The 2002 Series at the Sac was largely forgettable. Mainly because the entire 2002 season was forgettable as well. Thanks to rookies who didn't want to, well, play any games, the league limped through the regular season, piling on forfeits upon forfeits seemingly every gameday. Only a few people topped 20 homeruns, and the league leader in ABs held a mere 164 (thatta boy, Darnell).

The Horsemen were the biggest beneficiary of forfeit wins, and took the first seed. The Holy Whites finished in second and took on the third place Wifflolution squad. In two quick, rather uneventful games (5-3, 1-0), the Whites swept Wiffolution and headed onto the finals, where the Horsemen were ready. After dropping Game 1, 4-1, the Horsemen came back, winning Games 2 and 3 by scores of 6-3 and 4-1. The Whites came back, winning Game 4, 5-4, setting up our first-ever Game 5. On that day, Seth Yoder went 3-6 and tossed two shutout innings as the Horsemen won the series with a 6-0 shutout.

And thanks to a 1.14 ERA and a .296 batting average that was way above his standard, Seth Yoder took home the Series MVP award.

The 2001 Series at the Sac was famous for two things: It featured arguably the best-played series as well as probably the best all-round individual performance in playoff history.

After breezing through the regular season with a league-best 26-9 record, Scott Carmichael and the Holy Whites waited for the winner of the Horsemen (20-15) Wiffolution (15-20) matchup. And that's where it got fun.

The Horsemen beat Wiffolution in Game 1 by a score of 1-0, but Wiffolution came back later in the week to even up the series. Casey Sylvester hit a huge go-ahead homerun, digging a Creighton fastball off the ground to deep left center, giving Wiffolution the 3-2 win. Immediately after, Game 3 was played, and it was another great one. Featuring timely hits, Eric Christensen miraculously getting out of a bases-loaded, 3-2 count jam, late in the game with a one-run lead, and arguably the most tense playoff atmosphere ever seen at The Sac, the Horsemen came out on top and headed to face to the Whites.

And it was there that Scott Carmichael took over, putting on an awesome display that left no doubt who would be named Playoff MVP. After easily taking the first two games, the Horsemen faced a sweep in the finals, but battled back to win Game 3, 6-5. They then promptly lost Game 4, 7-5, and the Whites were our first-ever team champions. Scott finished the series 12-28 (.429) with a spectacular 8 homeruns on top of a playoff-leading 1.14 ERA and playoff record .087 opponent's average.

Year 2000 saw the final "individual-based" playoff formation as the very next year we headed to team rules. Back in 2000 and the season before that, players would play on randomly selected teams throughout the season and pick up a win in the event their randomly selected team won. After the regular season was over, the top 8 players (ranked by Win %) would form the playoff teams. Player #1 and Player #8 would team up, Player #2 and Player #7, etc, etc. Two semi-final best of three matchups would precede the best of three final.

In 2000, it was a story of contrast. On one end of the semi's, Greg Creighton and Scott Carmichael teamed up to sweep Casey Sylvester and Terry Creighton, both wins by a score of 1-0, thanks to two separate Carmichael solo shots.

Over on the other side, Mike Walsh and Joey Creighton dropped Game 1 to Nate Stuempfig and Seth Yoder by the ridiculous count of 15-0. You read that right. Game 2 followed immediately, but this time, it was Walsh and Creighton heating up as they won, 10-1. Yes, you read that right. Game 3 was played on an early morning before classes, with Walsh and Creighton winning, 6-2.

Walsh and Creighton then kept the pitching success going, somehow shutting out a Carmichael team twice in a row (1-0, 3-0) to take the title. Greg Creighton gave up all four runs. This was also known as Mike Walsh's "coming out party." He was a rookie in 2000 and despite a decent 8-6 record in the regular season, posted rather poor numbers. He then went on to hit .356 in the playoffs, with 5 HRs and 12 RBIs, and then topped that during the 2001 regular season, where he hit .355 with 33 HRs (and won another title).

The first-ever playoff series for the league was a special one, as not only we got up with the times, but we saw some outstanding games and performances that would set the bar for playoffs to come.

The duo of Matt Holmberg and Joey Creighton made costly errors in their Game 1, 7-1 loss to Scott Carmichael and Mark Montgomery. A few days later though, Joey hit a game-winning two run shot in a great 4-3 series-tying win, and then he and Holmberg tosses a 3-0 shutout to move onto the finals.

On the other side, things got interesting. Jeff Morrison and Greg Creighton beat James Vassar and Terry Creighton in an ugly first game by a score of 6-4. Later, Vassar and Creighton would come out on top of the league's first-ever extra-inning playoff game, as Terry took Morrison deep to seal a 2-1 nailbiter.

Jeff would get his revenge though, as he posted his (at that point) best game ever, going 9-11 with 10 RBIs in a 13-3 blowout win that sent him and Greg to the finals. They would not fare as well there though as after a forfeit win, they dropped two straight, both by scores of 4-2, giving Holmberg and Creighton the first-ever Series at the Sac championship.