18 Compete in Golf Club of Avon's Annual A-B Tournament


Saturday, January 19th was a perfect morning for paddle; brisk temperatures, clear skies and a paddle hut full men itching to play and trash talk their opponents. Just what you hope for as a tournament director.

"A" players were paired with "B" players in a rotating partner round robin format and individual scores were recored for each of the 9 rounds played.

After all was said and done, Joe Pavano from the "A" players and Don Dow from the "B" players were victorious. Joe and Don are sporting their "masters' green paddle sweaters in the photo below.


The Morning Crew


Joe and Don

APPL STANDINGS

Flight A1
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 1/28 2/4 Total
1...........3.....3.....3.............1.....10
2...........0............0.....1.5...1.5...3
3...........0...........1......1.5...1.5...4
4...........3....1.....2..............2......8
5.................0.....2......1.5...1.5....5

Flight A2
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 1/28 2/4 Total
1.................3.....3............3....
2...........0.....0.....0......2............2
3................ 3..
4...........3............3............0
5..................0.....0......1

Flight N1
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 Total
1...........3........3........3..........9
2...........0.....0.....3.......3
3...........3.....3.....0.......6
4...........0.....0.....0.......0 Team #4 will move down to N2

Flight N2
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 Total
1...........0.....0.....2.....2
2...........3.....1.....1.....5
3...........0.....2.....1.....3
4...........3.....3.....2......8 Winner of Flight, Team #4 will move up to N1

Flight A-B1
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 Total
1...........2.....3....3.......8 Winner of Flight
2...........1.....0....
3...........3.....3....0.......6
4...........0.....0

Flight A-B2
Team # 1/7 1/14 1/21 Total
1...........3.....3.....3......9 Winner of Flight will move up to A-B1
2...........0.....2.....3......5
3...........3.....1.....0......4
4...........0.....0.....0......0

ALL PLAYERS PADDLE LEAGUE (APPL) SET TO START JANUARY 7TH, 2008

The inaugural APPL will begin with twenty-six women's teams competing in daytime and evening paddle leagues in the Northern CT/Western MA area. Below is a listing of the flights and match schedules.

Schedule of Play – Daytime Women’s A1 and A2 flights

Flight A1
Team #
#1 Patti Willis/Jay Christman
#2 Cindy Marsh/Danna Riordan
#3 Kelly Hellstein/Johanne Presser
#4 Jodie Dimetres/Laurie Holl
#5 Phyliss Kindelan/Kathryn West

Flight A2
Team #
#1 Barb Corcoran/Marian Hendershot
#2 Terry Dehm/Kelly Zabel
#3 Gail Murphy/Jean Robbins
#4 Sally Fitzgerald/Donna Gorman
#5 Sue Glasspiegel/Lynn Pollack

Team listed first is the home team, team not listed is off that week
1/7 1/14 1/21 1/28 2/4 2/11

1 v 3 5 v 1 4 v 5 4 v 3 1 v 4 make-up
2 v 4 3 v 2 2 v 1 5 v 2 3 v 5


Schedule of Play – Daytime Women’s N1 and N2 Flights

Flight N1
Team #
#1 Jane Rabe/Brenda Ransley
#2 Mary Scobee/Pam Fish
#3 Tamara Hochman/Terry Langevin
#4 Dottie Foote/Beth Miranda

Flight N2
Team #
#1 Christine McNally/Judi Levin
#2 Katie French/Carole Margolis
#3 Pam Callahan/Kristen Horrigan
#4 Robin Fierston/Laurie Goldsmith


Team listed first is the home team
1/7 1/14 1/21 1/28
1 v 2 2 v 3 1 v 3 make-up
3 v 4 4 v 1 2 v 4

Second session will begin 2/4


Schedule of play - Evening Women’s A-B 1 and A-B 2 Flights

Flight A-B 1
Team #
#1 Laurie Lamoreaux/Cheryl Stone
#2 Jacqueline Kenny/Jen Bartini
#3 Jane Covey/Sue Grayson
#4 Patti Broad/Patti Kent

Flight A-B 2
Team #
#1 Joni Morris/Althea Schwartz
#2 Patti Connolly/Esther McNany
#3 Barb Meskill/Eileen Meskill-Gallupe
#4 Zofia Lavoie/Kristine York

Team listed first is the home team
1/7 1/14 1/21 1/28
1 v 2 2 v 3 1 v 3 make-up
3 v 4 4 v 1 2 v 4

Second session will begin 2/4

Paddle is a Family Affair

Jen Ryan with her niece, Kathryn, daughter, Alza
and son, John playing paddle at Hop Meadow CC,
Simsbury, CT.

All Players Paddle League Set to Begin January 7th, 2008

A new women's league has been established to provide greater playing opportunities to paddle players in Northern Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. The All Players Paddle League (APPL) is unique to this area in that it allows players from different clubs to play together, it offers an evening league as well as daytime and each individual team has the ability to move up in level if they win their regular flight and challenge matches.

The format has been extremely successful downstate in the Greater Boston arean and New Canaan, CT where they have a townwide league with close to 200 teams.

The goal is to give paddle players as many playing choices as possible and if successful, the league will expand and add more flights and hopefully, a Men's League in 2008-2009.

Anyone interested needs to contact Sheri Shea at paddlemaven@sbcglobal.net.

Sign up ends Sunday, December 30 and play begins the week of January 7th.

Jonah Lazowski and Ben Shoham - Having fun
playing paddle after school at Tumble Brook
Country Club, Bloomfield, CT.


Proper positioning for defending the lob from
the deuce side of the court.


Proper positioning for defending a drive from
the deuce side of the court.

Paddle Drill/Game of the Month - Two on One with a Twist

Objective: Baseline player is looking to hit as many balls as possible before making 3 errors. Baseline player may drive or lob against the 2 players at the net. Baseline player learns how to develop a point and move the net team out of position.

The net team is working on accuracy by placing the ball on the baseline player's half of the court. The net team is also working on proper communication on every lob hit to them.

The Game: Team at net starts with an underhand feed to the baseline player and the point begins. Everytime the baseline player successfully hits the ball to the net team, the baseline player gets a point. Example, the baseline player hits 4 shots and then makes an error. On the next rally, the baseline player hits 7 shots before making an error. The baseline player now has 11 points and so on. If the net team makes an error, no one is penalized and play continues with a new rally. After three errors by the baseline player, players rotate and a new person becomes the baseline player. Repeat 5 times and the player with the highest cumulative score is the winner.

Note: Player at baseline can choose which side of the court they prefer to defend. If the net team hits the ball to the rong side of the court, the rally ends and a new rally begins. No error is assesed to the baseline player.

L.G., This one's for you!