Noteworthy events from 2023 Summer Week 11

Outstanding outing(s):

  1. Bill F and Romy G each accomplished perfect 80s.
  2. Romy’s broLito (new word, but should be understandable) shot a 76.
  3. Mona T and Ed S each each tallied 73.

RAFFLE Status:

  1. Romy G was selected for the first time this season.  But there were no pictures taken of his Table 08 dry break.
  2. Sean B was selected for the first time this season.  He broke on Table 10 and sunk the 2-ball.
    • The 1-ball rested with an invitation to the NE corner.
    • Sean sent it a positive RSVP and set up for the SW corner pocket’s 3-9 combo.
    • But before shooting, he chose to cash out for 2/9ths of the available pot.  Then he shot and made the combo.
  3. The remaining raffle pot rolls over to Week 12.  

OTHER:

  1. There Goes My 80 had a missing player. The HCP impact awarded a bonus 24 points to their opponent Pocket Rattlers.  This is applicable as demonstrated by the example described in rule 20.E.i.  Despite that adjustment, There Goes… outscored …Rattlers by 15 points.
  2. An unusual situation was brought to the attention of the League Operator.  One player made a stripe on the break.  By rule, it is still an open table.
    • On his 2nd shot, he called a solid, missed it, and sank another stripe and also the 8-ball instead.   By rule, it is still an open table, but the game is lost by the breaker because of sinking the 8-ball prematurely.
    • The League Operator, when asked, ruled that the breaker got zero points because he had not yet made a called ball and therefore had no rights to be stripes or solids.
    • The BCA rules were checked but they do not use the point scoring system that we do and therefore had no guidance to provide about scoring impact.