Boasters League round
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If I was Captain Kirk, I’d be sending out a probe into the
expanse to search for any signs completed squash matches. And Mr. Spock would
be looking into his tricorder, or whatever that device of his is, and be
explaining, “indicators negative at this
time…” Typically, the second half of the season does see a small drop
matches being played, but this is almost reaching critical levels. To give you
an idea, the current league leaders – “Space
Geckos” – have 70 points. By the third round in the first half of the
season, six teams had at least 70
points.
So. Everybody needs to start pushing and make a huge effort
to get back on track. We are already 3 weeks in and only have 6 weeks to go,
and by March 4 you will be wondering where the time went. I suppose one of the
biggest surprises so far on the standing are the “Butter Nutz” who find themselves in 5th position and
will be even lower by the end of week 4 since they have the ‘bye’.
Closest match of round 3 goes to Joey Gaylord (“Wardogs”)
and Alan Howard (“The Nicker Ballers”). Literally nothing
separated the two as the match came down to the final rally in the third game.
With the look of relief on both the players’ faces as they walked off, it was
impossible to tell who had actually won. Joey – it turned out – had taken the 3rd
15-14.
Paul Van Tol (“Nick at Night”) kept one step ahead of Jay Poplawski (“Space Geckos”) and played a few too many short angles to take the
2-1 victory; DJ Boyd (“Butter Nutz”) managed to snag a game
off the veteran Tom Fabbri (“Winky-Dinks”) before succumbing 1-2;
and Robert Welch (“Winky-Dinks”) proved a little too steady for Glen Milligan (“Butter Nutz”) in his 2-1 triumph.
With New Years and the Dividend out of the way, there are no
more excuses for Wednesday night absences. You cannot wait any longer to get
playing otherwise you will run out of
time. Your team is relying on you. What I’d like to hear from everybody in a couple
of weeks should be similar to Engineer Scotty… “I can’t push it any harder, I’m goin’ to blow!”
