MONGOOSE UNSTOPPABLE

Boasters League round 6~~

Considering it was the Wednesday after the DAC Classic (report coming soon…), court activity was unexpectedly higher than year’s past. The Classic hangover can certainly last at least a week – Stu and I wish we could take the entire month off to catch up on sleep and reset our numb brains – and there would be many of you no doubt still detoxing and trying to remember what exactly transpired over the weekend.

So it was nice to see the courts used non-stop for most of the evening. Once again though, Mongoose are showing how it’s done and are just pouring it on compared to the rest of the league. Easily the best performers of the week, they scored 35 points, 9 points better than the second best Winky-Dinks, and thus increasing their overall lead to 34. With 3 weeks to go before the finals, and despite a bye week to sit through in week 8, Mongoose will finish in the top 2 of the standings (and earning the first round pass in the play-offs) barring some absolute disaster of epic proportions. In order for them to come third, Butter Nutz need to catch up almost 50 points, and they also have a bye week to suffer through yet.

On the opposite end of the scale, Nick at Night have yet to reach the three digit mark of the season, averaging just over 18 points a week. Being that the last three teams will be eliminated from the finals, they need to cover a 31 point spread just to be in contention. Right now, they have the lowest amount of matches played, and the least amount of bonus points as well. Hardly a blueprint for success… but there are 3 weeks to change that!

On an individual standout performances for week 6…

Mack Gembis (Nicker Ballers) gets his first win of the half as he tried to give Brien Baker (Vivio’s) a heart attack. Brien is renowned for his attacking boasts, his defensive boasts, his return of serve boasts, his volley boasts, his drop-shot boasts, his lob boasts, his sleeping boasts, reverse boasts, straights boasts, crooked boasts, accidental boasts, kill boasts, warm-up boasts, off-court boasts and his beer boasts… but Mack kept on running them down. It did come down the wire, Mack took the third game 15-14 for a 2-1 win, forcing Brien to crawl off the court and collapse outside the court performing his “laying-on-the-back-heaving-boast” for good measure.

Paul Fershée (Winky-Dinks) remains undefeated for the half as the wily veteran out maneuvered the young legs of Rene Peleman (Butter Nutz) for a 2-1 victory; Matt Richter (Over Served) gets his third win of the half taking down Pete McGrath (Wardogs) 2-1; and Mike LoVasco (Nick at Night) etches a second notch into his win column after surviving the hustling style of Mike Petix (Mongoose) for a 2-1 triumph.

Heading into week 7, time is running out to get your matches completed. March 5 is the deadline (inclusive). Remember, that any scores coming in after the scores have been tallied and the finals schedule completed will not be taken into consideration. I tend to get at least 2 or 3 scores every season that are late. It is your responsibility to forward me those results on time.

The Wardogs have the bye next week, so they may suffer in the standings if they aren’t vigilant or proactive with their make-up matches. Will Brien Baker learn a new type of boast for next week? Will JB Peabody resort back to his secret weapon lobster shorts after suffering a 0-3 loss? Will the Mongoose players still receive an e-mail from Captain Huth threatening life and limb if they don’t keep up appearances despite their mammoth lead? Guess we’ll see what’s in store next week!