Battle of the Paddle Tournament: FINAL NOTES and PICTURES

Hurricane Ian was bearing down on us Friday and just when we thought the weekend tournament was going to be called off due to rain, Saturday and Sunday were beautiful! The sellout crowd of players came out bright and early Saturday morning starting at 8 am. They kicked off the tournament with pickleball skills. Break for pizza at midday. More pickleball skills in the afternoon. And tournament pickleball throughout Sunday.

Special thanks to Scott Hettinger for all his efforts and planning. Thanks to all of the captains that organized their teams: Kathy Rollins, Kathy McArthur, Laurie Morgan, and Cindy Hettinger.

Also thanks to Carolyn Gaziano for taking all the action photos.

We have a nice selection of photos below that you can click through. There are many more photos available by clicking on the link that goes to Google photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zcGerSG6Bv3K8Bht9

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Individual Top Scorers in the skill competition

Court 16  Deep Serve: Dan Heatherly                                                          Score 17
Court 17  Deep Return: Donna Cinotti                                                         Score 25
Court 18 3^rd Shot Drop:  Al Hausmann                                                         Score 43
Court 19 Ski Ball: Leslie Saralind, Rich Badis & Dan Heatherly                Score 400
Court 20 Lob: Fred Ammann & Joe Beitz                                                     Score 42
Court 21 Volley: Scott Hettinger                                                                   Score 84
Court 22 Cross Court Drive: Lisa Boggs                                                        Score 5
Court 23  Straight Drive: Fred Ammann, Ron Walter, Dan Heatherly    Score 5
                                             Lisa Boggs, Rick Depetris & Virginia Brown

 Skills Competition  Combined Total Individual Points 7 skills Minus Ski Ball

1^st Place  Blue Dragon  Joe Giese                                     Total Score  140
2^nd Place  Capt Morgan’s Pickled Pirates Steve Tien    Total Score  138
3^rd Place  Dinking Buddies Dan Heatherly                      Total Score  132

 Team Scores in the skills competition  (top 25 scores per team)

1^st Place Team__Blue Dragons                   Score  2057     
2^nd Place Team Capt Morgan’s Pirates      Score 1790      
3^rd Place Team  Dinking Buddies                Score 1744       
4^th Place Team  Fireballs                              Score 1659       

Overall Team Score

1^st Place Team  Blue Dragons                                                Total Points  101
2^nd Place Team  Dinking Buddies                                          Total Points    93
3^rd Place Team_Captain Morgan’s Pickled Pirates             Total Points    87
4^th Place Team  Fireballs                                                          Total Points    68