Ah-ah-ah-ah stayin' alive! We've kept our winning streak going! Way to go Crowe BarFlies!!
Wednesday night was week 7 and our 6th match. We played against the Cozy Corner ClusterPucks who gave us a good run for our money and it's always a good time when the ClusterPucks come to your bar!
Game 1 - Match Record 0-0
The home team has to put up their two players first and then the visiting team gets to decide who to play against them. This switches every game. So as the home team we put up Steve and John first. They had to give up 3 handicap points but Steve got it back in his first frame. This was a pretty close game but John sealed the deal in the 12th frame when he scored 4 to win the game 15-10.
Game 2 - Match Record 1-0
Next up for the BarFlies was Roger and Dave. This was the only heads up game of the night, meaning that neither team got handicap points right off the bat. Roger shot like a mad man scoring 12 of the 16 points with Dave scoring 4 and holding his opponent to only 3 points. We took this win decisively 16-3.
Game 3 - Match Record 2-0
We called on the pink shirted ladies for this one, Bert and Lexie. After giving up 3 handicap points, the score on this game flip flopped until the very end. Bert kept scoring threes and Lexie was able to hold her partner to only a couple of points a frame. This one came down to the 13th frame where it was 14-14. We just couldn't hang on to take this one and lost 14-16.
Game 4 - Match Record 2-1
Margaret and I played the 4th game which was a little scary at first. Mom and I don't have the best track record when we play together. Top that off with having to give up 5 points for handicap and it's a steep hill to climb back up. Thank goodness Mom was hitting her shots! She scored 11 of our points to give us the win at 16-12.
Game 5 - Match Record 3-1
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John (who I wanted to call Jolly for this game) and Roger (get it? Jolly Roger?) were up in the 5th game. We really wanted to win this one and for me there were 2 reasons why. The first being pretty obvious. We win and it's over. The second goes back a few seasons. Roger is a great player, but for some reason he almost always wins his first game and then loses the second. We have been trying to break this curse for a while now and this game was going to do it. I was sure of it. But the curse held and Roger was robbed of a great shot by a "sticky spot" on the board allowing the ClusterPucks to take the victory over us 14-17.
Game 6 - Match Record 3-2
This is about when the butterflies start flapping their annoying wings in my stomach. Just one more win. Just one more win. We decide on Margaret and Bert for this, hopefully, our last game of the night. After giving up yet another 4 points for handicap, Bert and Margaret settled in a played a close, nail biting, back and forth game. The ladies held on and won it for the BarFlies 16-12, keeping our winning streak alive.
Our next game is against probably our biggest rivals - our sister team the Crowe Wildpuckers, and I know they will be out for blood. It would be fantastical if we could keep our streak alive against the Wildpuckers. They are going to be tough, tough, tough! But we can do it! I know we can!!
Record
4-2
Next Opponent - Crowe Wildpuckers
Go BarFlies!
