Last night was our second night of the in-house league we joined. Our team is going to be interesting because we have (4) SL2s, my and the captain are SL4s, and we have a SL5. We had a SL7 that apparently quick without playing a match. That is all of the members I have met. We lost 2-3 last night after our SL2 lost to a SL4, our SL5 lost to a SL8, and another SL2 lost to what we were told was the "worst SL2 in the league" 2-0. Only my wife and I managed to scrap together wins, with her (SL2) beating a SL5 2-1, and me pulling off a 3-1 victory over a SL4.
I played first and was quickly in the hole. This guy was shooting smooth and lights out to start. I got one chance at the table in the first game, with absolutely nothing to shoot at, and he was quickly out after that. I was feeling the nerves and just could not get myself to settle down. Luckily my wonderful wife went to the bar and got me another beer. That seemed to help a little. The second game he broke and missed on his 2nd or 3rd ball. I was able to run out from there. Two games in and we're not finished with the 2nd inning yet. This was quite the change from my match last week that last 32 innings. The 3rd game was 2 innings and I won it pretty handily and felt like I was in control finally. The 4th game I was out to an early lead, but had 2 balls in bad spots and he made a nice comeback. I don't remember how everything played out, but thankfully he missed a few shots he should have made, I rattled one that should have put me out, and then did a little dance in the corner pocket where he snuck the 8 behind my ball and left it on the ledge, and I then slid my ball past it and was able to make the 8 on the next shot.
On an even brighter note, my wife has now won her last 3 matches (2 on 9 foot tables, and 1 on a 7 footer) and is starting to get more confident in here shot. Our captain knew the SL5 that the other team had put up and made a comment about him not playing well against lower ranks. We said to put her up, and handled him. He was not happy about playing a SL2, made several comments about her not being a SL2, and even said (one of the dumbest things I've ever heard) "no SL2 brings their own break stick". I guess he didn't notice that we share the break stick, or that you can't buy talent, but whatever. Maybe he should cut back on his liquor on pool nights, because the only game he won she game him ball in hand on the 8.
Sucks that our team lost, and I'm not sure how we're going to use two of our SL2s, but the rest of the team seems to be solid as long as we're not against a team that is stacked with higher ranks and we're having fun shooting.