Boasters League round
6~
Probably the team that ended up in the best position after
round 6 was the one that didn’t even play! Winky
Dinks had the bye week which means everyone else had the chance to catch up
– which they did, but not by as much as they needed to. In make-up matches
alone, Winky Dinks picked up 19
points, which keeps them in second place tied with the Space Geckos. Now, they are the only team in the top 4 that have suffered
through the ‘bye’ week, putting them squarely in the driver’s seat to end up on
top of the standings after the first half of the season.
Space Geckos
performed the best on the score board this week picking up a total of 38 points
and closing the gap to the league leading Butter
Nutz to just 13. Just a hair behind the Geckos were the Nicker
Ballers with 37, and on the other end of the scale, Vivio’s were this week’s slackers with only 23 points. Bonus points
overall were down for round 6, and I’ll attribute it to the election hangover. A
large percentage of players apparently watched all night as CNN tortuously,
minute by minute, covered the voting numbers of every single county in the
country… fascinating viewing no doubt. Some members still hadn’t reached the
hangover stage however, not sure whether they were celebrating or drowning
sorrows, but either way in no condition to grace the squash court!
For those that did, it was a competitive evening. Dewey - Nana-nana-nana-nana,
Nana-nana-nana-nana... Batman! - Steffen (Space Geckos) had to deal with not only the crafty placement of his
opponent’s shots (Gus Ploss -Vivio’s)
but also the ear splitting “encouragement” of Gus’s team captain. Maybe the
cheering wasn’t quite loud enough (or too loud?) but Dewey kept his calm just
enough, throwing in his good deal of “Boo-Yahs!”
along the way, to take the 2-1 victory.
Andy
Adamo (Nicker Ballers) was
surprised to see how much JC Tibbitts
(Nick at Night) has improved
recently and was pushed all the way as he worked a lot harder than he was
expecting to, earning his 2-1 win. Tom
Bejin (Butter Nutz) picked up
his first win of the season with a steady enough display, taking out Mike McCuish (Mongoose) 2-1, and handing Mike is 3rd 2-1 loss so far.
Another first win of the season goes to Patrick
Petz (Nick at Night) who found
himself moving more freely which allowed him the place the ball more
consistently, as he pulled the 2-1 upset over Maggie Durant (Nicker
Ballers).
Round 7 has crept up on us very quickly. The good news is
that the league takes a rest the week of Thanksgiving, so it will give everyone
a chance to get a good amount of make-up matches in, and make sure you are
covered in your 5 match minimum in order to play in the second half… right? Butter Nutz may have a difficult time
holding on to top spot next week as they will be sitting this round out, can
the other teams take advantage? Complacency is your enemy.
