BETTER SHOWING FOR WEEK 2

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 5^th through 9^th, 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 7^th – 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…