ties.  

The score by the mid­dle of the game was 15 to 6 with Manges in the lead.  

With Bethel’s fa­vorite hot heads on the field, each minute of the game was filled with en­ter­tain­ment and kept the crowd on the edge of their seats.  

Ju­nior and Res­i­den­tial As­sis­tant, Matthew Pietsch said “Over­all, it was a good match up!... There was a lot of chirp­ing and com­pet­i­tive fire brew­ing be­tween both sides, but it was a phys­i­cal [and] fun game!”  

The sec­ond half of the game be­ing more heated than the first, high­lights like  

Lo­gan Mar­shall, a fresh­man from Mar­lette Michi­gan, tack­led an up­per class­man and said he “so much fun” and will al­ways “re­mem­ber his friends cheer­ing him on”.  

With the Refs mon­i­tor­ing fairly, and both teams us­ing schol­ar­ship ath­letes… *cough*…  

Manges took the win with 22-6.