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The Tanglewood Pickleball team completed a succesful regular season on Tuesday with a win over Highlands Ridge.
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published: Thursday, February 07, 2013
Local Pickleball rivals meet
in South Central League play
Special to the News-Sun
SEBRING - On Tuesday, Feb. 5, the Highlands Ridge traveling team visited Tanglewood for another round of play in the South Central Pickleball League.
After three hours of hard-fought matches on a beautiful winter day in the Florida sunshine, Tanglewood came out on top, 59-8.
The Tanglewood team prevailed in 12 of 15 matches and wrapped up a highly successful regular season.
The men's A team of Jimmy Maynard and Wayne Buck finished the regular season undefeated, winning all 13 of their matches.
The B team of Mark Jones and Gary Sewell finished with a 12 and 1 record and the C team of Tom Stadler and Roger Binette finished with 8 wins and 5 losses.
The ladies A team, comprised of Diane Reynolds and Debi Yandell, finished with an 11 and 2 season record.
All and all, it was a tremendously successful regular season for a great group of Tanglewood picklers.
Tanglewood will now enter the tournament "shootout" with a first round bye after finishing first in regular season play.
Teams from Del Webb at Haines City, Lake Ashton of Lake Wales and Riverbend in LaBelle will compete against the two local teams, Highlands Ridge and Tanglewood at Tanglewood on Sunday, March 3 or Monday, March 4.