SATURDAY FEED – REAL TIME MLP COLUMBUS UPDATES
Welcome to the ‘Saturday Feed’ – your go to destination for the most current info on matches and game play happening at MLP Columbus all day Saturday. Be sure to bookmark this page and come back for the latest updates all day.
CHAMPIONSHIP COURT UPDATES:
9:00am BLQK vs. FLORIDA SMASH
Women’s Doubles: BLQK wins 21-15
Men’s Doubles: BLQK wins 21-14
Mixed 1 (Schneeman/Johnson vs. Tereschenkko/Hewett): Florida Smash wins 22-20
Mixed 2 (Esquivel/Rettenmaier vs. Todd/Navratil): BLQK wins 21-17
MATCH WINNER: BLQK 3-1
BLQK women led the entire first game. Rallies were relatively short with about 9 shots per point. Zane Navratil was on fire with 11 kills and only 3 errors. Hewett and Navratil didn’t miss a single 3rd shot. In the first mixed doubles game, there were 5 lead changes. Lacy Schneeman stood out with 11 kills and 4 errors to help Florida Smash win 22-20. The second mixed game included a 69 shot rally and too many errors by Florida Smash.
11:00am MAD DROPS PICKLEBALL CLUB vs. THE RANCHERS
Women’s Doubles: Ranchers win 21-14
Men’s Doubles: Mad Drops wins 21-19
Mixed 1 (Brascia/Arnold vs. Bright/Young): Ranchers win 22-20
Mixed 2 (Whitwell/Koller vs. Kawamoto/Ignatowich) 21-19
MATCH WINNER: MAD DROPS PICKLEBALL CLUB 3-2
Mad Drops come off the first game loss and get fired up going toe to toe with the Ranchers and pull off a win in an exciting Dreambreaker. The crowd was electric. Andiamo!
1:00pm HARD EIGHTS vs. THE 5’S
Women’s Doubles: The 5s win 21-18
Men’s Doubles: Hard Eights win 21-19
Mixed 1 The 5s win 21-17
Mixed 2 Hard Eights win 21-18
Dreambreaker: Hard Eights win 21-19
MATCH WINNER: HARD EIGHTS 3-2
This was an extremely close match with 11 ties in the Dreambreaker – ultimately Hard Eights came through in the clutch under pressure.
GRANDSTAND COURT UPDATES:
9:30am JACKRABBITS vs. LIONS
Women’s Doubles: Jackrabbits win 21-10
Men’s Doubles: Jackrabbits win 21-19
Mixed 1 (Johnson/David vs. Wilson/McMillan): Jackrabbits win 21-19
Mixed 2 – (Brascia/Stone vs. Wright/Taylor) Jackrabbits retired due to Adam Stone injury – so Lions win 21-0
MATCH WINNER: JACKRABBITS 3-1
The Jackrabbits women dominated the first game. The men were tight but the Lions just couldn’t finish. David & Johnson were in sync, powerful, and had a 3.0 K/E ratio to close out the match. Jackrabbits forfeited game 4 due to Adam Stone injury.
11:30am THE BUS vs CHIMERAS
Women’s Doubles: The Bus wins 21-13
Men’s Doubles: Chimeras win 21-19
Mixed 1 (Koop/De La Rosa vs. Stratman/Lange): Chimeras win 23-21
Mixed 2 (Barr/Burrows vs. Fudge/Tardio)
Dreambreaker: The Bus wins 21-19
MATCH WINNER: THE BUS 3-2
The women of the Bus ran away with the game, earning 8 kills each with an impressive 21-13 victory. The Chimeras men came in and won important clutch points to take it 21-19. In MX 1, there were 13 ties and 5 lead changes. Wesley Burrows controlled MX2 thrashing 12 kills, to take it home for The Bus. In the Dreambreaker, there were 10 ties and 6 lead changes.. Lauren Stratman of The Bus stood out to win 9 out of 12 points in the Dreambreaker to close it out!
1:30pm AT PICKLEBALLERS vs CLEAN Cause
Women’s Doubles: ATX wins 21-14
Men’s Doubles: CLEAN wins 21-15
Mixed 1 (Goldberg/Bar vs. Kawamoto/Frazier): ATX wins 21-8
Mixed 2 (Tellez/Ansboury vs. Staksrud/Remynse) ATX wins 21-17
MATCH WINNER: ATX PICKLEBALLERS 3-1
ATX Pickleballers pull off the update, winning all games except Men’s Doubles, and push CLEAN Cause out of the top seeding spot for the Quarter-Finals. Even with this upset, they won’t move to the quarters.
What happened in the Quarters
CLEAN CAUSE vs MAD DROPS
WD: Clean wins 21-15
MD: Mad Drops win 21-18
MX1: (Staksrud/Remynse vs. Arnold/Brascia): Mad Drops win 21-16
MX2: (Bar/Goldberg vs. Whitwell/Koller) – Clean wins 21-10
Dreambreaker: Clean wins 21-18
MATCH WINNER: CLEAN 3-2
FLORIDA SMASH VS HARD EIGHTS
WD: Hard Eights 22-20
MD: Smash 21-14
MX1: (Esquivel/Rettenmaier vs. Yates/Gaytan-Leach): Smash wins 21-13
MX2: (Schneemann/Johnson vs. Daescu/Johnson): Hard Eights win 24-20
Dreambreaker: Hard Eights win 21-17
MATCH WINNER: HARD EIGHTS 3-2
GOING INTO THE SEMI-FINALS
BLQK – looking strong with their 2 female players being in the top three of the total player standings list. They are yet to play a dream breaker unlike their opponents Clean Cause team that already part took in 2 Dreambreakers. BLQK so far in 3 matches cumulatively had 128 kills and 82 errors which gives them a healthy 1.5 k/e ratio. Clean has 181 kills and 182 errors which put that right below the equal ration of kill/error of 0.99
On the other side of the semis are Hard Eights and Ranchers. Similarly Hard Eights played more Dreambreakers than their opponents (a total of 3 of them). In terms of kills the team overall is holding 234 kills and 156 errors in the total of 4 matches they played which gives them solid 1.5 k/e ratio.
Ranchers on the other side played 2 dreambreakers in their 3 matches (skipping having to participate in QFs). Their team total kills sum equals to 157 and errors of 107. This puts them right before their opponents in a pretty healthy k/e ratio of 1.46
Here’s the schedule for the semis and the finals Sunday!!
