Hood College sports teams participate in annual Midnight Madness event

By Aaron Heller //

Hood student athletes competed in games of tug-of-war and doughnut-eating contests during Midnight Madness, an annual event that highlights the men’s and women’s basketball teams.

The event was held in the Ronald J. Volpe Athletic Center, inside the Woodsboro Bank Arena, on Oct. 18. 

The night started with the basketball players, one by one, running out of the tunnel hyping up the crowd by throwing mini basketballs in the stands, waving their arms up and down and senior guard, Garrison Linton, recording his senior entrance with his cell phone.

Everyone in attendance watched each team scrimmage. The highlight of the scrimmage was when sophomore guards Kullen Robinson and Karron Mallory battled it out in an offensive barrage of three-point makes.

“We are roommates so being able to go back and forth was something we needed, we always go at each other at practice, that’s my rival in one v. one but that’s my brother,” Mallory said. “I feel we brought some of the energy that the crowd wanted to see and two years in a row we have went at it and I would say we did not disappoint.”

Following that, the tug-of-war competition began between the women’s teams on campus and between men’s baseball and men’s volleyball.

Field hockey won two out of their three games with their only loss being against women’s softball. Men’s baseball cruised past the men’s volleyball team. 

Everyone’s favorite event came at the end of the night—the Krispy Kreme doughnut eating competition. The rules are simple: the fastest person to eat an entire box of glazed doughnuts wins.

Five members participated in the competition, including returning champion Finn Scott-Daniels. Scott-Daniels was very confident going into the contest this year.

“I thought I was the frontrunner this year being the defending champion,” he said.

However, the tables turned quickly when Shawn Graber was picked to join the competition. Graber defeated Scott-Daniels by eating 12 doughnuts—about one more than Scott-Daniels.

“It was fun and cool to see people cheering me on,” Graber said. “My goal was to take the belt and I achieved it. I’m a dawg.”