I shoot in two vnea leagues and our weds night league was tied going into the last night of league. The tie breaker was games one, we were down by 4 even though we had more team points which is the second tie breaker. VNEA scoring is 1 point per solid or stripe and 3 for an eight ball. I put up a 10-0, 10-2, 10-0, 10-1 and could have had another 10-0 but came up with a huge game on a horrible table that left me no where for the last 8 ball. Put a 47-10 on my opponents, sadly, team mates struggled a little as we were shooting a great master team that is well respected, we ended up splitting the match 3-3 and lost the league in a final tie breaker on games won by 3. Had our chance. My other VNEA league night is Mondays and we had a 3 round lead over another master team. We didn't play them the last league night, but we played the 4th place team, certainly one that can ruin your night. Four rounds in this league instead of five from our weds night league. Our first player stepped up and ran the first table and that set the tone as we ended up with a 197-110 victory and secured the league championship. This was very nice as several years, one of our players left our throw together team to this master's team and coming into this year, we had another team mate jump from us to their team as well. Really, not a problem as this is not my tournament team mates, just another night out shooting in a great 16 team league which is one of VNEA's oldest leagues in their history and fields many very good teams. But, very nice on the inside knowing that losing a great player coming into this year and replacing him with a solid player, wonderful person, who just happened to run the last table of the night played a week ago to secure a 3-2 victory against this other master team to set up this weeks last league night only needing 3 round points was huge and rewarding. Final thought........... Really looking forward to banquet night as the team photo will be missing two who jumped ship and replaced with two solid players who took advice throughout the year. Guess our in tact 4 players toasted it best. " Can't take the heart out of a Champion ".
Personally, got off to a horrible start in both leagues the first month, and I mean horrible. Went to work and it's been a slow process, but, ended up a respectful 2nd overall and 3rd overall in the MVP race's. A step down from # 1 and # 2 from last year, but, solid enough to help carry us to a # 1 tie and a # 1 in teams which is truly more important. My 26th in 28 years of shooting to be part of a league championship. To all my team mates who has shared in each one, Thanks Much. They sure seem to be much more rewarding as the clock is heading towards midnight.
We won at a 84.35 % win ratio for the season to pull off the recent championship.