{"id":24731,"date":"2021-08-17T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24731"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T19:11:02","slug":"charity-tournament-at-chicken-n-pickle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=24731","title":{"rendered":"Charity Tournament at Chicken N Pickle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Downtown Wichita Y’s Men’s Club<\/a> held a super fun charity tournament at Chicken N Pickle<\/a> on Saturday. It was a full day affair with competitive teams in the morning and social teams in the afternoon. <\/p>\n

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Erica and I reversed matched with our Electrum tanks. <\/p>\n

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Here are some pictures from that day. Above pic is with my partner Chris Wilson and Karen Fox. Karen played in the social but came early to hang out and watch.<\/p>\n

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Here’s another picture of the three of us with Lesli Toubassi. <\/p>\n

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Here are some action shots of one of my favorite pickleball couples, Tiffany and Donnie Lesperance.<\/p>\n

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Here are some action shots of Greta Siemens and Ramon Lozano.<\/p>\n

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Here are some action shots of Hanbeen You and Kim Knotts.<\/p>\n

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Here are some action shots of Lori and Dave Belew.<\/p>\n

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Lesli, Jenny Cole, Scott Wolford, and Tiffany.<\/p>\n

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Even after we were eliminated from the tournament, we hung around and watch all of the awesome matches. Here’s Chris with Dave Belew (and his wife Lori Belew in background, deeply concentrating on something).<\/p>\n

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Many of us stayed to watch the championship match.<\/p>\n

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Scott did a great job of recruiting teams. Lots of really good pickleball players came out to play in this charity tournament which is not usually the case. It’s pretty rare that benefit tournaments attract real pickleball players. You usually end up playing with mostly beginners and maybe a couple of teams who know how to play. I think that’s why the matches were so fun to watch. <\/p>\n

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I didn’t end up staying for the afternoon portion because Brian and I had plans that night (dinner and baseball) so I didn’t get to watch Karen and her partner Ian Carr take down the championship of the social (drink in hand) tournament. Janelle Lindeman and her partner Devin Hansen took second. <\/p>\n

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I think everyone had a great time overall. Kudos to the Downtown Wichita Y’s Men’s Club for putting on such a wonderful event. I would totally do this again. Until next time. GNG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Downtown Wichita Y’s Men’s Club held a super fun charity tournament at Chicken N Pickle on Saturday. It was a full day affair with competitive teams in the morning and social teams in the afternoon. Erica and I reversed matched with our Electrum tanks. Here are some pictures from that day. Above pic is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2385,2304],"tags":[3163,3137],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24731"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24739,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24731\/revisions\/24739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}