Kowalczyk, 40, one afternoon from a third Iron Jug

Keegan Kowalczyk already has two of these, won in 2006 and 2015. A man does not get to choose when the last one comes. At forty he is playing like somebody who suspects this might be it. It did not, in the end, come down to him alone — it never does. But the Pikemen won it 30-28, and a fortnight from now nobody will be able to describe this season without describing Sunday.