Pickleball Champs

A couple of weekends ago, Barb was in a pickleball tournament at another park in the area.  She teamed with her best friend, Barb, for the women's tournament on Saturday and teamed up with her friend, Mike, from Ottawa for the mixed tournament on Sunday.

In the women's tournament, Barb and Barb was doing well but lost a close game on the winners' side to the eventual winners of the tournament.  After the game, Barb said that she would see them in the finals.  Unfortunately, a little later, while playing their way back on the losers' side of the bracket, they lost another close game because of a referee mixup.  The referee who was an older fellow who couldn't figure out what was going on and had to be replaced.  When he was replaced Barb and Barb were winning 5-3.  However, the new referee decided to start the game over again and with the new referee they lost 15-13.  Barb was not impressed.  Many people came up to her later in the day and asked her how they did in the women's tournament and were surprised when Barb said she didn't win.  They thought Barb and Barb would probably win the whole thing.

The next day, Barb and Mike played in the mixed tournament.  They lost a tough game early and had to play the long way back on the losers' side.  They worked their way back and beat the team that had earlier beat them to get to the finals.  Then they won the first game of finals but it was a double knockout.  So they had to play a second game.  They were up most the game but tired at the end and lost a close one.  So they got the silver medal.

in the next few days, there were reports in the local newspapers about the tournament.  In one of the papers, they only named the winners who lived in the host park.  They said that a team that came all the way from Ottawa came second. Barb took a photo of the newspaper to email to her pickleball pals in Ottawa.

In another newspaper, they listed the winners by name but didn't say where they came from.  So Barb took another photo of the page and emailed that to her pickleball friends in Ottawa too.