{"id":28010,"date":"2023-07-20T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28010"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T20:46:59","slug":"big-bang-at-the-pickle-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=28010","title":{"rendered":"Big Bang at the Pickle Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a good team tournament? We celebrated the 4th of July weekend with a BANG at the Pickle Club on July 2. Six teams participated in a team event. Here are some highlights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Bang Video v2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l28In4YO74s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all the teams that competed. It was so much fun watching the amazing play that day! <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Smart Aces (first place<\/strong>) &#8211; Natalie Lubbers, Mitch Spencer, Greta Siemens, Mark Nola<\/li>\n<li><strong>Karen &#038; the Youngsters (second place)<\/strong> &#8211; Matthew Rochat, Huyen Nguyen, Karen Fox, Ian Carr<\/li>\n<li><strong>Just Here to Bang (third place)<\/strong> &#8211; Kimberly Howe, Susie Ternes, Branden Stephenson, George Osborne<\/li>\n<li><strong>All in the Family<\/strong> &#8211; Tanner and Britney Blaske, Stacy and Daniel Lyon <\/li>\n<li><strong>Mid Court Crisis<\/strong> &#8211; Fernando Martinez, Amanda Ades, Krista Crawford, Sean McKinney<\/li>\n<li><strong>Explosive Dinks<\/strong> &#8211; Colby Fugit, Tommy Chau, Micah Jacques, Mandy Maness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I cannot wait until we can actually host a real <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialminorleaguepb.com\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minor League Pickleball<\/a> event here in town. Until then, we will have to settle for these knockoff tournaments which, while they are fun, do not compare to the real deal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who doesn&#8217;t love a good team tournament? We celebrated the 4th of July weekend with a BANG at the Pickle Club on July 2. Six teams participated in a team event. Here are some highlights. Thanks to all the teams that competed. It was so much fun watching the amazing play that day! Smart Aces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3419],"tags":[3553,3414,3552,3409,3532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010"}],"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=28010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28015,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28010\/revisions\/28015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}