Sunday wasn't a practice, totally forgot about our club competition. A 4 round snake of triples, teams drawn randomly from a hat. Won this last year and therefore pressure was on to retain it, but it would all depend on the draw....
The draw wasn't bad, drawn with a realtive novice club player and Mags (who can shoot and point) so it looked like we'd be in with a chance.
We had a tight first game against Sandy, Howard and his son James, who at just 9 years old looks to be a star in the making. The game was tight, we won 13-11 in the end and we were relieved to get a win. We won the next 2 games 13-9 and 13-0 respectively to set up a final match against the only other team to win 3 games so far, in the shape of Henry (a ringer from Perth), Mari (in her first season) and old Monty.
Henry and Mari pointed very well, despite there being a tirade of swearing in Finnish from Mari, most of her shots were on the money - will have to Google these swear words as she will not tell us what they mean! Monty hit everything which left us in tatters to be honest, we consistently wasted 3 or more boules each end and were therefore on the back foot for the whole match. Giving up 7 points in the first 2 ends proved to be too big a hurdle to overcome and we lost 13-6 in the end in front of a crowd, the other matches having finished well before ours.
A frustrating afternoon, whilst finishing 2nd is no disgrace, it's been the story of my season. Inconsistent play is my biggest problem at the moment, which I guess can only be solved by practice. It's true I have not practiced as much as I should have this year. With the season drawing to a close rapidly I'll have to be regimented about practice in the winter months to ensure, come April, I can hit the ground running to avoid the usual slow start to the year.
Off to Stirling next weekend for their Open competition. Hopefully a few of the strong teams will turn out and make it a competitive day.
Thanks for reading.
No comments:
Post a Comment