Unity in Sportsmanship
The following members have been elected to board positions for the upcoming year:
– Thayer McDougle, Vice President
– Crystal Kelem, Treasurer
– Joe Belenson, Co-Head Referee
– JM Reasonda, Member at Large
We also collected nominations for the Jim Tingle sportmanship award and will announce the winner at the season-ending party in February.
Thanks to all who voted. Please let Thayer, Crystal, Joe, and JM know how much you appreciate them volunteering their time to help the league!
Happy Thanksgiving to all SFPA members! There will be no league matches on November 21, but sponsor bars should be open for free play.
Ballots were delivered by email for board elections and the sportsmanship award. Please let a member of the board know if you didn’t receive a ballot and we will get one sent out to you.
Express interest in running by November 7
Submit design by November 14
Tomorrow, October 31, is the first of our three leaguewide bye weeks this season. Please feel free to get dressed up in your best costumes and play some free pool at one of our sponsor venues!
Congratulations to the following players for their high finishes in the 9-ball tournament at Family Billiards yesterday:
1. Joshua Maldonado, Happy Lounge Rawhides
2. Skip Perry, Route 101 Nomads
3. Thayer McDougle, Pilsner InnDecisives
4. Justin Anderson, Bus Stop Flyers
Congratulations for making it to the halfway point in the regular season! We send a special welcome and props to our new venues, teams, and players.
Next Tuesday will be the first of three weeks off this season – the weeks of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We encourage you to frequent our sponsor bars and take advantage of the open tables.
We have two tournaments coming up at Family Billiards:
– The 9-ball finals are almost fully set and will feature 16 qualifying players this Sunday, October 29.
– In early December, the Bernie King handicapped event will be contested. This will be a fundraiser for cancer charity.
The t-shirt design contest for the 9-ball tournament is open. As in previous seasons, the winner of the contest will receive free dues in Spring 2024. Please send your design to a member of the board by November 14.
Nominations for four board positions are also now open: Vice President, Treasurer, Member at Large 2, and Head Referee 2. If you are interested in volunteering your time to help the league by serving in one of these positions, please let a member of the board know by November 7.
Additionally, we are looking for a new webmaster. Our web presence has two major elements – the home page and the scoring app. Neither of these requires advanced skills, but the webmaster should have good facility with computers and attention to detail. The home page is run from WordPress while the scoring app was developed by former SFPA member Paul Krohn. The primary time contribution involves setting up matches in the scoring app and finalizing scoresheets after league nights. The webmaster traditionally becomes an at-large member of the board.
There have been an unusual number of rules questions coming up so far this season. When these situations arise, we encourage you to be respectful to your opponents and try to handle the situation amicably. If needed, please reach out to our co-head referees Joina Liao and Jerry Ball. At least one of them should be available during league nights to help answer any rules questions and resolve disputes. Players should remember the principle of Unity in Sportsmanship, which will always be more important than winning or losing a particular game.
Good luck with the rest of the season and happy playing,
Skip