Boasters League round
7~~
I’ll probably rate last night as a mixed bag of ‘busyness’ depending
on what team you are on. If you are on Wardogs
or on Butter Nutz then the
evening was quite successful. Considering they played each other, then we shouldn’t
be surprised that they were the 2 most active on court. Nor should it be a surprise
that they picked up the most bonus points. They undoubtedly also drank the most
beer as well… just ask Matt DiDio and
Ryan MacVoy who were scheduled to
play each other but by the time a court opened up decided that it probably wasn’t
a smart idea at that stage to start chasing a ball inside 4 solid walls…
On the other side of the coin, if you were on Mongoose or Nicker Ballers, or even Foss
Nation or Nick at Night, then
you would hardly be wiping too much sweat of the brow. We had a decent amount
of activity on the courts overall last night, but not too many league matches
completed. As I have been saying all season so far, match completion is down
this half, it needs to pick up. Especially for those who haven’t yet reached
their 5 match quota. You have until December 9. No excuse.
On the Rocks had
a disaster week even in terms of having the bye. A good chance to get some pick
up matches on the books, but they only picked up 3 points and dropped from 3rd
to 8th. I doubt they will get all the way to 9th although
it looks like they are trying hard to do so, Foss Nation seem content puttering around that area – they again
picked up a league lowest for the round with just 19 points.
So who will make the highlight reel this week… well, Fred Fordon (Butter Nutz) does. He was up against Max Franklin (Wardogs)
and these 2 were having a reeeally
good match. It was tight all the way, the audience was kept enthralled as they
split the first 2 games and were continuing the long rallies in the third. But
of course, I would be inept in my reporting if I didn’t call out the one stand-out error that overshadowed
the high quality of the contest. Timing is everything. Fred was serving at
11-14 (so match-ball for Max) and what does he do? He serves it out. (Face
palm!) Yes, even the #1’s in the league can perform the most ill-timed brain-seizures.
It was an excellent match, with a memorable ending!
And well done to John
Perkins (Wardogs) who somehow
managed to win all 3 games against Scott
Beals (Butter Nutz) proving to
us all that if you stay in the rally long enough, if your opponent refuses to
call 5 ‘lets’ (strokes?) per rally, then chances are you will end up winning. I
exaggerate (!) of course, but watching a decent amount of this match, Scott had
John on a string more times than not, but John ran it all down. Often enough
Scott had an open court ‘winner’ but strangely would pound the ball straight
back to John’s racquet instead. Just goes to show, dominating the rallies is
one thing, ending them is another! After the match, John could not get off the
court fast enough to find the bench and collapse. Scott couldn’t off the court
at all.
In other attention-grabbing news, Jay Bonahoom (Mongoose)
picks up his second win of the season with a 2-1 win over Andy Adamo (Nicker Ballers);
Brien Baker (Nick at Night) gets his first victory with a 2-1 beat down of Dane Fossee (Foss Nation); and Colin
Bayer (Vivio’s) now sits with 3 wins
and 1 loss after his 2-1 battle over Greg
Allare (Winky-Dinks) who is now
2 and 2 this half.
Next week is Thanksgiving. So the league has a rest. That
doesn’t mean you all have to stop playing. It does mean that you have a chance to get your make-up matches in and
reach the 5 match threshold. Most of you only have 1 or 2 matches to get there,
so it aint that hard! Round 8 is
scheduled for November 28. So as you chew on your turkey leg and stuffing and pumpkin
pie next week, just think… what’s the over / under on how many time Matthew
Stafford will get sacked? I’m thinking 6. If Australia celebrated Thanksgiving,
would we be dining with Vegemite sandwiches? Or shrimps on the barbie? And
rumor has it that there was a 15-0 handed out on the doubles court in a league
match last night… and since I have been on the receiving end of such a humiliation
in the past, I’m happy to see that I am no longer the Detroit Lion of the
doubles world. We have a couple of Cleveland Browns as well.
