Team Scoring Record Smashed During Super Scoreball Corporate Rematch 

Players watch as a good three-point shot by the Astros is about to enter the tower during Tuesday's record setting game in which the Holy Grail scored 71 points against the New World Astros. 

AUBURN, MA – Monty Python’s Holy Grail team, led by field commander Matthew Sroka, and veteran scoreball players Rick Rearick and Tod Masterman, blasted past the New World Sport Astros 71-40 Tuesday night, setting a new scoring record along the way. The game took place at the Teamworks Sportsplex in Auburn, Massachusetts. The previous single team scoring record was established by college-level players during 2004 at the Habitat for Soccer and Sports in Uxbridge. That game was decided during the final seconds, and ended with a score of 60-59.  Tuesday’s night’s corporate contest took just over an hour and a half to complete. It featured a fully-integrated offensive and defensive effort by the Holy Grail team. The victory was their second win over the Astros since 2006 in a new world sport where players score points by kicking the ball into the soccer net, or tossing it into one of the towers attached to each side of the net.  Despite trailing at the end of each fifteen-minute campaign, the Astros never gave up. Both teams fought for scoring supremacy, but it was the Astros who had the greater difficulty stopping the Holy Grail’s gifted Kevin Pickett. He was on fire all evening long, pouring in successful tower shots from every spot on the artificial turf, and setting the stage for several Hex scoring opportunities. The Hex opportunity is a bonus scoring situation involving a strategy of scoring in a particular manner on each trip down the field. Teams which employ the Hex strategy successfully earn extra opportunities to score points. When the red-hot, carefully aiming Pickett and the Grail’s supporting offensive machine weren’t setting up tower shots and kicks on the net, teammate Matt Sroka kept a watchful eye on incoming scoring attempts by the Astros, allowing only three successful kicks on the net all evening. Pickett finished with thirty points, establishing himself as the evening’s high scorer during the record-setting battle. Jonathon Jones, Kimberly Bastarache, Chris Connelly, Jason Nourse, and Jay Bertheame of the Astros were led by field commander Preston Wilmot.