New Sheriff in town

There’s a new sheriff in town, ya hear?  And the name is not Reggie Hammond.  The schedule is out for 8.0 and the league has changed dramatically since last year.  The Komet lost four regular season matches in the last four years, lets call these the “W” years.  Three of those losses were to TST and one was to the Healthplex.

TST in the same term lost 6 matches, three to the Komet and one each to Frog Hollow, Upper Dublin and Springton.   Needless to say, in the W years it was the Komet vs. TST (except one year – Komet vs. Pennsbury) competing on Sunday at Districts with the winner advancing to Sectionals.

We have a new sheriff in town, and that Sheriff is the Kinetix Krushers captained by Elizabeth Tassone.  The Krushers downed TST last weekend 3-0 in straight sets! *yawn*  In addition to the Krushers (I kinda like “C” team names taking on the Kinetix “K”) there is the Tennis Addiction Pirates led by Ron Siggs who have been steadily improving and will challenge for one of the two playoff berths from our flight.

So who will it be this year?  Perennial contender and 2 time sectional making TST, the Krushers, the Pirates or that new team, what was their name – kinda hokey name – that’s the ticket – Pork chops and Applesauce. The winners should come from this group and that excludes the Boomers who with 2 wins already are already in first place in the flight!

Here is our schedule for the 2009 season:

11/7/2008 Kinetix Second String Won 2-1

11/22/2008 8Pirates  Need to reschedule

1/10/2009 Boomers 2

1/30/2009 Kinetix I

2/21/2009 Lakeside

3/14/2009 TST

3/20/2009 Kinetix Krushers

4/4/2009 Rally cats

I am disappointed that we only get 8 matches.  It’s not easy to coordinate with the local clubs but since Delaware 8.0 has 16 matches, Central PA 8.0 has 13 matches and in the last four years we’ve never had less than 11 matches – 8 is a step in the wrong direction.  But, it’s only tennis and that’s one area of my life where I refuse to get upset about anything. You  can go silly worrying about the affairs of tennis.

Another source of wonderment are the number of ex-Kometeers assuming key roles in our opponents lineups.  It’s bitter sweet to me.  Clearly we love our players but don’t lose too easily to us when the Pork chops come to visit (wink wink).   It’s just a new world out there and there are some solid lineups that we’ll have to get by if we want to advance to even the first round of the playoffs.  Let the fun begin.

Tags: Krushers, Pork chops, Sheriff