Brew City Battle

The boys had one more out of town tournament in January before finishing up the season locally.   We traveled to Milwaukee (again) but this time played downtown.   Our hotel was just a block's walk and there were places to eat (and Starbucks), so it was super convenient.   The best part of the weekend was that the boys were on fire!   They breezed through Saturday until losing the last match which was full of questionable / annoying calls. But they battled through the Gold Bracket on Sunday to come away with a third place finish (including a win over Friday's loss).

Unfortunately we didn't get a team photo with all of the boys.   Eeshan was late on Saturday due to a conflict and Jonas was out on Sunday due to illness.   But between the two days, this is the full team.

Some action shots between the two days.   They wore their Arizona Iced Tea customs on Saturday and black on Sunday.   Adding to the excitement was that our Coach's 18s team had overlapping matches for much of Sunday.   We had a substitute coach plus our student coach, Andrew, for several sets.   The boys rose to the challenge during all of it.  

 

John keeps buying Yeti cups and koozies at Ace Hardware, since he says they're on sale.   This new mug was good for the car drive since it has a straw.  It wasn't amazing courtside since it was so small.  William also told me that I wasn't on trend since most women and girls carry oversized Stanleys and not medium sized Yetis!  I got a really big kick out of that because it sounded like he was trying to educate me on what's going on out in the world.   I have the socials...I've heard. LOL.

(Photo cred: Andrew's dad)

Also on Sunday was the Chiefs vs. Ravens playoff game.   There were quite a few people wearing Chiefs gear at the courts and streaming the game on their devices.  When I was walking laps through the rest of the convention center during their ref match, I "watched" part of the game over this balcony.  

Wrapped up the long weekend with a win, a medal and a 2 hour drive home in the dark.   John wasn't able to join us because he was home dealing with a flooded basement.   Our sump pumps failed to keep up with the melting snow, so we lost our carpet and baseboards.  Luckily the remediation was done quickly and the walls didn't get  damaged and everything dried out.   New sump pumps were installed relatively quickly and the floors and trim are on order.