Saint Patrick's Day tournament

On a brutally cold day yesterday the bocce season officially go under way with the annual St. Patrick's Day tournament.  It got off to a rocky start for the Grump Shillelaghs when Ted called and was sick.  After a couple quick phone calls BBJ answered the bell and is the newest Grumpy Shillelagh although we played together and won years ago under a different team name. 
The Glue once again made Irish Stew and on a cold day it went over great.  I had a taster bowl before we went down and it may have been the best I've had.  Tim was also there making bagels and Jay furnished chili and deer sausage.
On the draw we ended up in a three team pool with fellow Wednesday night teams Muddy Rollers and Mission: Imbocceball.  Because of the three team format we played each team twice.
In the first game we got Mission: Imbocceball who had just beat the Muddy Rollers and were playing back to back games on the same court.  They got the first three points once of which I took away from us on the last throw.  We did come back and win 9-6 though.
In the second game we jumped out to a big lead against Muddy Rollers and survived a late comeback to win again 9-6,
Muddy Rollers beat Mission: Imbocceball in their rematch so we knew we just had to win one more games to advance when we took on Mission again and we proceeded to take care of that with a 9-5 win.
There really wasn't a reason to play our last game but they wanted to so it was a kind of warm up game for us but we still managed to pull out a win.
Only one team advanced from each pool and we took on the Punishers in the final four of the tournament.  By this time the cold was taking it's toll and me as was standing all day and of course the aftereffects of the day before.  It showed in my throwing as I was off all game and we went down with a whimper 9-4 while the Punishers went on to win the tournament.
During the day we found out that the governor was closing all bars and restaurants until the end of the month.  Later on that evening it was announced the Park District was cancelling all events which includes the bocce season.