 Hockey forward Brian Boyle made it happen at the pie eating contest during Tuesday´s volleyball game, but didn´t make it happen fast enough, losing to basketball´s Craig Smith. [Click to enlarge]
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Call it a Clash of the Boston College Titans.
Or the Power Gym Pie-a-Palooza.
There are plenty of big sporting events happening all over BC this year. Florida State was certainly big. Duke may be even bigger on Feb. 1. And the Beanpot is always big.
But it doesn't get much bigger than Tuesday night's display during the volleyball team's match-up with Maryland.
For those of you very confused right now, you obviously deleted the latest BC sports marketing e-mail, assuming it was reminding you yet again to get to football games on time - shame on you.
Instead of another reminder, the e-mail set up an eating battle between the giants - literally - of BC athletics: Football behemoth Mathias Kiwanuka, hockey hitter Brian Boyle, basketball bruiser Craig Smith, and women's basketball skyscraper Kathrin Ress.
All told, they were throwing around some size, weighing in at an average of 6 feet-6 inches and 248 lbs.
But this wasn't a test of speed, size, or even skill. It was all about appetite.
The rules were simple enough. Eat as much of a Boston cream pie as you can, with your hands tied behind your back, in two minutes. The hungriest Eagle would win an iPod Nano for one lucky Superfan - but more importantly, bragging rights.
And the contestants weren't taking this as some pointless competition. This was about pride as much as anything.
"I talked to [Boyle] in the locker room earlier and he's mentally focused," said teammate Joe Pearce. "Now it's just gonna come down to the physical part."
"[Kathrin] didn't eat a lot at dinner last night and didn't get dessert," women's basketball head coach Cathy Inglese said. "I guess she was preparing."
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