Thursday, April 6th 9:00am begins the Thursday Morning Four-Play challenge. Please show up by no later than 8:45 am to sign in and listen to Ron Raymond or Al Bessette explain the rules. If you have never played this challenge with us before, please come down and join us. We have invited the members of the other local shuffleboard clubs to come join us. We play four matches with a new partner each game. Hope to see you there.
Good News…..Barb Fortini is home from the hospital and on the mend from a hip replacement. Hope to see you back at the courts soon.
Barb Fortini
Summer hours for play begins on April. 3 at 10:00 a.m. instead of the regular 1:30 p.m. time frame. We will still be playing Tuesday and Thursday Evening at 6:30 pm.
Al Bessette’s group, Thursday Morning Four Play will begin at 9:00 a.m. every Thursday beginning on April 6, 2017.
SEE YOU THERE.
THERE WILL BE NO SINGLES MINGLES THIS TUESDAY BECAUSE DENNIS WILL NOT BE HERE. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
The Masters Tournament took place at the CMS Shuffleboard Courts on March 23rd and 24th. Thirty-Two (32) avid players turned up to meet the challenge. Rich Kordeleski and his crew put the courts in excellent shape. Marguerite and her kitchen crew had coffee and donuts on hand. Every thing was properly prepared for this special event.
Then the rain came and delayed the start of our play until Ten o’clock. Finally sixteen (16) courts were dried clean ready for play with volunteer pushers at the Foot and Master shufflers at the Head. Each category of the Pro Men, Pro Women, Amateur Women and Amateur Men were assigned their first challengers by Jack Wooten. Within their categories each shuffler played two games (4 matches) on Thursday morning, then took a lunch break followed by two more games (4 matches) in the afternoon. Friday morning we all arrived and began the play right on schedule at 8:30 am. Each shuffler had two more games (4 matches) in the morning and after lunch, they each had their last game (2 matches). The last match was halted due to rain. Jack Wooten, ND Event Director, tallied up the final scores.
All the shufflers, pushers and volunteers headed out to Quail Hollow (per Stan Williamson’s invite) for the Masters Tournament Banquet. Paul and Marguerite Fortier helped serve spaghetti with meatballs, bread and salad. The table decorations were charming and festive. Allen Best welcomed all of us to Quail Hollow and acted as the Master of Ceremonies. Allen recognized all our sponsors and introduced the Northern District Officers. Joan Best gave the prayer and then lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Jack Wooten made the presentations for Move Up Pins, Participation Pins and then the two Frank Wilson Awards for the Tournament of Champions. This year may be the first time we had a husband/wife team win. Bonnie Radke won Amateur Women TOC and Randy Radke won Amateur Men TOC. Jack announced the placement for this Master’s Tournament after which he then presented this years Northern District HALL OF FAME inductees. Kudos to all!
Shufflers placing from the CMS Club were: PRO MEN; FIRST PLACE – Stan Williamson, THIRD PLACE – Dennis Buelk and EIGHTH PLACE – Tom Rimmer. PRO WOMEN; FIRST PLACE – Edna Triplett and EIGHTH PLACE – Mary Ann Pabst. AMATEUR MEN; FIRST PLACE – Mouse Wolven and Randy Radke (Tied). AMATEUR WOMEN: SECOND PLACE – Bonnie Radke, THIRD PLACE – Barbara Rush, SIXTH PLACE – Mona Carkner and Louise (Honey) Donnelly (Tied).
Many thanks to all the participants who helped make this tournament a success.
Please refer to the Northern District website for more additional information on the tournament.
Program for the Master’s Banquet
All The Volunteers
There will be NO DAILY PLAY THURSDAY OR FRIDAY, March 23rd/ 24TH due to the Masters Tournament. We also still need volunteers to push and clean discs on Friday in particular and Thursday if you could do both. If you are available, please call Allen Best at 302-841-0251. Thanks for your support. Please come by and cheer your teammates on! See you there.
Today at 9:00 am Twenty-Nine (29) enthusiastic volunteers showed up to clean, wash, wax and organize the whole shuffleboard area including the cue house and club house. Marguerite was out sick so Arlene took over getting the donuts while Allen helped to get the coffee going. The discs were all cleaned and waxed, the scoreboards were scrubbed and sponges washed. The courts were also blown clear of leaves and debris.
This was one of the largest group of volunteers we have had to date. This is why, besides great leadership, we have such a successful club. It was great to see so many of our new members join in to help. We apologize if we have missed any of you in our attached slide show.
NOTE: A Shout Out to Rich Kordeleski, our court manager, for all his hard work installing the new lock hasps in the cue holding room for our current and expanding membership.
Thanks to all our wonderful volunteers…………………Ciao!
The city has been cleaning, painting and repairing our shuffleboard facility. Now it is our turn to do the final Clean Up before the Masters Tournament. This is a call for ALL VOLUNTEERS to please come by at 9:00 am on Tuesday, March 21st to help wash, clean and wax the courts. We also need to clean the scoreboards, erasers and sweep out the Cue House. If enough members come on by, we should finish-up before noon. Thanks in advance for your help. See you there!
These pictures were sent from Allen Best. Thursday night, under the lights, we had so many shufflers playing. All eight lighted courts were full. We have such fun playing in the evenings and spectators love to come by and watch, take pictures and ask questions. Loads of fun on Flagler Ave.
Today’s overcast morning started out a bit nippy to downright chilly and blustery. Eighteen (18) keen members showed up to play a few friendly shuffling matches. The previous night’s wet courts were dried, cleaned and beaded. Dennis Buelk collected the entry fees, explained the rules, set up the drawing for partners, tallied up the scores and distributed the winnings to those who placed. Each participant played five matches (except for a bye worth 65 points) in which only the winning scores were recorded.
The Pro Winners were: FIRST PLACE – Pete Peterson; SECOND PLACE – Walt Vilk and THIRD PLACE – Felix Piscitelli.
The Amateur Winners were: FIRST PLACE – Randy Radke; SECOND PLACE: Allen Best and THIRD PLACE – Bonnie Radke. Thanks to all those members who came out this brisk morning for some fun and games. Ciao!
The Pros, Pete, Felix and Walt.
The Amateurs, Randy, Bonnie and Allen
Tallying the scores.
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The Coronado/Mainland Shuffler 