League News
2026 Newsletter
THE SEASON STARTS
Believe it or not, in less than a month we will be starting our Island Bocce league Mixed Doubles Season. Our court and shed committee say they have court maintenance well in hand. At 3PM on Saturday 6/30 we are encouraging our new members to stop by and we’ll play a practice game, going over the rules and the basics of the game.
June 1st will be our opening night with refreshments, camaraderie and cheering on the first games of the new season. We hope to see you all there.
Play and scoring will be the same as last year. The Rec Committee has asked that we double park on each other as parking has gotten difficult on busy days and nights at the park.
LOOKING TOWARD THE NEW SEASON
Congratulations, we are all on the spring side of winter and it is time to start looking forward to bocce season. Depending on who joins us this season, we are going to limit our mixed double league to 12 or 14 teams maximum. An even number of teams, will ensure that we will all have the opportunity to play each other at least once this coming season. Depending on this year’s registration response, we would like to encourage adding members to existing teams so we will all be playing with a full complement for most of our games. With this in mind, we have added the question, “Would you be willing to add new members to your team?” on the registration form. It is only a suggestion for dealing with team absences during the season. On the other hand, we would like to build a substitute pool with phone numbers. Let us know if you would be interested in joining that. We are also asking for each team to designate a lead contact person to help rescheduling weather postponed games etc. the same as last year.
As we did last year, we expect the non-throwing side of the court to judge the throwing side, and the throwing side to refrain from challenging the judge’s decisions. Also, to keep play moving, we should keep measuring to a minimum. There will be three game nights and we should all be conscious of completing our match within the allotted hour.
We will score the same as last year, awarding 2 points for each game won. In the case of a split match a tie breaker will be played. The winning team of match play will receive 4 points and in the case of a tie breaker, the losing team will receive 2 points, otherwise the losing team will receive no points. Total score for each game should be recorded and will be used in establishing standings. To be clear, teams will be ranked by number of matches won and secondly, total points scored. Please be sure to text or email a photo of the score book to Tammy DeBono at 802-579-3366 or Boo_05346@yahoo.com and she will send the scores to Bill Ryan to post them and the standings at the end of each week on the website https://islandbocceclub.com/
This year’s registration form has been distributed but if you did not get it, You can download it from the "Registration & Contact" page. Please have your registrations in before April 15th. That’s right, same day as your taxes. This way Marcia and Paula will have time to set up the teams and build the schedule. Team rosters and the season’s schedule should be published and emailed out by May 1st and adjusted and revised by May 8th. Opening day should be June 1st and we will inform you of other dates like court maintenance and pre-season gatherings when we get them sorted out.
We will open up registration to the public this year with the caveat that all past bocce teams have preference for this year’s mixed double league of 12 to 14 teams. If there is a sufficient response, we will create another mixed double league to play on Thursday to Saturday nights or mornings. I am hoping that administration of that league can be made up of its members. We will have to see how much of a response we get.
Vini, Vidi, Lusi Bocce.
I came, I saw, I played bocce.
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