So happy to report that we had an excellent turn-out at the Meet & Greet last Thursday. We had about 40 folks show up despite the chilly weather. 

A couple of notes about games. There are four throws per side in a game, so if your team has more than four folks show up, captains will need to sort out how to rotate players in. A round consists of several games until one side reaches 12 points. We’ll need to keep games quick because there is another bocce league who plays at 6pm.

Team captains: please review the rules. I’ll come to the first month’s worth of games to make sure everyone knows how to play, but it would be nice for the captains to know them for the first game. http://www.bocce.com/rules-2/usbf-open-bocce-rules/

The courts may need to be groomed prior to play. There is a rake available at StepChange (500 NW 9th), just around the corner where you’ll go to get the balls also. If StepChange is locked up at 6:30 when you finish playing, please leave the balls at the restaurant next door, Cafe Allora.

The season starts this Thursday, June 24th with the first set of 8 teams. All total we have 32 teams! As we have so many teams that I’ve had to schedule the games so that each team plays once month. The schedule for the next two months follows.  We’ll play until the weather gets terrible again, likely into September. 

Misto means “mixed” in Italian. I’m using it here to indicate when teams are composed of individuals from different companies or are freelancers. **I’ll send email to you guys who signed up as individuals and were assigned a team.


COMPANY         TEAM NAME

June 24th
theGOOD             theGOOD
Small Society       Wonderballs
Coates Kokes       Biotcces
Liquid Agency       Deboccery
HHPR                   (need a name)
misto                     Mark Kronquist’s team (need a name)
SwellPath             (need a name)

July 1
NORTH                 NORTH of your Balls
The New Group    Bocce Balboa
tarot                      (need a name)
Anvil                      (need a name)
FINE                     (need a name)
Standard Mktg      (need a name)
52 Ltd                   52 Bocce Blu
misto                     Melissa Bearns’s team (need a name)

July 8
misto                     Wryly Bunch (Mark Riley’s team)
misto                     The Whackadoo Action Team (Jerry Hilt’s team)
SwitchYard            il rigonfiamento
Bradshaw              (need a name)
Critical Path          (need a name)
Ziba                       (need a name)
Instrument             (need a name)
StepChange          (need a name)

July 15
Cary Design          (need a name)
Pinpoint Logic       (need a name)
Sockeye                the anglers
Polara Studio        (need a name)
misto                     Kern of the Century (Buchino’s team)
BlueTech               (need a name)
misto                     individuals team #1 **
misto                     individuals team #2 **

July 22
theGOOD             theGOOD
Small Society       Wonderballs
NORTH                 NORTH of your Balls
The New Group    Bocce Balboa
misto                     Wryly Bunch (Mark Riley’s team)
misto                     The Whackadoo Action Team (Jerry Hilt’s team)
Cary Design          (need a name)
Pinpoint Logic       (need a name)

July 29
Coates Kokes       Biotcces
Liquid Agency       Deboccery
tarot                      (need a name)
Anvil                      (need a name)
SwitchYard            il rigonfiamento
Bradshaw              (need a name)
Sockeye                the anglers
Polara Studio        (need a name)

August 5
Liquid Agency       Deboccery
HHPR                   (need a name)
FINE                     (need a name)
Standard Mktg      (need a name)
Critical Path          (need a name)
Ziba                       (need a name)
misto                     Kern of the Century (Buchino’s team)
BlueTech               (need a name)

August 12
misto                     Mark Kronquist’s team (need a name)
SwellPath             (need a name)
52 Ltd                   52 Bocce Blu
misto                     Melissa Bearns’s team (need a name)
Instrument             (need a name)
StepChange          (need a name)
misto                     individuals team #1 **
misto                     individuals team #2 **