Thursday 5 May 2011

Racketballers home v Colinton (Tue, May 5)

When any Colinton team turn up with Adam Lord at #3, the portents do not look good. We even had a home support for this match, with Matt Pearson, Mike Dougall and Al Mackie staying on to see what this new-fangled game was like.
Derek Addison made his debut at #4 against Colinton captain Gorgeous George Purves. Derek used his formidable reach to stay in a lot of rallies he had no right to and the first game went 14-14 with Derek just losing by the odd point. George turned up the wick in the second with some sumptuous drop shot. In the third, Derek was 12-8 up and looking likely to get that one but a few soft point allowed George to catch up and George closed out 3-0 from there.
Guy Tulloch on his debut at #5 playing an experienced opponent. Guy was unlucky not to get a game out of this as he played well and pushed his man all the way in the 3 games. Meanwhile on the other court, Ali Ross was playing, respendant with baseball hat, against Bill. No ceiling shots mentioned this time, Ali captured the first game ever for the team, going down 1-3.
Dean played Dave Cook at #2 and by his own admission, all his shots looped up rather than flattening most of them. Dave flattened them for him, crosscourt, straight, it didn't matter, Dean was left floundering. 0-3.
Eagerly anticipated was the #3 battle, Jordan Fleming playing agains Adam Lord who had never struck a racketball before. The balcony gathered for this one, lots of entertainment with 2 extroverts in the same confined space. I can't say any more, apart from the score was 0-3. Cap'n George said afterwards that if he himself had played at #3 against Jordan instead, he'd probably have lost, which I take as a compliment to how well Jordan played against a very strong opponent.
Christy took on someone down on the team sheet as Richard McBride, but he was playing with his left hand, didn't argue and spoke with an Edinburgh accent.
It might as well have been Richard 'cos Roddy toyed with Christy and had him breathing out his a**e most of the time... the rest of the time Christy would tin it after 20 shots in order to get a break and breathe normally. 0-3.
Overall 1-18 which is an improvement over last time out. MoTM Ali Ross. Garlic bread followed, followed by pasta in asucculent sauce for vegetarian Dean and pasta 'n ham in a succulent sauce for the rest. Roddy had a fire to put out, which probably got him more out of breath than his match. In the bar, Ali Ross tapped Dean's and Christy's brains for manufacturing ideas for his new world-enslaving wonder game, wot doesn't involve rackets.

4 comments:

j said...

Nice. We have 100% improved our record to one game. Sniff....it makes me so proud...

j

Loob said...

This could be a logarithmic improvement... in which case we beat Hatton 18-0.

On the other hand, it might be a blip and we get wiped out 0-18 next time out ;-(

Anonymous said...

Why did Roddy have to put a fire out?

Loob said...

...either that or his boss is a bit melodramatic. Either way, he rushed off to the airport.