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We finished out our season on Tuesday night. Our team didn't have the best season, but it could have been worse. We won five out of our 14 matches (a .357 average). Of our nine losses, five went 2-3 and four went 1-4. In other words, we never got shut out (the dreaded 0-5). Indeed, our high point was our defiant 5-0 win (on their table) against a team that beat us 5-0 last time we met (on their table). Such are the dynamics and inconsistencies of our roster from week to week. The rest of our wins this season all went 3-2. Overall, a definite improvement over the winter session, in which we only won two of our matches. Our MVP of the spring session is Mr. Josh Vietze (left), who won nine of his 12 matches. The last six matches in which he played were all wins. Ever the humble player, I doubt he is even aware of this.

This of course means no more league nights for Sophie's III until the summer session, which begins in early June. I can sense the break will do our team well. Time to regroup and recruit. Time to face and battle one another "on the clipboard" at Sophie's. My goal is to practice more. Anymore, I'm only playing two, maybe three times a week. I have sensed a tapering-off of my confidence this season and have to settle for a ho-hum .500 personal average. Hats off to the Paddy McGuire's team Chalk Is Cheap, which went into Tuesday's match as the first place team in the division. They showed exceptional class, putting up their weakest player against ours in the final hill-hill match, even though they had some some heavy hitters they could have put up. And for buying our team shots afterwards. Good luck to everybody in the playoffs. I'll look forward to hearing about it.