Voodoo - 2008 Co-Rec National Champions
Tournament Co-MVP: Ann "Loafy" Flis and Craig "Long Ball" Ballensky

The Hitmen wrapped up the 2007-2008 season on two high notes. They finished in the final four at the North Americans and took home a National Championship in co-rec. The Hitmen once again grew as an organization as they brought back some familiar faces like Kirk, James, Luke, Greg and Bing. They re-vamped Hitmen II and found a lot of success along the way. The new faces on the team are Jonathan Jaunty, Jeff Nitz, Josh Brehmer and Bud Bruggerman. They all made an immediate impact to help Hitmen II accomplish what it set out to do. They won the Bloomington Winter Fete tournament, won the Bloomington outdoor league and took 3rd in D state, an accomplishment that reclassified them to C next year. Pretty soon they will be playing at the upper level.

Team Voodoo, a subsidiary team of the Hitmen, won the 2008 Co-Rec National Championships. This was a combination of the old Kamikazee team from 2000 and some new faces. Ann Flis and Craig Ballensky were named co-MVP of the co-rec team and Nicky Sneen was named Player of the Game twice. Team Voodoo started as underdogs and tied Superior Machine 2-2 in pool only to face them again in the championship. Ann made many great saves to keep voodoo in the championship game when Superior had the momentum. Craig scored late in the 2nd half behind the red line to seal the 4-2 victory. Great job to everyone!

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Hitmen in the News
I was gently reminded that the link to the Sun Current article was removed from the site. Here you go: Richfield is broomball headquarters  by John Sherman.

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