Boasters League round
8~~
Not that I would say “it’s
in the bag”, but barring a horrendous showing next week, the Wardogs are set to take the first round
honors as we go into the half way point of the season. Yes, they are second on
the ladder right now, but the Fire Birds
have the last round bye and will need to be extraordinarily active with their makeup
matches to keep any hope of ending up on top.
The Thanksgiving week gave everybody time to get some much
needed matches completed, and just about every team did pretty well in that
department. The order of the standings didn’t change at all from round 7, everybody
just about kept pace with each other. Four teams picked up either 38 or 39
points, another three between 32 and 34, and the one team that lagged behind
the rest was Paddy’s Dropshots who
only managed to accumulate 24. That’s only 6 points more than Mongoose who had the bye.
In terms of bonus points, Fire Birds did collect the most this week with 13, Butter Nutz the least with 7. Space Geckos still lead the league in
total bonus points with 92, The Nicker
Ballers have the least with 62. The
Nicker Ballers are 29 points behind the Space Geckos… hmmmm….
Some highlights of the round: Paul Ward’s (Wardogs) magnificent
unbeaten run came to an end last night as he was taken out 2-1 by Blake Ellis (Winky-Dinks). It’s not exactly a terrible loss, Blake has also only
lost one match this season as well. Chris
Van Tol (Nicker Ballers) held
off the human squash bazooka Bret
Williams (Butter Nutz) for a 2-1
hard-fought win; Brendan Fossee (Winky-Dinks) had to hustle back from
one game down to keep Maggie Durant
(Wardogs) at bay for a 2-1 victory; and
Esther Thomas (Space Geckos) picked up her first win of the season as she
outplayed Tom Bergh (Foss Nation) 2-1.
So with 1 round to play, the deadline of December 13
looming, Christmas festivities ramping up, everybody (hopefully) scrambling to
make sure they have their minimum 4 matches completed, it should be an
interesting 10 days. With all that in mind, I implore each and every one of you
to be flexible with your scheduling
and communicative with your fellow
members who are trying to contact you for a match time. It gets very old very
quickly when I hear that people are not returning e-mails or phone calls. Forfeits
are very difficult to get from me, so please make every effort to get on court.
