League News
A New Season
A new bocce season will soon be upon us. We are looking forward to seeing some old faces and hopefully some new faces to join us this year. We welcome all interested parties to join us. Fill out the Membership application which allows you access to the shed that contains bocce balls, court broom and scoreboard for you and your family. Dues are $15 for an individual, or $30 for a family. Also, if you currently have a team, please fill out the IBC Doubles League application. If you are short a player or two perhaps we can fill those slots with new players.
If you have any suggestions or thoughts about the upcoming year’s season, please email Glenda Leake our commissioner. She'd love to hear from you. gleake@aol.com.
Continue to keep an eye on this site. Perhaps before the season starts we can all get together and discuss rules, start times and scoring.
Tentative Schedule
To the right you will see a tentative schedule for the upcoming season. We've used numbers rather than team names as at this stage we do not know how many teams will be playing, who they will be and who will be on them. The posted schedule is for 11 teams as we had last year.
You will notice that with 11 teams, there will be a single game on Tuesdays to accommodate the odd number of teams. If we go to only 10 teams, we can delete the Tuesday game and if we expand to 12 teams we can double up on Tuesday.
As much as we all enjoyed playing each other twice in the past, it lengthened the schedule to the point of waning interest. If you would like we could discuss creating a fall league if there is any interest
About Referees
In general we've asked players from a team playing earlier or later in the evening to referee the match they are not playing in. It makes for a long night for them, especially if they've skipped dinner to ref. But in cases where matches have been moved to accomodate conflicting schedules, where there is no second game, we've suggested that the side not throwing referee the side throwing, with both teams conferring. As far as we've heard, this has worked well enough to consider using the method of refereeing for all our games. Comments are welcome.
