DECENT TURNOUT FROM ALL TEAMS

Boasters League round 4~~

It was a busy night on the league courts – I finally crept out the door just before 8pm last night and I believe 3 of the 4 courts were still in use. That’s a great sign and hopefully a trend that continues. Even better, was that the turnout was pretty evenly spread amongst the 8 playing teams. With the exception to Vivio’s who had the bye, all teams picked up between 23 and 29 points. Because of the parity, the standings this week weren’t all that affected (as in no one separated themselves) … except for the idle Vivio’s of course. They picked up 7 points in makeup matches, but dropped from second spot last week all the way to 6^th this week. That sounds terrible, but putting it into context, of the 4 teams that have had the bye so far, Vivio’s have the best score.

Mongoose have increased their lead to 15 points atop the ladder, Butter Nutz take over second spot, with Wardogs making the biggest move this week from 5^th to 3^rd. All at the expense of Vivio’s. But with all the teams pretty well bunched together, I expect the standings to be shuffling around rather regularly. As far as bonus points go this week, all teams picked up between 9 and 12 of them with Over Served being the outlier with just 7. Over Served has the least overall as well. They are last.

Some noteworthy results worth mentioning… John Mann (Over Served) somehow managed to beat Mack Gembis (Butter Nutz) 2-1, with the last two games being 15-14. John was delighted that it was a boasters league match and not a best-of-5 box match as he very much doubted he could have kept up the pace any longer. Mack for his part, went straight back on court to run some more.

Gordie Maitland (Nicker Ballers) took down Mike McCuish (Foss Nation) 3-0 which on the surface doesn’t sound overly exciting, but according to Gordie, he pulled out his world class backhand volley drop that was clearly unreturnable, even for pros. I suggested we film it and out it on You Tube for all the world to see, for no doubt it would instantaneously go viral, but he didn’t want to divulge his secret weapon to the world and future opponents.

Other commendable efforts to report…: Dewey Steffen (Nicker Ballers) picks up his first win of the season, taking care of business 2-1 against Ted Morris (Foss Nation); Andrew Peleman (Nick at Night) overcame the determined John Stelter (Wardogs) with just a little too much speed and took the 2-1 victory; and Jon Diewald (Winky-Dinks) gets his second win of the season, pinching 2 of 3 games from Kyle Keppen (Mongoose). So happy was Jon with his win, he rewarded himself with a new racquet!

Round 5 next week (yes – that’s half way through!) and then a week off as the Women’s Pro Squash Classic comes to town. Time to make up some missed matches,

numbers are picking up, but we still have 13 players yet to step on court. That’s down significantly from the 29 last week, (yay!) but this should be zero.

And any predictions on the Lions v Giants this weekend? I am still riding on the Lions wagon so I think they’ll win, but he wheels are starting to wobble a little. A must win as far as I see it…