Boasters League round
8~~
So it’s really turned into a two-horse race leading into the
final round of the first half. “Space
Geckos” lead the “Butter Nutz”
by 14 points which sounds like a solid buffer, but they have the unenviable
‘reward’ of having to sit out the last round. “Butter Nutz” will no doubt make that up easily. The good news for
the “Space Geckos” is that they have
two weeks to get in as many make-up
matches as possible. They have been doing well in that category, but with
Thanksgiving in the mix, the task will be made more difficult.
The “Wardogs” have
given themselves an outside chance of taking top spot by picking up a week’s
best 35 points and are within arm’s reach of the top two teams. They will need
to push very hard to overtake them though, I am sure their team captains are
already e-mailing their players to get on court! Strangely though, the “Wardogs” – who played against “Vivio’s” yesterday – did not play a
single match all evening. They picked up some bonus points and had 3 results
come in early, but between the 2 teams only 9 players turned up – both “Space Geckos” and “Butter Nutz” had more representation than that on their own.
The “Wardogs” and
“Butter Nutz” coincidentally have to
play each other in round 9. Does that help or hurt?
The team trying to avoid ending up last (or are they?) is “Foss Nation”. They will need a season
best performance in round 9 to avoid that dubious honor as – like last week –
they remain 13 points behind 8th position. They actually play that
team in round 9 (“Nick at Night”) so
it is a very good opportunity to catch up. If, of course, they can get on
court.
Activity last night was low, not helped by the wonderful
weather we are getting. Who doesn’t want
snow in November? Buffalo? From those who did brave the wintery blast, here a
couple of noteworthy results: Kelly
Smythe (“The Nicker Ballers”)
scored her second win of the season in a not-so-easy 2-1 victory over Lauren Kirchner (“Nick at Night”). It’s great to see more women getting involved in
the program. That being said, I have to mention Liz McClure (“Butter Nutz”)
who beat Peter Fromm (“Foss Nation”) 2-1. Liz has only dropped
one match so far and leads the “Butter
Nutz” in points. Sante is no doubt very proud.
Speaking of Sante, he missed out on his chance to display
his fashion prowess against Andy Adamo
(“Foss Nation”). His planned
stripping of his winning boasters league shirts after each game (he had them all on at once) couldn’t come to
fruition as Andy had to retire injured after the first game. We wish Andy a
full and quick recovery, and we look forward to their next encounter and
Sante’s ‘vogue’ statement.
So next week is off as we for some reason celebrate a
strange holiday that involves turkeys and pumpkin pie and football (?). It’s a
great time to get matches in. The standings by the time round 9 even starts may
be drastically different to what they are now.
