Month: October 2018 (Page 4 of 4)

Thursday, October 4, 2018 (Court Day #208)

I had a hard time getting away from work, but I managed to get to Skypark by 7 p.m.

The scene as I arrived. Sue (Larry’s wife, in black), Dan, a man I don’t know, Lauren (ball in hand), Eddie, Leah and husband Craig.

John and I got a game together and promptly won 11-1. Then we played against Lauren and Eddie and won 11-2.

Our next game was against Larry and Oleg. We played normally until we were up 9-2. At that point, I turned to John and said, “Let’s hit everything to Oleg.” I figured, we had an advanced player on the other side of the net, we might as well sharpen our skills against him. So we did. We lost 11-2. Obviously, it not something we’d do in a tournament, but in rec play with a tournament in three days, it made a ton of sense.

Number of days on a court: 208
Number of total hours: 573

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 (Court Day #207)

With the tournament on Sunday and with me having a dentist appointment at 11 a.m., John P. and I arranged to meet at Derby at 8:30 a.m. My wife texted at 7:40 saying that her weather app had predicted drizzle starting in 50 minutes. Yeah. Perfect timing. Sure enough, as I approached the courts in my car, drops appeared like clockwork on my windshield.

I checked my phone. Dave Allenbaugh sent out a rain delay until 10 a.m.

John brought his own net which we started setting up. Halfway through that process, Dave Allenbaugh appeared. We stowed John’s net and set up one club net. The three of us dinked to warm up. Maybe we’d play 2 on 1. But then Mike showed up. Visor Mike. We played a game. John and I decided to use the Pure 2 ball which is going to be used in the tournament on Sunday. Rain drops were falling but you could still make out the individual drops on the ground. I missed a few shots long or wide. Kind of sloppy play on my part. I hope that’s not where my play is headed! John and I won the first game—not a surprise—and we all started a second game. Binh showed up and sat on the bench.

It started raining in a serious way. Mike said he was done. The court was getting very slippery and it was far from ideal conditions for a game! About 9:15, we were done.

We took down the net and went our separate ways.

Wet courts!

Later

I got a text a little after 4 p.m. from John:
“Get this- Di insists we go over to Brommer when it cleared up at 10. Got five games in with Alan, Karl, Oleg, Stuart, Di, Sarah, Dan, Gary and Art. All four courts were full. Tomorrow night!”
(“Di” being Diane, John’s wife.)

Drat. Oh, well. I had a dentist appointment anyway. Still it would have been nice if the rain had rolled in later instead. Darn rain!

Number of days on a court: 207
Number of total hours: 571.5

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