Running out the Season

Just a quick update for the ol' blog, sorry for my lack in posting. The summer session is wrapping up, we've got two more weeks to go. As a team we've kinda hit a rut. We're 4-7 with five of those losses being our last five matches. In other occurrences of the number 5, I got bumped up to a SL5 for the 5th time. And I've had a pretty decent season at 5 wins and 2 losses (this means that I'm guaranteed a winning record even if I lose my last two matches–I'm the only player on the team for whom this is true). Only real low point of the season for me was this week. I was psyched about being a SL5 again, and I wanted to play somebody I was pretty sure I could beat, such as a weak/beginner SL3. But at 7:15 I was the only player on my team present so I absolutely had to play. And it was the opposing team's captain, a former SL6, who went up against me. So I was definitely grumpy about that, shooting and having to mark my own innings, no encouragement, etc. Then it seemed that everybody on my team showed up at once, and it just spiraled downward from there. Oh well, that's being a captain for you. Two more weeks and then we'll get a nice chance to rest up before things pick back up in the fall, which is my favorite time to play pool. These might be the last days of the "Sophie's Crapshot" team-naming mishap, and I'm pretty excited about the new name we've conjured up. Stay tuned. (Above is Peter Leung, our resident SL7, playing at Parkside Lounge on the first match of the season, June 1st. We won the match 4-1)