Houston's 4.0 team will head to Nationals this week where they will face a murderer's row of opponents in their bracket. Freeman's team dominated Texas this year and seem to have the kind of talent that can be successful at Nationals.
Apparently, all the big guns will be making the trip. Hopefully, Chris Towle (I have granted him permission to post to the blog) or Freeman or someone else on the team can keep us informed and give us a bit of an inside look at how things are going in Tuscon.
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I (or Chris) will keep you guys posted throughout the week and through the weekend....hopefully we will have paitice news each time :)
ReplyDelete"good" news....I don't know what "paitice" news is....blackberry word :)
ReplyDeleteOur 8.5 team had a pretty rough go of it in Dallas. On the way up there Friday morning one of our line one guys, Jason Rawls, received a call informing him his brother had just passed away. We still managed to win one line every match but had to default line three every time we played. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jason and his family.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what happened with the 7.5 team. I heard they lost a match Saturday so decided to default the rest of their matches and head home. A few of the other captains were pretty pissed off. I overheard them speaking with the officials about banning the Houston players from playing sectional matches next year? I'd be curious to know how accurate this all is. Does anyone have any information?
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I know that for Adult and Sr Sectionals, if a team defaults any match every player on the team (even if you weren't present at the event) cannot participate in the next year's Sectionals. I don't know if this applies for Combo. I'm sure it would not cross over. In other words, you're banned from Sectionals due to the Combo event.
ReplyDeleteFreeman's team played all 3 of the matches.
ReplyDeleteThe results are on tennis link.
I just saw the results there as well. I can't figure out why the other captains would have been bitching unless they thought they had additional matches to play. I guess all's well that ends well. Good luck to everyone this week.
ReplyDeleteGood Luck to Freeman's Hurricanes! Best of Luck to Ahmed, Janek, Knutson, Goldberg, Reese, and the rest of the team, and especially my buddy Tran-Park.
ReplyDeleteOff topic, but have Phong/Henry and Tim Green had a falling out? Are Phong/Henry gonna be on the Rice team next summer?
ReplyDeleteGood luck to the local 4.0 boys.
ReplyDeleteThey arent the 5.5 level players that Green and Benzon prefer. Prepare to be amazed with what Green comes up with next year to compete with San Antonio. If you are an actual 4.5 don't even waste your time on league next summer.
ReplyDeleteIn other words... everyone better protest your rating down because the Ringers are a coming!!!!
ReplyDeleteHenry and Phong are welcome on any team I ever captain. They are great players and better individuals. I will ask Phong Saturday at my wedding if we have had a "falling out".
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your wedding Tim!
ReplyDeleteTim, congrats on the wedding!!!
ReplyDeleteQuack, thanks for the kind words!
I'm not sure how Houston got connected with the negative comments regarding combo last weekend but I do know my entire team stayed around after an unforseen loss in a futile hope that SETX would drop 1 line to Abilene. No team of mine (or individual on one of my teams) would ever do anything to upset the HTA or the TTA. I understand and appreciate how hard they work to put on those type of events.
We simply went to Dallas and lost a heartbreaker which knocked us out of the tournament.
There was some negative discussion about some team that failed to show but it was not ours.
Congrads on the wedding Tim!
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