Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Palm Creek Medal Winners From Robson Ranch
The 14th annual Palm Creek Pickleball Tournament was held March 2, 2017 through March 5, 2017. While walking through the crowd each day of the tournament, it was obvious that a number of Robson Ranchers, both players and observers, were there to support our local club players. The Robson Ranch Pickleball Club was well represented both in the number of our players participating in the tournament as well as the number of players winning medals. According to my count (which might be a little suspect) there were approximately 151 medals awarded during the event. Of those 151 medals, Robson Ranch persons took over 10% of them. The medal winners were as follows:
Men’s
Doubles
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Skill/Age
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3.0/50+
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R. C. Weidner
Gary Christenson
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3.0/65+
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Bear Bloom
Larry Suskevich
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3.0/70+
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Don Gibson
Mike Pennington
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3.5/50+
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Ron Hunt
Lloyd Muth
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4.0/65+
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Jeff Hamrlik
Dave Wong
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Mixed
Doubles
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Skill/Age
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3.0/65+
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Pat Pennington
Larry Suskevich
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4.0/65+
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Sue Waibel
Dave Wong
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4.0/70+
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Lynne Wolf
Wayne Champagne
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4.5/65+
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Binki Thalheimer
Larry Kraus
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Women’s
Doubles
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Skill/Age
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3.0/70+
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Jean DeChristopher
Judy Gottsch
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4.0/65+, 70+
Overall
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Sue Waibel
Fay Bruns
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Doris Betuel
Bernie Bruner
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4.0/65+. 70+
Group 65+
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Doris Betuel
Bernie Bruner
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4.0/65+. 70+
Group 70+
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Sue Waibel
Fay Bruns
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4.5/50+
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Dianne Zimmerman
Shelia Parkinson
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2017
Robson Ranch Pickleball Club
Internal Tournament
Internal Tournament
The Robson Ranch Pickleball Club held our fourth annual
internal tournament on February 13th and 14th. While
intended to be primarily a social event the level of competition continues to
improve thanks to the participant’s play, an increasing number of resident referees
and the volunteer’s support.
The tournament planning and decision making was provided by
the Resident Pickleball Committee comprised of Chuck Bonesteel, Mary Burton, Wayne
Champagne, Mickie Storckman and Gerard Wittman.
Planning, organizing and work started in November of 2016 and continued
until the tournament’s end. This
committee was supported by a group of team leads in the following areas:
announcing, Gerard Wittman; court supplies, Steve Falek; check-in and
registration, Ron Graf/Sandi Feller, first aid, Mary Burton and the Eloy Fire
Department; food, Pam Phillian; and referees and line judges, Steve
Arthur. A number of volunteers who are
not identified herein due to a fear of omitting someone supported these team
leads. The Pickleball Club would also like
to acknowledge the Robson Ranch Singers for their participation in the opening
ceremonies. Finally, the club would be
remiss if we failed to thank the entire ranch community for allowing us to tie
up half of the Sports Club parking lot during our two-day tournament. A HUGE thank you goes out to everyone.
The tournament was double elimination. Competition categories were Women’s Doubles,
Men’s Doubles, and Mixed Doubles. The
skill levels were 2.0/2.5, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 plus with medals awarded to the
teams finishing first, second and third place in each category/skill level. The matches this year seemed to be even more
competitive with a large number of them going to three games in determining the
winners.
There were 117 individual players comprised of 65 men and 52
women. 55 of those players did not play
in last year’s tournament. Medal winners
totaled 72 with 24 Gold, 24 Silver and 24 Bronze medals awarded. 10 women, 9 men, and 6 mixed double medal
recipients were repeat winners from last year.
26 medal winners did not play in last year’s resident tournament. 8 women and 5 men won two medals each.
The opening
ceremonies held on the 13th included the Robson Ranch Singers
performing a wonderful
a cappella rendition of the United States and Canadian
national anthems. This was followed by the
Women’s and Men’s Doubles events. There
were 24 women’s doubles teams and 27 men’s doubles teams. After a total of 39 and 45 matches
respectively, the Women’s and Men’s Doubles Team medal winners were:
Skill Level
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Women’s
Doubles
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2.0/2.5
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Becky Barrett
Sue Roneki
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Carol Knapp
Nellie Cronewett
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Linda Farestad
Jo Parkin
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3.0
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Brenda Kline
Susan Phillips
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Sherry Riebli
Gail Mallen
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Maureen Weidner
Jackie Christenson
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3.5
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Sue Sherwood
Dennice Smith
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Jan Kinley
Jody Muth
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Sharon Vaage
Dianne Dunsford
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4.0 Plus
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Brenda Amans
Donna Duran
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Laurell Graf
Jeannine McKinna
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Sue Waibel
Barb Hager
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Men’s
Doubles
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2.0/2.5
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Dan Hennessey
Jim Uhrich
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Lorne Roneki
Joe Ward
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Jim Parkin
Mike Doyle
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3.0
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Win Oppel
Gary Christenson
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Bill Sturgeon
Bob Carlson
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Mike Pennington
Don Gibson
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3.5
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Ron Dunsford
Richard Cronk
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Jon Nees
Tom Burnside
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Michael Scoggins
Mike Casey
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4.0 Plus
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Jeff Hamrlik
Jeff Jones
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Lloyd Muth
Ron Hunt
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Mike Campbell
Dave Reese
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On the
second day, the competition was entirely Mixed Doubles in each of the
previously mentioned skill levels. There
were 42 mixed doubles teams. These teams
played 76 competitive matches to determine the medal winners in each skill
level. The winning teams were:
Mixed
Doubles
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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2.0/2.5
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Becky Barrett
Jim Uhrich
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Jon Ward
Christina Campbell
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Linda Farestad
Muns Farestad
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3.0
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Lila Nees
Larry Suskevich
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Susan Phillips
Mike Pennington
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Dongmei Lu
Mike Scroggins
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3.5
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Jody Muth
Greg Schneider
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Debbie Shipman
Brian Shipman
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Sharon Vaage
Tom McKinney
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4.0 Plus
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Jeannine McKinna
Larry Dietrick
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Donna Duran
Jim Duran
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Brenda Amans
Jeff Hamrlik
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The club looks forward to an even better and larger
participation level next year. Should
you want to take part in this fun event and get bit by the pickleball bug, you
can get started for next year. Classes
occur each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 10 AM teaching the game. You then play with a group of people having
your same skill level, while you continue to improve. This year we had a number of people who won
medals last year at a lower level move up and win medals at the higher levels.
PHOTOS will be posted soon under Pickleball Pictures in the menu listing to the right.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Robson Ranch plays pickleball for charity
The following was taken from the Casa Grande Dispatch.
By TANNER CLINCH Staff Writer
Dec 13, 2016
ELOY — Playing pickleball was the newest way members of the Robson Ranch community decided to try and come together to help disadvantaged families in Eloy, by having a tournament for all those who cared to join. Christmas tunes were blasting on the speakers while a spread of Christmas goodies awaited the more than 60 players between their matches. A suggested donation of $10 to play raised nearly $1,530 toward the Eloy Professional Firefighters charity that brings everything needed for a family Christmas to some of those in need. “We were trying to break our fundraising record from last year, which was a little over $1,000, and I’m happy to say we went well past that,” said Edie Preis, who coordinated the event with the pickleball club.
The Eloy Professional Firefighters is the union for all the EMTs and firefighters of the Eloy Fire District. Every year they do their adopt-a-family program where they deliver toys, clothes, pajamas and shoes to all the kids of some area families as well as a complete Christmas dinner, according to Scott Roninger, the president of the organization. This year they adopted four families, finding some who need it most through their line of work as well as coordinating with schools and churches in the area to make the most impact. They give roughly $500 in goods to each family, depending on how many kids they have, so this one fundraiser got them nearly to their goal, according to Roninger.
“Anything to help the kids in Eloy,” said Louise Kant, who was helping to organize the event. “And when the whole community comes out to help the kids, it’s really special.” They were helped by the Robson Ranch Pickleball Club, which has nearly 250 members and is growing every day.
The event had 64 pickleballers placed into teams of 16 with aggregate scoring throughout all the matches.
Team Reindeer got served by Team Grinch, while in the other matchup Team Santa overwhelmed Team Elf.
After working up an appetite on the courts, players were welcomed to the party catered by Flashbacks Diner in Arizona City.
“We have a great time. It keeps us off the courts and out of the liquor cabinet,” said Preis with a grin.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Membership Information Robson Ranch Pickleball Club
It is time to pay your dues for the 2017 year (January 1 through December 31.) There is a penalty of $5.00 as specified in our bylaws if we do not receive your dues by January 31, 2017. The membership form is found under the Documents Section (section 6 down the right side of this blog). To print out the form, just below the word File near the top of the left side of the page, is a printer icon which you may select to print the form.
Please complete the form (1 per club member), sign it and drop it off with your check in the south most lock box outside of court #1. Should you wish to mail your check and form, please send both to our treasurer:
Please complete the form (1 per club member), sign it and drop it off with your check in the south most lock box outside of court #1. Should you wish to mail your check and form, please send both to our treasurer:
Larry Kraus
5426 N. Commanche Drive,
Robson Ranch,
Eloy, AZ. 85131.
Please make your check payable to:
Robson Ranch Pickleball Club.
Thank you for your continued support.
The Robson Ranch Pickleball Club Board of Directors.
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