Tuesday Men's League Event 11 Recap

The July Match Play Tournament started with the #2 seed as well as last year's champions making an early exit.  Dennis Brosmer and Tom Trambaugh, the 32 seed, fired a net 66 to beat the #2 seeded team, Skip Ackerman and Mike Strawn (subbing for John Walker) by a single stroke.  Last year's champs, Mike Albertson and Mark Jones, fell to #4 seed Jordan Divine and Mitch Jeffers by a score of 66 to 74.  In the 16 matches on the day, nine were won by the underdogs while seven went to the favorites.  The #1 seeded team, Curt Johnson and Tyler Walton, beat the short handed team of Tim Voegerl and Warren Atkison (unable to play), 71 to 73.  The #3 seeded team,  Tom Walker (with Vic Wallace subbing) and Mike Bird, advanced by beating Wayne Souerdike and Joe Allen by four strokes, 64 to 68.  The tournament continues next week with eight matches and, again, with the net team score for nine holes determining the winner.  Weeks three through five will be played in head to head match play format.

In regular season action, Mark Potts at 33 and James Hager at 34 turned in the low gross scores for the day.  Vic Wallace with a 28 and Jordan Divine with a 29 had the low net scores.  Team low net was a 64 shot by Vic Wallace and Mike Bird.  John Drake shot a net 35 and increased his slim lead in the individual standings.  At 844 points, he leads second place Jordan Divine by eight and third place Skip Ackerman by nine.  In team competition, the Tom Walker/Mike Bird team, with an assist from Vic Wallace, took over the top position on the strength of their 62 point day.  Their 458 points leads the John Walker/Skip Ackerman team by a scant six points and last week's leaders, Curt Johnson and Tyler Walton, by seventeen points.  Hole prizes were claimed by Dave Wininger, Travis Brett and Mike Breeden with close to the pin shots, and by Jordan Divine, Mark Potts and Short Jeffers with long putts.  Average gross score for the group was 42.68, up a bit from the 41.86 of a week ago.