The spring season’s unpredictable bocce schedule has made it difficult to keep up with our weekly Change You Can Bocce recaps. I realize this has been a major inconvenience for the entire DC Bocce League, since each and every member experiences their share of awesomeness vicariously through our adventures. In any case, the playoffs start tomorrow, so you’ll have to deal with this ultra quick week 4-6 recap…
Week 4: The Teals Have Eyes
Our first experience playing on the declined portion of the park ended in disappointment. Deboccery took full advantage of An-HUGE, the Captain, and Dr. Clutch’s inability to master the slopes and won handily, 16-7. Despite losing, we had fun, and that’s really what bocce is all about. Well, fun and winning. But, mostly just winning.
Week 5: Tuesday Night Lights OUT!
One week after losing to Deboccery on the slopes, An-HUGE and the Captain returned for redemption. We immediately bolted to a 3-0 lead over our Texas Orange-colored opponents, Tuesday Night Lights, who were confused and intimidated by our intimate knowledge of the sloping greens. Unfortunately, they responded to our quick start with an unprecedented 16-0 run. Had we not been preoccupied with our own loathing and self-doubt, we might have noticed the nuclear explosion that was apparently taking place in the background.
Week 6: Leave it to Beaster
Leave it to The Beast to recapture the momentum and turn our season around. In perhaps the most closely contested bocce match in recent years, The Beast called his shot and then landed his ball of fury right next to the polina just as time expired for a 16-15 win. It was classic Beast. Though Step Off Biocce came up short this time, we expect to see them again in the playoffs. We’ll beat them then, too, but that’s another story.
June 1, 2009
games, ridiculous, Washington DC