Shinkou

July 17, 2011

Well things sometimes don't work out as expected. Who would have thought my USTA team would have made it to playoffs? Had my team not been grieved on three separate occasions, yes we would have definitely made it to playoffs as we were in first place. But losing three players due to grievances and losing all those lines of win, it was doubtful. So today my team traveled to Auburn to play Round One of playoffs. We just squeaked in as the fourth place contenders. No one wanted to play. It just stunk not to have Christy, Sue or Michelle on our team. I guess we were pouting.

So Regan, Debbie, Nancy, Leslie, April, Paula, Candace and I drove up to Auburn. No one else was available. Amazing, 8 players required and only 8 players were available.

We won. We won 3 lines and lost 2 lines. Actually we might have even won 4 lines but April and I had heard we had won 3 lines and sorta gave up. That is very uncharacteristic of us to display such poor sportsmanship. We were just tired of all the drama with the grievances. I feel bad about our lack of enthusiasm. The team as a whole just wanted to be done with USTA and put this horrible season behind us. Now we had another week to play.