3 Out of 5 Ain't Bad

But It Ain't Good Enough

Gilles Demers and Francois Depatie-Pelletier won their first Open Doubles tournament today taking the East Coast Championship Match over Chaos #4, John Leys, and Chaos #5, Eric Wulff(hey - that’s me) - 11-15, 15-7, 15-7.

Eric and John won their pool and held the top seed by defeating Gilles and Francois in straight sets 11-8, 11-6 - finishing both games with an emphatic roll spike .  Another powerful roll from #5 off a perfect set from #4 broke a 13-11 deadlock helping to bring John and Eric victory in game one of the Championship Match.  But it’s best 2 out of 3 and Montreal A took their game to another level during game 2, perhaps for the first time in the tournament, and John and Eric couldn’t match them this time.  While there were some truly amazing rallies, and I’d like to think it still was an entertaining match - the spectators were sure acting like it was - Gilles and Francois turned on their defense and seemed to win all the important rallies from the middle of game 2 on.

On their way to the doubles final John and Eric defeated Phil Lessard and Renaud Fanoni of Montreal, Quebec 15-7, 15-3.

Gilles and Francois pulled out a close Semi-Final against Yves Archambault and JF Lemieux 10-15, 15-13, 16-14.

John Leys prevented a Montreal sweep by defeating JF Lemieux for the Singles Championship 11-5, 6-11, 11-6.

Gilles Demers defeated Yves Archambault for the bronze medal 16-14.

Highlights of the weekend include the 2 bands that rocked out in Vince’s basement on Saturday night.  Check out Maple and Vince is the bass player for boxcar collision

A very special thanks to tournament director and host of many players - Vince Bradley.  He put in allot of hard work and some personal cash not to mention hosting many folks at his house while entertaining them with a free concert in his basement.  Again, see the bands above and support those who support footbag if you can.  Maple’s CD gets a rave review from VB.

Thanks to Max for your hospitality too.  Thanks to Peter Irish and Pat Keehan and the entire ECFC staff.

Of course, I can’t sign off without mentioning the greatest prize ever to be given out for a freestyle event - 64oz of generic brand Prune Juice from concentrate to the winner of the sick 3 contest.  Who won?  Who cares?  That prize speaks for itself.  No?  What?  Yeah, well.