Boasters League round 5~~
Mongoose have
decided that enough is enough, it’s time to grab this thing by the scruff of
the neck and run away with it. Captain Paul
Huth is in fine form once again with his very effective non-subtle communication
techniques, a tactic that other team captains may want to investigate! Whatever
he is saying, it’s working. Mongoose stormed
ahead this week with an inspiring 42 points, aided with the fact they also
picked up a season’s best (so far) 14 bonus points last night. That’s plants
them 28 points ahead of second place Butter
Nutz… a significant lead.
Winky-Dinks also
put up a decent showing. They picked up 38 points from last week, including 13
bonus points and were round 5’s biggest mover jumping from 7th to 5th.
As always the team that has the bye suffers the most and this week it was Nicker Ballers that endured that fate.
However, even though they dropped from 5th to 7th, they
picked up 14 points in make-up matches which is actually not a bad effort. As
expected, the 5 teams that have had the bye so far are ranked 5th to
9th, so – putting it in perspective - Winky-Dinks – are looking in respectable shape. Not sure they can
catch Mongoose though.
It was a reasonably active night, the keg was destroyed in
quick fashion (with help of the handball players of course!) but we didn’t see John Mann (Over Served) devour any amount of chicken wings which was strange. John
did, however, eat up Mike Petix (Mongoose) on court with a 2-1 win, maintaining
his undefeated status, although I only have 2 results from him so far. Blake Roller (Mongoose) is counting himself fortunate to get away with a 2-1,
15-14 in the 3rd win over Sam
Fogleman (Over Served), a decent
quality contest with plenty of scrambling rallies and with a score line like
that, the result could have easily been reversed.
Brian Ellison (Over Served) was his usual entertaining
self against Paul Huth (Mongoose) as he literally throws
himself around the court. His never-say-die mentality comes out in the form of
full body diving. That didn’t save him from winning the 3rd game,
but he still took the match 2-1. For an encore, Brian hoped on court with a young
guest who is a top US junior. No amount of diving helped him here. He lost that one.
Other matches worth pointing out… Han Peng (Nick at Night)
is now 3-for-3 after taking down Josh
Gershonowicz (Butter Nutz) 2-1
in their first ever recorded score; Jay
Bonahoom (Winky-Dinks) picks up
his first win of the season with a 2-1 victory over Paul Ward (Wardogs); Matt Peleman (Vivio’s) scored a tough 2-1 triumph over Schuyler Hamill (Foss Nation);
and Brady Savage (Foss Nation) is also yet to lose this
season after another win, a 2-1 take down of Peter Huthwaite (Vivio’s).
The league picks up again in 2 weeks time as we welcome the
professional women players into the club for the DAC Pro Squash Classic. This
gives you time to get some make-up matches in, and make sure you are well on
your way to that 5 match minimum threshold. Nine players have already reached
the mark, but we have 5 players still yet grace us with their presence. (Given,
a couple of those players are currently injured, so they are excused!)
