The flags were flying and the people were screaming as this year's Rope Pull season kicked off Monday night at Pacer pond.

Pike, AGR and SigEp had victories in the first round of the fraternity division. The sisters of Zeta Phi Beta and Zeta Tau Alpha won in the first rounds of the sorority divisions. This year Zeta Phi Beta enters the pulls for the first time ever and was victorious in less than a minute.

Pi Kappa Alpha competed first against the brothers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. This regulation length pull ended with the brothers of Pike having inches of the tape on their side of the line. Pike will pull again on Wednesday at 5 p.m. against Phi Sigma Kappa.

Alpha Gamma Rho found no problem defeating the brothers of Kappa Alpha Order. The match ended with AGR’s first hole man having the tape in his hand. AGR’s next pull will be against SigEp on Wednesday at 5:25 p.m.

Sigma Phi Epsilon defeated the brothers of Alpha Tau Omega in less than regulation time. The gun was fired to end the match nearly ten minutes into the pull after SigEp’s second-hole man had the tape in his hand. SigEp will pull against the reigning victors of last year’s rope pull on Wednesday.

Kappa Alpha Order and Alpha Tau Omega will pull at 4 o’clock on Wednesday.

The sorority division grew this year as the sisters of Zeta Phi Beta and Delta Sigma Theta entered the rope pull competition.

The sisters of Zeta Phi Beta defeated Alpha Omicron Pi in the first round in a match that lasted roughly twenty seconds. Seconds after the whistle was blown, AOPi was pulled out of their holes. The back four AOPi sisters had all of the rope taken from them.

Alpha Delta Pi and Zeta Tau Alpha went head-to-head tonight for a close match, with Zeta Tau Alpha being declared the victors.

Zeta Phi Beta will pull Wednesday at 4:25 p.m. against the sisters of Chi Omega.

Zeta Tau Alpha pulls against the sisters of Delta Sigma Theta on Wednesday at 4:35.

Alpha Omicron Pi doesn’t pull again until Thursday when they pull against the loser of the Zeta Phi Beta and Chi Omega match.

Alpha Delta Pi will take on the loser between Zeta Tau Alpha and the sisters of Delta Sigma Theta.

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