We had a great Valentine Tournament thanks to our Tournament Director Gene Moore and his efficient crew of Barbara Moore, Miguel and Silvia Cuevas with snacks and prizes and table decorations arranged be Pam Geernart and her crew of Jackie Fong, Pam Flaherty, Sharlene Zielinski and Marlys Clapp. Thanks to each of you dedicated players that participated in the tournament. The tournament results were email to our membership along with great pictures of the tournament curiously of Mark Fong.

Tournaments coming are:

1)   Men’s Singles                         Sat. & Sun.        March 27- 28

2)  Women’s Doubles                   Sat.                  April 10

3)  Sutter Medical                      Fri.                   May 21

4)  Sutter Tournament Dinner     Fri.                   May 21

5)  LITT Wednesdays                  Weds.               April 7 – May 26

LITT (Lincoln Intramural Team Tennis). Team captains volunteer or get volunteered. Teams are formed from LHTG members that sign up. Your team plays a different team each Wednesday afternoon. Matches consisting of a Women’s Dbls., a Men’s Dbls. and a mixed Dbls. The scores for each week are recorded and the team with the most points at the end of the season wins bragging rights. Look for signup information to be emailed and posted at the Pavilion soon. It is a lot for fun and you get to meet a lot of new people. Signup early.

The Men’s Doubles and the Oktoberfest Tournaments will be scheduled after June 1^st when we can schedule the pavilion.

The Nighthawks (Monday and Wednesday evening tennis group) held their third annual luncheon at Old Town Pizza earlier this month. The attendees took this occasion to acknowledge the contribution of Jack Hendricks for his diligence in coordinating the Nighthawks players and matches for the past 7 years. Well over 30 LHTG members participate as regulars or subs in Jack’s Nighthawks group.

Security at the courts remains a problem. I see a new hole burned into the windscreen on courts 8 and 9. I suspect this vandalism is done at night when no tennis players are not around. Please make sure you lock the gates when leaving the courts unless other SCLH players are waiting for the courts. I have had complaints about not being able to read the numbers on the combination locks making them difficult to open. I know Chris O’Keefe has unsuccessfully researched lock manufactures trying to find locks with larger numbers that will stand up under our conditions. I have contacted a locksmith that thought he could find such a lock but he has not called back. If any member has information where we can get locks for our gates that would be better than what we have please let me know and I will past it on to Chris O’Keefe.

Chris O’Keefe and his crew lowered all of the court roller holders at our suggestion. This makes it much easier to get the rollers in and out. We all need to learn how to store the rollers in the holders so they last longer and do not get flat spots on the sponge rollers. The rollers need to be supported on the metal braces not on the round rollers. Let us show Chris and ourselves that we can do our part to extend the live of the rollers.

 The Lincoln Hills HS tennis coach asked if LHTG could possible help out their team by furnishing them with used tennis ball? I thought this was a reasonable request as I see so many tennis ball left on the courts or thrown into the trashcans on or outside the courts. I since found out that the used balls in the container at the pavilion are used in the ball machine. If we made an effort to remind ourselves to carry our used tennis balls up and put them in the contained at the pavilion we would have plenty of used balls for the ball machine and also be able to donate to the Lincoln High School Team. I have heard that we have had some strained relations in the past with LHS tennis that I would like to resolve so we can feel supportive of all worthy community activities.

 From time to time we get requests to announce or promote activities or inform our membership of injured or deceased members. Most of these requests are worthwhile and many of them would be of interest to some of our members but we would be criticized because we included some but not others. I hope you all understand this decision and if you don’t, run for president of LHTG next year and it will come clearer.

 

     Jack Williams

          LHTG 2010 President