In 1955, the horse Native Dancer AKA “The Gray Ghost” was a celebrated come from behind runner. Barely beaten by a nose in the Kentucky Derby, he came back and won the Preakness and the Belmont. We seem to have our own Gray Ghost in Jeff Raynes. He came from way behind in the last quarter of the 2018-2019 regular season to take the club championship. And now he has added a come from behind win in the Summer Pool.
In the season finale top ten table round robin, he posted a 14/7 (+73) to win the night. In game 7, he beat Allan, the previous leader. And in game 9, he beat Liz. Leaping over the two of them to finish first. Allan held on for second and Liz finished in the third podium spot. Jeff’s low score was a 10. And his 103 was one point short of averaging 13 for his 8 posted scores. Congratulations Jeff. In other news, there was a four way tie at 14 for first place. The first three places were decided by spread points and Tom with his best score of the year (14/6) finished fourth! Andy with a 13 and Frank with a 12 were disappointed to be drawing until they drew each other for a team score of 25!! Might be a record?? Kristy finished fifth with a better 13 than Andy, who by the way, needs a 14 to get his GRP bronze award. Is it possible for him to get a 13 next week and be disappointed? The summer was fun, spiced up by the summer pool and finishing with the top ten round robin. Thanks to Kristy for bringing back the summer pool and supplying the master spread sheet that made the weekly calculations possible and accurate. Thanks to Catherine for jumping on board to the unusual non-random seating final week. And thanks to Jeff Raynes for coming up with the movement that made the 10 person round robin possible. Next week, back to random seating, chasing Grass Roots Points, and drawing to 29’s. May the fives be with you. Joe G 919-847-4704 [email protected]
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Allan Simpson on the basis of a sterling 18/8 and dropping a 6 has vaulted past a host of players to edge out season long frontrunner Liz who improved by 1 point to a 98. Jeff Raynes, duplicating this summer his end of last season rush has posted a 97 lurking just behind Liz. Jeff is doing this with only one week dropped. He had 2 DNP weeks to Liz and Allan who missed only one week.
It looks like everybody else is too far back with no real low scores to drop. It will take an “Allan week” where somebody improves by 8-12 points over their low scores to scare the current top 3. It’s been fun. And now it is time for all you folks out of the money to play the mean, nasty, vindictive spoiler. Yes!!! Other notes, David had a 17/8 and was second to Allan’s game nine 31 point skunk for a 18/8. Week 12 coming up. Get ready for the envelope presentation. Joe G 919-847-4704 [email protected] Week 10 is in the books. Everybody has played at least 8 games.
There were 7 dropped scores with Tom consigning a 2 to Dante’s second door. A number of 4’s and 6’s got dropped. Catherine smiled that sweet smile of hers as she dropped an 8. That moved Catherine into as solid second, 2 points behind the absent Liz. Jeff Raynes, despite only playing 8 weeks has moved into third. With all players now having completed 8 games minimum, places 3 through 7 have collapsed like a Lawrence Welk accordion. Just not much room between them at all. And Larry, not far behind in 8th has a 3 to drop. In other news, Brian had an 18/8, losing his first game to Larry and then reeling off 8 in a row. His is the third card this summer where that has happened with Jeff Seidenstein doing it twice, once after a dead hole loss in game 1. Congrats to Brian. 2 more weeks to go. See you Monday. Joe G 919-847-4704 [email protected] 9 down 3 to go. 75% of the way through the season.
Team Estrogen, once again holds all the podium spots.. Liz, in first, improved by a point to 95 points and leads Catherine by a big 6 points. Megan edged out Allan for third through the tiebreaker of games won But from a distance behind, and from over the hill comes a charge from the seasoned senior citizen brigade to tighten things up. Larry (17), Jeff Raynes (15), Frank (13) and John Medeiros (12) all scored double digit wins. We had 6 people drop weeks this week. Frank, Jeff, and Larry still have only played 7 weeks. Everybody else has played 8 and is waiting to drop whatever foul score they have that is a blemish on their record. Once everybody has played 8 weeks, we’ll have a more true picture of the field. Jeff Seidenstein takes the week with an 18/8, the second weekly victory this season and his second one-loss card. BTW, I get this question, if you have 2 identical scores and get to drop one of them (e.g. 2 scores of 4/2), I find the worse one using worst spread and drop that one, leaving the last blemish for Dr. Pimple Popper. See you next week. Joe G 919-847-4704 [email protected] |
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