Saturday - March 17, 2007

It was a nice mild winter day. Spring is around the corner (Tuesday of next week). Since there were such a large number of players that were unavailable The group went down to an old familiar foursome, Carmel, Carole, George and Larry, that had not played together since La Jolla in 2005.

The teams were Carmel/Larry versus Carole/George selected in accordance with the player ratings. Carmel/Larry won the first two rounds and Carole/George won the last round. The results were as follows:

ROUND ONE

Carmel/Larry over Carole/George (6-3)

ROUND TWO

Carmel/Larry over Carole/George (6-1)

ROUND THREE

Carole/George over Carmel/Larry (6-4)

For refreshments we had white cheddar cheese, gouda cheese, crackers, grapes, beer, juice and pepsi.

The player ratings that changed due to today's play are as follows:

George - 5.2
Larry - 3.5
Carmel - 5.3
Carole - 3.9

Saturday - March 3, 2007

The sky was clear and the sun was shining today. The temperature warmed up very nicely as the morning went along.

We had 10 people this morning again. Zack made out a schedule of rotating partners/opponents on each round that consisted of two doubles and one singles match. The results were as follows:

ROUND ONE

Justin/Bob S. over Larry/Ingrid (6-2)
Zack/Carole over Harry/Carmel (6-3)
Tina over Sabrina (6-1)

ROUND TWO

Ingrid/Carmel over Justin/Sabrina (6-5)
Bob S./Carole over Larry/Tina (6-3)
Zack over Harry (6-1)

ROUND THREE

Carmel/Tina over Carole/Sabrina (6-2)
Zack/Ingrid over Larry/Bob S. (6-3)

There was a big crowd on the deck for refreshments since John's group of 6 players were also having refreshments. As always the refreshments were varied and delicious. Tina had brought her advertised weight watcher special of mini fritatas made of eggs, potatos and cheese. Carmel and Ingrid provided mini tuna and egg salad sandwiches. There was plenty of beer and wine to accompany the food.

The ratings that changed due to today's play are as follows.

Larry - 3.2
Zack - 5
Carmel - 5.5
Harry - 3.7
Ingrid - 4.7
Carole - 4.1
Tina - 4.7
Bob S. - 3.2
Justin - 5.2
Sabrina - 3.5