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Summer Newsletter
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Summer Paddleball Events

The Outdoor, 3 wall, tourney in Belle Isle, MI on June 15th to 17th. We have been invited to participate in this long standing outdoor racquetball event. This will be a doubles event. Details to come.

The 36th Annual Pig Roast and Human Sacrifice will be held July 21st in Kalamazoo, MI. The tourney runs from 9am to around 3 at the Bronson Athletic Club, followed by a pig roast at the VFW (with great food, music and horseshoes). This is a grab-bag doubles tourney with Open and B divisions.

The WOR Las Vegas outdoor tourney September 19th to 23rd. This is the 2nd year that paddleball has been invited to this great racquetball tournament. It is a doubles event and will most likely offer Open and B, with a rolldown division for the first round losers. If you didn't go last year - just ask someone who did - it is a great time!!!

National Doubles Resuts
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CALIFORNIA KIDS WIN NATIONAL PADDLEBALL TITLE

By LOU GIAMPETRONI
The West Coast “kids” beat the older guys in the 2012 NPA National Doubles Championships final April 15 at the Michigan Athletic Club in E. Lansing, Mich.
The kids -- Emmett Coe and Brian Pineda -- topped the defending champions, Mike Wisniewski and Todd Entrikin, 11-21, 21-19, 21-11.
It was a show of strength as Coe and Pineda hit laser shot after laser shot in the second game and tiebreaker.
It was amazing how much power each generated. They’re not very big, especially Coe who looks like an eighth-grader with a beard.
Coe, 20, of San Diego, and Pineda, 25, of Fountain Valley, CA, each won their first major open paddleball championship.
Wisniewski, of Bay City, MI, who will be 55 in August, and Entrikin, 31, of Perris, CA, each has won four national doubles championships.
Wisniewski also has won nine national singles titles, the most of any player.
After Wisniewski and Entrikin won the first game without too much trouble (they led 8-3, 12-6, 16-8 and 18-11), Coe and Pineda got into the swing of things and started scoring points.
The second game started with Whiz-Entrikin taking a 9-4 lead, but then Coe-Pineda tied the score at 9 and 12 before taking the lead for the first time, 13-12. It went back and forth until it was tied at 19.
Pineda got a point for the lead, 20-19, and then Wisniewski skipped a shot and the kids had new life.
During the break before the third game, Entrikin -- who was frustrated because he pretty much was kept out of the action -- said “I can’t get a shot.” There was quite a bit of conversation between Whiz and Entrikin throughout the match.
It was very obvious that the kids went to the left side-playing Wisniewski almost exclusively in the last two games, with Entrikin trying to cross over and take some shots.
But Coe-Pineda seemed to be on a mission. They set up for a powerful shot almost every opportunity. They rarely were on the defensive.
It was a pretty even start in the tiebreaker until Coe-Pineda took an 11-10 lead. From then on, nothing seemed to work for Whiz-Entrikin, who got only one more point.
The kids kept upping their margain -- with Coe finishing off a spectacular effort with an easy kill, 21-ll.
Afterward someone said to Entrikin: “Tough loss.”
“Not for me,” he said. “I didn’t hit the ball.”
Coe-Pineda defeated Andy Mitchell and Kevin McLaughlin, 21-15, 19-21, 21-16, in a semifinal.
Wisniewski-Entrikin topped Joe Baldori and Sam Baldori, 21-8, 21-8, in a semifinal.
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