Category: Sports

Pickleball Players Sweep Up Tournament Medals

Andrea Dilger and Renee deLassus are a winning women’s doubles team.

Cynthia Schwartz PebbleCreek Pickleball Club players are winners! From September 2019 to March 2020, almost 120 club members participated in 16 local pickleball tournaments in men’s, women’s, mixed doubles, and singles events. What draws players to the tournaments is competition. Our members won 364 medals across age and skill categories. Topping the list is Lyla…

PCM9GA Continues to Support Luke Spouses’ Club Fund

Christopher Mucha Even in these trying times, the PCM9GA continues its support of the Luke Spouses’ Club Scholarship Fund. This program was our top charity beneficiary last year, when we provided them with $6,000—28% of the total amount they awarded to worthy scholarship recipients. Even though our primary charity tournament has been postponed because of the…

PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association Registration

Fred Dresser With the spring season being cancelled due to the coronavirus, the PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association is looking forward to the 2020-21 fall/winter season. Registration for the aforementioned season will begin on Monday, June 1, and close on Monday, August 17. Registration can be found at pcssaquickscores.com. The 2020-21 season promises to be a…

Tennis Player of the Month: Dan Clinton

Dan Clinton

Dennis Whitley What do helicopters, Bill Gates, and Singapore have in common? Not much really, but all three were part of Dan Clinton’s life before PebbleCreek. Dan was born in California, but spent most of his childhood and adult life in Oregon. After completing his ROTC at Oregon State, Dan enlisted in the Army and…

All Quiet at the Ballpark

Fred Dresser Needless to say, the ballpark is quiet as the coronavirus shut it down in March. The PebbleCreek Senior Softball Association (PCSSA) shut their season down with six games left to play. With the season being cancelled, the players are looking forward to the 2020-21 season that will begin in October. This past season marked…

Bocce News

Happy Father’s Day from the PC bocce board members and the Thursday night teams: Team 06-U-Nighted 40 and 02-Untouchaballs. Photo was taken prior to the closure.

Carolyn Rota Yes, it’s hot, but it’s also Arizona in June. While you are reading this article, we all hope that our community is starting to safely open up and we are once again able to enjoy all the reasons why we live in this beautiful PebbleCreek (PC) active adult resort, but it must be…

Pickleball Players Head to the Hills

Ellen Enright, Lynn Banks, Karen Kattar, and Karen Weldon hiking at Skyline Regional Park

Cynthia Schwartz For those who love pickleball and play several times a week, the shutdown of the courts has been an opportunity to explore other kinds of physical activity and fun. A group of women in PebbleCreek have kicked off their court shoes, found their hiking boots, and headed to the hills. Ellen Enright decided…

Men’s 3.5 Tennis Championship

Jim Meyer The PebbleCreek Men’s 3.5 Tennis Team lost a close match in the division championships to Trilogy at Vistancia. Team members shown include (left to right): Wayne Cox, Jim Meyer, Eric Rohlman, Cliff Hopes, Rick Camozzi, Keith Constable (captain), Ed Elliott, Mike Harter, Jonathan Colter, and Troney Hutchins. Not shown are Jim Lewis and…

Tennis Is Back!

PC tennis players Donna Armbruster, Jo Werner, and Shelley Bain (left to right) were practicing social distancing on the first day of phase one on the Tuscany Falls tennis courts.

Norma Whitley The PebbleCreek (PC) Tennis Club is overjoyed with the return of tennis at PebbleCreek. Members of the tennis club patiently awaited the reopening of the courts. On May 8, the green light was given for phase one of the gradual return to normalcy in this community. The members of the PebbleCreek Tennis Club…