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Playoffs Week 4:

Captain Sev Brown’s ‘I’m An Eggplant’ knew coming into Week Four that they would need to knock off the two seed and the one seed to earn a chance to dance with the three seed and complete an improbable, and likely unprecedented title-snatching upset trifecta. Sure enough, Zach Salt led a successful ‘stun and done’ run through back-to-back bracket busters, setting up a Salt v Salt showdown in the Final, with the six seed Cinderellas hoping to cap their crazy Cup run with another pair of underdog overcomes…

I’m really sorry, gang, I am completely out of time and energy for recaps this week. Here are the short and sweet recaps:

Nick Vacchio continued his torrid summer campaign with a goal in the first and a second in the second, but Zach Salt and Luke Wolmer scored less than a minute apart in the latter half of the third, and Salt cashed in the game-winner just :32 into OT to complete the comeback coup and send Captain Tyler Winstead’s Olive to the elimination bin, 3-2.

Knocking off the two seed was stunning enough, but Purple would not rest on their lofty laurels against top-seeded Teal. It was POTW Zach Salt again to give Purple a 1-0 lead late in the first, and (incredibly enough) that was ALL of the scoring in this one. Chris Tran (17/17) was a fill-in phenom, recording the shutout, and outdueling Sean Kelly (17/18) to make the 1-0 lead the final score and send the Cinderalla six seeds on to a date with Red in the Summer League Final.