The Coronado/Mainland Shuffler

Our club needs to thank Mike Beall for the wonderful job he is doing keeping our courts in shape. Here he is waxing and cleaning the court for our coming tournament season.

I have been changing our website, so I apologize if this is a repeat.

We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support of our club. We have several brand-new Corporate Sponsor this year, Tina Prichard from Coldwell Banker Realty and The Preston Law Firm.  H2Health, G&W Roofing and Springhill Suites will once again be our Corporate Sponsors. Our Community Sponsors are Davis Bros HVAC, Anders & Anders and Todd Perry with State Farm.  This year we have several club sponsors:  Gail Kadar, Cindy & Zak Wonson, Jerry & Arlene Jabaut, Nancy Grummer and Janet Shira.  We are blessed to have so many sponsors for our shuffleboard club which is now the largest in the Northern District with over 300 members, 130 of them are new in 2022.  We will be hosting five Northern District Tournaments this year:

• October 13-14,2022
  November 17-18,2022
  December 1-2, 2022
  February 2-3, 2023
  March 2-3, 2023  

Tom Grubb and his partner Cheri Samon from St. Pete, just participated in a tournament at the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Chicago. There were 64 teams and they made it through to the sweet sixteen in Consolation. Tom had a lot of fun and got to meet Earl Ball, an old partner of Stan Williamson’s. He sent me some pictures from the trip. If you would like to check out their club, here is the website. https://www.royalpalmschicago.com/

Today we held an in-house tournament with a few guests from Deland in addition to Rod and Donna from MidFlorida Lakes. Cindy, Zak, Jerry and Arlene arrived early to set up the coffee, donuts and along with our court manager Mike Beall, set up the courts for play. Bob Augusto and Vaughn Long donated the water for the day and Janet Shira donated the donuts. The day could not have been more beautiful with just a touch of wind. Cindy and Arlene along with some assistance from Bonnie, set up the charts and the list of entrants in the tournament. We had twelve (12) Pros and (12) Amateurs sign up for the challenge. There was a small entry fee and $100 donated from the club for prize money.

The purpose of the tournament was to help train our new directors, so Rod came to check that we had it all in hand. Everything went so smoothly. Cindy was our main director with Arlene as treasurer and co-director. We played twelve frame games so we could finish in one day. It was a draw tournament with Pros playing with Amateurs. Congratulations to all the players on a great game played. The results were:

MAIN:
1st Place: Charlie Jones and Valarie Simons
2nd Place: Chris Inga and Tim Pergrem
3rd Place: Dennis Buelk and Mark Gephart
4th Place: Stan Williamson and Janet Shira

CONSOLATION:
1st Place: Rex Galusha and Kathryn Feindt
2nd Place: Jerry Jabaut and Bob Augusto
3rd Place: Randy Radke and Joan Sanford
4th Place: Donna Lewis and Vaughn Long.

Charlie and Valarie

Chris and Tim

Dennis and Mark

Stan and Janet

Rex and Kathryn

Jerry and Bob

Randy and Joan

Donna and Vaughn

Yesterday Zak announced the results from the March Club Tournament.  Congratulations to all the winners.  A new tournament will begin on Friday, April 22nd.  See you on the courts.  Ciao!

The Winners in the Tournament Division for March
1st Place:   Cindy Wonson with 7.50 points
2nd Place:   Dennis Buelk with 6.50 points
3rd Place:  Stan Williamson with 6.25 points

The Winners in the Amateur Division for March
1st Place:  Dick Wood with 7.75 points
2nd Place was a tie:  Marilyn VanLare and Anne Ferguson with 7.25 points
3rd Place was a 3-way tie:  Sue Anne Comeau, Pete Butchko and Loretta Cantalupo with 5 points,

Please note that due to a lack of participation for the lessons and a change in our regular play time, the separate lessons on Mondays will be suspended until the Fall. Please remember that although regular lessons are cancelled, Mondays are days you are allowed to come and get “coaching” from the members you are playing with. Other players are always willing to give you pointers. The best way to learn is to play with a Pro or more experienced Amateur.

On Friday April 22nd we will begin a new monthly tournament schedule. Zak will award the prize money from the March tournament then. Thanks for your patience. Ciao!

In order for our club to function properly, it is so Important for us to Thank our Volunteers and hard workers who keep our club going. Mike Beall is our Court Manager and he does such a fantastic job keeping our courts beautiful. Saturday he gave up his free time to clean and wax our courts by himself. He is continually blowing leaves and killing weeds. Our courts always look beautiful. Thank you Mike for a great job.

Mike Beall

On Friday March 25th the finalists in the 2022 CMS Club Championship Tournament battled it out for first place in their respective divisions. The finalists for Division I, II and III were chosen from the winter season’s monthly tournament winners. The top eight from each division were to play against each other. 

Division I: Bonnie Radke vs Zak Wonson
Division II: Charlie Jones vs Stan Williamson
Division III: Marilyn VanLare vs Bill VanLare

The weather was great and the competition was intense.  Congratulations to all of the competitors. At the end of the day, Bonnie Radke was the winner of the 2022 CMS Club Championship. Charlie Jones was the Division II winner and Bill VanLare was the Division III winner. Zak has ordered the trophies, but the presentation will have to take place at a later date due to problems with availability.

Hope to see you all on the courts.  Ciao!

We were so very proud to hear that Charlie Jones had earned enough points to be moved into the Northern District Hall of Fame. 200 Points are Required in order to earn this honor.   Yesterday Arlene gave Charlie his Hall of Fame Honorary Jacket.  Congratulations Charlie.

Charlie Jones, wearing his Hall of Fame Jacket.

This is the Hall of Fame Pin that was rewarded!

Thank you to everyone who made Fun Day a great success. Thirty-seven people
attended and many volunteers made light work of setting up the court challenges
and setting up the food court. The weather was fantastic—just enough breeze to
keep everyone cool. Here are the results:
         First Place Team Mary McConnell, Captain
                                         Loretta Cantalupo
                                          Sigrid Reichert
                                          Dick Wood
          Second Place Team Al Best, Captain
                                           Kelly Amelse
                                           Mike Myers
                                           Bill Sweet
The high individual scorer was Dennis Buelk.
Thank you to Bill and Jan Sweet for the macaroni salad, and to Steve Bruno for
the fruit salad. Thank you to Bill and Jan Sweet for also giving back their 50/50
winnings to be used for prize money.  

Thanks to Barb and John Fortini and Tom Grubb for getting this exciting event running again.