Wassail Bowl

January 12-14, 2001

We played three games this weekend and came away with a record of 0-3. With the college tournament the following week, we used this chance to gain some experience playing together as a team. We had a rough start in the first game with everyone playing quite poorly. Off-broom deliveries and bad sweeping decisions caused us to quickly fall behind and to eventually lose the first game by a wide margin. Fortunately, we improved from game to game and almost earned a chance to play on Sunday. Dave Fink watched our dramatic third game on Saturday and gave us some helpful encouragement and advice.

The Wassail Bowl Team under bad lighting

A-Wand'ring
-----------
Raymond Szeto       skip
Brent Yen           vice
John Viloria        second
Charles Bronowski   lead

Game 1:
1st event, sheet 2
Herb Kupchik, Steve Nelson, Karen Brothers, Paul Janzen
1-14 (conceded after 7th end)

A-Wand'ring  7
-----------  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 
So Fair          1       2 3   4     5     6

Game 2:
2nd event, sheet 1
Clark Neill, Bill McDiarmid, Sharon Eikenberry
4-6

A-Wand'ring    1 2 8
------------ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 
We Want Some   3 4 5 6 7

In end 3, we had 4 or 5 rocks counting, but their skip mad a perfect draw to the button to get one back.

Game 3:
3rd event, sheet 4
Chuck Mitchell, Spiro Karigiannis, Rosemary Westra, Carol Keating
5-6 (lost in extra 1/2-end)

Before the coin flip, the opposing skip attempted to affect the outcome of the game by offering free food and beer. For the first half of the game, Dave helped MIT's skip and vice analyze shots in the house. The game was decided in the 9th end where each player was allowed to throw one rock. Red won with a stone biting the back of the house.

(red)
A-Wand'ring      1   3 4 5
---------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14    blank
Among the Leaves   6 7   8 9                           2
(yellow)

Ray's notes on this game:

Game 3: They had hammer??. Us 1, Blanked end 2, Us 1, us 2, us 1, them 2, 
them 1, them 2. Game tied at 5 points each. 4 rocks each team for end 
number 9, the were biting, i had hammer. house entirely open. i was light 
and ice got slow, game over. As for end 8, i screwed it up. same take outs 
twice and missed both wide...so that's why we lost those 2 points and the 
game tied. But it was fun. BTW, Dave was coaching up until we were up by 5 
points.

Bug racing at the Wassail Bowl
Of minor note during the weekend was the Wassail Bowl bug race.
Each team was given a plastic wind-up toy bug as a door prize.
Race winners won prizes.

Thanks to Brent Yen and Ray Szeto for their summaries.

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