Spring competition for Pickleball begins

Warragul Indoor Pickleball spring competition began on Thursday night.

Played at the Warragul Badminton Stadium, eight teams of five players played hard for their new teams.

There were four new players to the competition and five returning players after a short break. The fill-in list also contains a number of new players.

Paddle Pals consisting of Clare Duggan, Chris Higgs, Jennifer Kilner, Dale Hendricks and Rhonda Deppler had the biggest win for the night defeating Slice N Dice 7/135 to 3/98 and receiving 2 match points for their win.

Gavin Hammond, with new team members and a new name, continued to have close results. Net Ninjas 5/120 def Dink A Head 5/114. Team members for Net Ninjas are Gavin Hammond, Nic Willis, Craig Wills, Kylie Henderson, and Lynne Haritou.

The other games were between Smash N Dash def Dinky Dinks 7/134 to 3/88 and Kitchen Watch def Pickle Legends 6/122 to 4/125. Even though Kitchen Watch won more games, Pickle Legends won more pts on the night. Two of the games were 15/14 Kitchen Watches way but this could have been easily reversed giving the win the other way.
Number one player for Smash N Dash playing in that position for the first time, Rob Greenall, had a great night winning all four of his games, Chris Higgs as No 2 for Paddle Pals also won her 4 games and also no 3 player for Smash N Dash Mike Timpano winning his four games for his team.
During the break in September, six players travelled to Bendigo to play in the Bendigo Gold Pickleball Tournament. It was reported that it was a very tough tournament of high standard but Chris Higgs returned home with gold in her division of Skinny Singles.
Also, during the break in September, the social Tuesday and Friday hitting continued with many new players.
A special day also was held on the grand final public holiday, raising money for the West Gippsland Hospital ward three. All money raised on the day went to the hospital.
More than 30 people attended enjoying the pickleball, sausage sizzle and raffles.