Pickleball in Poinciana

On Tuesday the Polk County Senior Games were played at the Solivita Community in Poinciana, Fl which is just outside of Kissimmee near Orlando. Rich and I once considered purchasing a home here; it is an absolutely beautiful community. Since we were last here they built two more pickleball courts, so now they have seven!! And the weather was absolutely perfect for picklebll.

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Stan and Buddy partnered up in the men's 65-69 competition and since Bill was the "baby" of the group, Dean partnered with him but played down in the 55-59 age bracket. Congratulations to Bill and Dean who took first place and proudly display their Gold Medal! These two never lost a match in the winners bracket, but had to fight real hard in the medal match to win two of three. Great Games! The best part of their games was watching Margie. For the first several games she sat about two courts away and would ask the score as someone walked by. She was more nervouse than Dean. But by the medal match she bravely sat along side the rest of us and cheered the guys on!

In the ladies doubles above (top row) are avid tournament players Nadine and Louann , Jean and Sally (center) and Nancy and Jan (bottom row). Congratulations to Sally and Jean who placed third, bringing home the Bronze Medal, and to Nancy and Jan who placed second with the Silver Medal in their age division.

Rich and Gary played awesome today too winning every match in the winners bracket. The hard part about tournaments is having to wait between games. These two played their first match early, waited more than four hours for their second match and then nearly two more before they played the third. Unfortunately they could not pull off the best two out of three in the final medal match, although they had previously beaten this team 15-8. They finished in second place with the Silver Medal.

The mixed doubles competion was Wednesday. Buddy and Jean were playing together and Bruce was partnering up with Louann. Stan hurt is back on Tuesday, so he and Sally decided not to go back. Linda had declined to play in this tournament so Rich and I are waiting to hear how Buddy and Jean and Bruce and Louann made out!!