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Bentleague IX Recap Saturday Oct 21st -- 8:00 Net Prophets Spin Doctors Line 1 Net Prophets Spin Doctors Player 1 George Strain Hal Nei Player 2 Ty Miller Burt Dalton 6-3,6-3 Spin Doctors Chalk up a 3 and 3 for the Spin Doctors. Tough ask for Captain George against this Spin Doctor line up. Hal and Burt = Best pairing for a captain viewed by the Swami all round. Steal of the draft to date may be El Chupacabra. Good riddance round 3 and all these forced pairings. Comparing the Captains…George stayed with Miller Highlife and goes 1 and 3 for the round. Dave gets one win in the round just trying to not lose ground. Will we see Dave again? Will he be happy to play his four matches and turn into Jim Cornette? Jay and Hal get two of 3 to help their teams remain one and two overall. Now let’s get back to some normalcy in round 4 with the no sacrificing rule. Don’t forget to throw in a singles line to boot worth 2 points this round. Can Nick or the Ego beat Noah and Russ...

Bentleague IX Recap 6:00 Spin Doctors Smash City Line 1 Spin Doctors Smash City Player 1 Hal Nei Dave McGuire Player 2 David Parnell Sid Hauptmann 6-3,6-1 Smash City Line 2 Spin Doctors Smash City Player 1 Steve Jacobs Blake Powers Player 2 Burt Dalton Bentley Harvey 6-3,3-6,1-0 Smash City Line 3 Spin Doctors Smash City Player 1 Ray Brouillette Mark Fair Player 2 Joey Dunbar Nick Thompson 6-1,6-3 Smash City Line 4 Spin Doctors Smash City Player 1 Will Gement Chris Rabon Player 2 Devin Smith Seth Monaghan 6-3,6-3 Spin Doctors Line 5 Spin Doctors Smash City Player 1 Greg Gordon Ronny Regouffre Player 2 Mike Mesa Andrew McQuaid 6-4,4-6,1-F--K Spin Doctors Total Points 2 6 -- 7:30 Lobbyist Net Prophets Line 1 Lobbyist Net Prophets Player 1 Jay Blossman George Strain Player 2 Greg Eckholdt Ty Miller 6-3,6-4 Lobbyist Line 2 Lobbyist Net Prophets Player 1 Jeff Thompson Jay Butcher Player 2 Mike Lane Chris Coinon 6-1,3-6,1-0 Net Prophets Line 3 Lo...

Bentleague IX Recap Round 3 Match 1 Oct 14th, Saturday 8:00 Spin Doctors Lobbyist This one is painful to write about. Spin Doctors brought out the hammer and begin distancing themselves from the pack. Line 1 Spin Doctors Lobbyist Player 1 Hal Nei Jay Blossman Player 2 David Parnell Todd Delcambre 6-4,6-4 Spin Doctors The Captains Round! Distinct advantage Spin Doctors. Consistency and keeping errors to a minimum a pretty good formula for round 3 and no one does it better than Hal. Hell, Hairy Hal used to be a 4.5. Add the fact that these forced Line 1’s is worth two points and it could spell doom the title chasers. Two close sets but in the end, it was the Spin Doctors who won all the crucial points observed. Hairy and Pouty already have several wins notched so we may be seeing this twosome the next two matches. Swami knows the Lobbyist twosome can play better so there is a glimmer of hope for the rest of the round. Dang, just a few Parnell overheads away from...

Bentleague Recap Oct 12th, Thursday 6:00 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Line 1 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Player 1 Hal Nei Don Sharman Player 2 David Parnell Chris Coinon 7-6,6-1 Spin Doctors Line 2 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Player 1 Tyler Harper Rocky Payne Player 2 Joey Dunbar Paul Eskine 6-1,3-6,1-0 Spin Doctors Line 3 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Singles Josh Clark David Butler 6-2,2-6,1-0 Net Prophets Line 4 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Player 1 Ray Brouillette Bill Spiess Player 2 Eric Stegen Eric Daigle 6-2,6-4 Spin Doctors Line 5 Spin Doctors Net Prophets Player 1 Greg Gordon Addison Melancon Player 2 Will Gement Mitch Tucker 6-1,6-3 Net Prophets Spin Doctors Net Prophets Line 6 Player 1 Ed Dauterive Russell Anderson Player 2 Michael Schwartz Jawn Priola 7-5,3-6,1-0 Net Prophets Total Points 5 4 7:30 Lobbyist Smash City Line 1 Lobbyist Smash City Player 1 Shawn Potter Bentley Harvey Player 2 Steven Burgess Sid Hauptmann 4-6,6-3,1-...

Bentleague IX Blog 8:00 Smash City Spin Doctors Line 1 Player 1 Bentley Harvey David Parnell Player 2 Dave McGuire Thomas Domingues 6-3,7-6 Spin Doctors Youth is served, assuming Pouty Parnell is younger than Dave. On paper you might think the wily veteran (Bentley) and the mayor of Mandeville should challenge, but Lefty Domingues is on the accent and has dominated old knees twice so far this year. Righty/ Lefty combo nice find for Captain Hal because both can hold court from their respective sides. Swami sees lack of speed and lateral movement with this Smash City duo and scores back that up. I believe this partnership experiment won’t be seen again. Line 2 Player 1 Jared Williams Burt Dalton Player 2 Kenny Boudreaux Joey Dunbar 6-2,7-6 Spin Doctors Tough ask of Kenny Buttpaste and Jared (anyone else hate those jewelry commercials). 2nd win from this Spin Doctor duo proving Hal is challenging for coach of the year and not just sending out any tom dick and joey. ...