Spring tournament

On a day that started out looking very dreary but ended up a beautiful Saturday MBC hosted it's 2017 spring tournament.   The Glue fixed some very tasty smoked sausage for the teams and Garrett from I'll Have Another fried some fish. 
In Roll'ems first game we faced The Clark without longtime buddy Everrett (orange hands).  We got off to about as bad a start as could happen and found ourselves in a 6-0 hole before we could get going.  We started chipping away at the lead and gradually worked our way to a 7-6 lead.  Then the Herbster and myself couldn't get anything close and let the game slip away 9-7 which put us in a big hole.
In the second game we faced Wednesday night regular champion Holy Ballz Batman and ex- super sub Fred.  The game started out close but we gradually built a lead up to 8-4.  With the pallino close to the back wall and the Holys pretty close in we decided to try and push one of their balls into two of ours that were sitting on the wall.  We couldn't have drawn it up any better as one of our wall balls got push close to the pallino and we won 9-4.
Everyone in our pool was 1-1 so both our game against Every Bocce Wang Chung and Clarks-Holy Ballz were win and be in games.  We only thought that our start in the first game was as bad as it could be as in the first frame we knocked ourselves out of a point and the Wangs into four.  In the next frame we couldn't get anything very close and they got another three for a 7-0 lead.  We finally got on the board with a single point and they put a ball very close to the pallino.  On our final throw we had one right on line until the last few inches when in moved slightly to the left but made it very had for them to get another point.  Very hard but not impossible as the Wangs made a great throw and just inched us out and they got a 9-1 win and we were out of the tournament.
Slow starts have been our problem all season and yesterday was no exception.  We've got to fix that as move to Summer season.
Wednesday night made a great showing on Saturday as Holy Ballz, Biotches, Squatchy Bocce and Here For the Beer all getting into the final single elimination tournament with the first three advancing to the semi finals and Holy Ballz and Biotches playing for the championship.  Holy Ballz did on of our numbers and got off to a slow start and lost 9-0 so Biotches were the spring champs.  Congratulations to Andrea and her crew.