Saturday, March 13, 2010

TORREY OAKS AND PEACE RIVER PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT (SUPPLEMENT)

SUPPLEMENT TO ORIGINAL POSTING
The two collages at the beginning of the original article may not have printed properly. Hopefully they will be OK in this reprint of the first section of the article. For the rest of the article, please refer to the original posting. SORRY!

March 13 – Stan organized a fun tournament for players from both Torrey Oaks and Peace River. There were about 23 players – 11 women and 12 men; and there seemed to be about an equal number of players from each park.

With so many players, we decided we would use Rally Scoring where a point is scored by one team or the other on every serve. (Normally, in Pickleball, you only score when your team is serving.) Rally Scoring makes the games go much more quickly.

We all had a great time, even if we were not one of the winners shown below!!

Here are some of the participants and spectators.

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March 13 – Stan organized a fun tournament for players from both Torrey Oaks and Peace River. . .

For the first section of this article, please see TORREY OAKS AND PEACE RIVER PICKLEBALL (SUPPLEMENT).


Stan, with Sally's help, kept the tournament running smoothly and kept the scores.



Some of the action, action, action!! I hope I got every player at least one time.

























THE TOURNAMENT WINNERS!!
Winners for the Women: Renate, 3rd; The Other Sally 2nd; and playing in her first tournament Diane won 1st Place. Congratulations, Ladies!!
Winners for the Men: Tom, 2nd; Dean took 1st Place; and Joe 3rd. Congratulations, Guys!!

Thank you, Stan, for a great, fun tournament!!
Note: If anyone has some neat tournament pictures they would like for me to post on this Blog, send them to me at fewbank@juno.com and I will include them on an Addendum to this article.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

RV FIRE AT TT PEACE RIVER

March 11 – Some excitement today at Peace River. We were surprised to see a fire engine pass by our site heading right down our road. Soon it was followed by another and another and a fourth!! They all stopped down at the other end of our road where our friends, Tom and Marge, were camped. We decided to walk down to be certain they were OK.

The reason for all the commotion was a refrigerator fire in a recent model Monaco Diplomat. It appeared the owners were not at home and the front door window had to be broken to allow access by the firemen.
Ken, Tom and Marge joined the crowd of spectators. We wish the owners good luck. Thank goodness no one was injured.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

TACOS AT EL TACORIENDO


March 10 – One of our favorite places for quick, easy Mexican is El Tacoriendo – a small authentic Mexican joint in Zolfo Springs, about 2 miles from TT Peace River. The Tacos are really good and the price is right!! Today we invited a group of Pickleball friends to join us for Tacos.
Owners of El Tacoriendo. They have been at this locations (from San Antionio) for many years. They serve breakfast and lunch only, closing at 2 PM so we have to get there before that!!

Our group today: Diane, Carol, Sam, Renate, Heinz, Tom, Marge, Ken, Faye and Cal.

Here's the group from the other end of the table.