Carolyn Rota The winter bocce leagues ended on March 26. With the cooperation of all the teams that played, we were all safe and healthy and are ready to start the spring leagues. It was, once again, decided to make a donation with the prize money to a worthy organization. On Tuesday night, first place was…
PCLGA’S Sandra Nielson Scores Her First Ace! Cindy Sota On April 25, golfing with her husband, Bob Burghdorf, and good friends, Michelle and Denis Cattin, a beautiful Arizona day was about to become very memorable for Sandra Nielson. Sandra teed off on the 17th hole, Par 3 of Tuscany Falls East, the yardage was 145…
Cynthia Schwartz The 2020-21 PebbleCreek Pickleball Club board organized and hosted the Pancho Epstein PebbleCreek Pickleball Club Championship. More than 130 doubles teams competed over three days for medals in skill level brackets. Wade Johnson, tournament chairman, was assisted by other board members and a team of club member volunteers. Thanks go out to the…
David Zapatka This 12 common mistakes column began after playing with some very excited, highly motivated, new pickleball players at our community courts recently. After playing a couple games, this question was posed to me, “What should we do to improve and become 3.5 players?” We reviewed the first 10 mistakes over the past five…
Debbie Welsh The Racquettes 4.0 ladies’ tennis team plays in the West Valley Women’s Tennis League. The 4.0 senior league 50+ division comprises eight competing teams, which includes the Sun City communities, Happy Trails, Trilogy, Corta Bella, and Westbrooke. The Racquettes ended the 2020-21 competitive season as the finalist in second place. Indeed, this was a…
Vikki Constable If you were fortunate to have strolled by Tuscany Falls tennis courts 9, 10, and 11 on April 20, from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., you would have seen six women playing for PebbleCreek. They fought hard to retain first place in the Women’s InterClub Tennis League (WITL) B3 Division against defender and third place…
Sue White Several members of the Gimme Girls Golf Group and their friends went on a two-day golf trip to Ranch De Los Caballeros in late April. They played the Los Caballeros Golf Course two days in a row. There was a competitive game each day, along with a longest putt and closest to the…
Kathy Sheard The PCL9GA is proud to present a new, encased bulletin board to the head golf professional at Eagle’s Nest, Ronnie Decker. When asked by PCL9GA President Bobbie Wagner in the fall of 2020 what would be one of the items on his wish list that the Lady Niners could help with, he suggested the…
Cynthia Schwartz Pancho Epstein was one of the founders and a dear member of the PebbleCreek Pickleball Club. In April, the club celebrated his life by hosting the 2020-21 Pancho Epstein PebbleCreek Pickleball Club Championship. Pancho is remembered for his enduring, endearing, irreverent, comical, positive, and always entertaining contributions to pickleball in PebbleCreek. Bob Chester, PebbleCreek Pickleball…
Kathy Sheard The PebbleCreek Lady Niners would like to present the new executive board officers for the coming year: President Diane Burns, Vice President Patti Engelhardt, Secretary Pat Hacker, and Treasurer Ellie Kovach. We thank the new officers for their commitment to the Niners. We look forward to an exciting year!