Boasters League round
2~~
Yes, it was a busier night in the court than week 1, but
still not where we need to be. Plenty of squash to go around, but a significant
chunk of it was pick-up games rather than scheduled league matches. Overall,
more points were picked up this week as compared to last week, but that wasn’t
particularly difficult to do considering last week people were still very much
in vacation mode.
For round 2, Over
Served outperformed the rest picking up 36 points and slightly increasing
their lead to 7 points over Butter Nutz.
Mongoose
– who sat out week 1 - were next in line with 31 points and have already
overtaken Foss Nation on the
standings. It is early in the season, so I wouldn’t read too much into that, only 8 points separate 5th through 9th,
but falling behind the eight ball so soon generally does not end well.
Vivio’s
understandably were the team to drop the most this week – 4 places to 7th
– but they had the bye. They still picked up 10 points in makeup matches from
week 1, and in reality are in a pretty decent position. It’s the teams that are
just a couple of points above them, namely Nicker
Ballers, Wardogs, and even Paddy’s Dropshots that need to be
careful. Their bye week is yet to come.
Emphasizing some personal results for the evening… Colin Bayer (Over Served) was bitterly disappointed with his 2-1 win over Zac MacVoy (Foss Nation).
He can’t believe he dropped a point let alone a game. Zac I am sure was equally
dissatisfied with his 1-2 loss, especially since his brother Ryan has beaten
Colin sometime in the past.
Brian Ellison (Nicker Ballers) on the other hand, was actually
rather chuffed with his 2-1 victory over Sandy
Selinger (Mongoose). Being on
the losing side, Sandy was - as expected - a tad disgruntled considering that
although losing 2 games he ended up with more overall points than Brian.
Chris Moyer (Nicker Ballers) appeared perfectly accepting
of the fact that he was beaten fair and square by the ever-hustling Ian Edwards (Mongoose) 2-1. Chris’ praise for Ian went so far as to mention he
wished he was more like him… Now, just to be clear, I am sure Chris was talking
about Ian’s court coverage ability. At least I hope he was.
What will week 3 throw at us? (Probably more snow…) Nicker Ballers sit the week out, Mongoose and Vivio’s go at it, and as active as both teams are they could really
help each other out. Can Foss Nation
pull themselves out of the gutter? Can Colin
Bayer win 33-0? Will the Detroit Lions hire a head coach who knows what they
are talking about? Will it even matter? Stay tuned for the answers to these
questions and more, same Bat-Channel, same Bat-Time…
