Noteworthy events from 2023 Spring Week 14

Outstanding outing(s):

  1. A perfect 80 score was accomplished tonight by both Mike M and Mike B.
  2. Mike K contributed 76 and therefore officially established this as “open Mike night.”
  3. Mike H was absent, so Jerry R’s 75 points completes this week’s list of outstanding outings.

RAFFLE Status:

  1. Nancy K got picked for the 2nd time this season.  Her Table 12 break shot  elicited a last-moment audience shrill because the 1-ball entered the jaws of the SE corner pocket and stayed there for all to see.  No other balls were close to a pocket.
  2. Her teammate Jeff H fared much better on his Table 11 break.  The 4-ball dropped and the 6-ball dropped almost immediately after it.  The cue-ball sat within comfortable reach from the NW side of the table.  The 2-ball posed a threat to a good hit on the 1, but Jeff didn’t take much time to prove that it could be done cleanly.  He sank the 1 into the SE corner and got a clean look for the 2-ball into the south side pocket.  However, it wasn’t an angle he liked, so he cashed out earning one third of the available pot.
  3. The remaining raffle pot rolls over to Week 15.

OTHER:

  1. If anyone found a black CLAW cue stick holder in the past two weeks, please arrange returning it to Sam B.
  2. This was one of the rare nights when every team (BYE team excluded) had a full set of four players in action.
  3. Speaking of rare, there was an unusual abundance of people seeking the League Operator’s attention between 9:55 and 10:08pm – right at the height of raffle selection and execution time.
  4. Speaking again of rare, the league operator was called upon to watch a hit on Table 07.  That in itself isn’t rare, but the table configuration was peculiar.
    • There were two object balls wedged in the SE corner pocket such that each was adjacent to that pocket’s two convening rails.
    • Both balls were solid and the shooter (Kevin C) was shooting solids and had no other solids at which to shoot.  He also had an opponent object ball interfering with a clean hit.
    • By rule, once the cue-ball hits a legal object ball, there must be a ball made or a rail struck.  The two balls already adjacent to the rails would not count as striking a rail unless they hit a rail after having departed their adjacency.
    • Kevin shot, kicked the cue-ball off the NE rail, the cue-ball struck both legal object balls leaving them still wedged and then the cue-ball caromed off the object balls into the SE rail for a good hit.
  5. Next week is the final week of scheduled matches this season.
      • There are currently eight different individuals with a viable shot for the Top Shooter title (more than usual with just one week to go).
      • Only two teams have a mathematical shot of finishing the season with an average of at least 315 points per week (the amount of points typically required to finish 3rd place or higher).