Insane

Wow. Those three letters sum it up pretty nicely. Wednesday night we played our 5th shuffleboard league game of the season at Woodie's Ice House. Woodie's board was insane, and not in a good way. From one end of the table, no matter where you tried to shoot it to, your puck either fell off the left rail (side) or found a tiny little lip and hung on to the left rail at a deep one or better. The only time a puck was anywhere but on the left side was if it was hit by another puck and bumped around. The speed from that end of the board was impossible. All you had to do was barely push your puck and watch it slowly float down the board, curve to the left and fall off. Insane. The other end wasn't much better. There wasn't as drastic as a curve as the other end but there was a curve. Historically, our team hasn't played very well on this board, but we've changed that.

Game 1 - Match Record 0-0

Elaine and Dave got the call for our first game of the night. We started out with 2 handicap points and right off the bat Elaine had the crazy, left turn curve down. She scored in all of her frames except one. Dave gave up 4 points in his first frame but then held his opponent to 1 or less points after that. After 9 frames, we won 19-7.

Game 2 - Match Record 1-0

Bert and John were up next. After giving up one handicap point Bert scored two consecutive 2 while John kept his opponent to 0. Then it was John's turn to score 2 twice in a row. Their opponents started to make a comeback but John and Bert held on to win it 17-14, the first of three games to go to 14-14 before someone scored the winning point.

Game 3 - Match Record 2-0

For game 3 we played Lexie and myself and had to give up 3 points. Lexie scores 4 points in the first frame to give us the lead. My opponent scored 2 on me the next frame and for the next 3 frames neither Lex or I could stop the bleeding. I finally scored a couple of points but it was too little too late and we lost 6-15.

Game 4 - Match Record 2-1

Elaine was back up but this time she was partnered with Margaret. We had to give up 3 handicap points again but Margaret quickly made those back up. This was a bit of a seesaw game with the points being scored on both sides. By the 5th frame we had the lead 11-5 but their opponents rallied to make it 11-12 in the 9th frame. Now it's the 12th frame, the score is 13 to 14 and we have the hammer. Elaine already has a one on the board and shoots her last puck. It falls off the side. 14 to 14. Margaret can't stop her opponent and we go down 14-20.

Game 5 - Match Record 2-2

Let's see if we can repeat our second game. Bert and John are back up together and again have to give up one point. They both started strong, scoring 3 points in each of their frames, but gave up 7 points in the following 3 frames. John started finding his speed and scored a total of 12 points in his next four frames to get us the victory 18-14.

Game 6 - Match Record 3-2

Image by AndiH via Flickr

Elaine and Dave go back up for what we hope is the last game of the night. After some confusion on who they were going to play against, we ended up getting 2 handicap points. Dave started it off and gave up 2 points. For the entire game, Dave never shot the hammer and managed to keep his opponent from scoring more than 2. I don't know if Elaine was ready to go home or what but she was on fire. Her frames were 3 points, 1 point, 7 points and then 5 points. We take the win 18-6 and take the match 4 games to 2.

Our winning streak continues. After losing the first two games of the season we have rallied to win 3 straight. Our next game is at home against the Cozy Corner ClusterPucks and is the first of 3 weeks that we will be playing at our home board. Could we possibly finish this half without losing another match? That would be freakin' sweet!

Quote of the night: "Take a left bitch!" - Elaine (talking to her puck)

Record:

3-2

Next opponent - Cozy Corner ClusterPucks

Go BarFlies!