End of the Season Tennis Bash...

Featuring Dorian! Dorian and Courtney, Dorian and Evan, Dorian and Kathy. Dorian and WHAT!!!! How did Cap'n Shawn and John Whooly get in there?!? Don't they know who owns this birthday month??? I tell you this is an outrage!

Congrats to Shawn, Liz, Marybeth, Betsey, Danielle, Lisa, Susan, Ann, Dorian, Lisa, Leslie, Sam, Julie, Jeannie,& Kristine, all the women of Cedardale Green, for a great 2008-09 season run. Cap'n Shawn was honored by the club for her hard work with a traditional Cedardale navy blue fleece jacket. Not a vest like Courtney is sportin' here, ladies, a whole JACKET!

On High Alert

April 2009. Top epidemiologists, the international community, and the World Health Organization (WHO) braced for the spread of the potentially deadly H1N1 virus, a unusually virulent strain the likes of which hadn't been seen since 1918. The U.S. responded swiftly urging citizens to be vigilant in their hygiene practices in order to delay the impending pandemic.

Daring to look death in the eye are Cedardale A1 players Dorian Brown and Susan Dwyer. The two risked it all by heading, with their families and rackets in hand, directly to Mexico for a week. Pictured here, clearly under the influence of tropical adult beverages, are the mavericky Brown and Dwyer who were quoted in saying, "the hiney flu is for sissies." Brown was interrogated by Boston Globe reporters upon her return to Logan International where she claims her experience to have been "unremarkable."


Continuing to mock the WHO and the flu at the club, Dwyer and Brown donned latex gloves for post match handshakes, faked "uncovered" coughing fits, and casually stated that their Mexican accommodations had been "on a farm." Sadly, the ultimate consequence would be across the back of Dorian's son, twelve year old Trevor Brown, who was banned for ten days from the Georgetown Middle School carpool.

Just released from the photogs...

The Ladies: Dorian Brown, Kathy Nielsen-Dube, Julie Menezes, Shawn Licari, Sam Tripani, Susan Dwyer, Ann Tavenner , Lisa Brennan, & Linda France

Cedardale Green vs. Lexington

Hard to believe that we just played our last match of the season, ladies. And what a great run we have had in our debut to Women's A1 tennis! For the final line-up we all agreed to wear our red, black and white team colors, which obviously explains why Jeannie needed to call for a sub. Going out in a blaze of glory is our Cap'n who claims to have exhibited unsportsmanlike conduct on Court One. I personally saw nothing of the sort. Her opponents didn't file a grievance, no one cried, and all four women walked uninjured off the court at the end of the match. Really, how unsportsmanlike could it have been?

Danielle and Marybeth went to a tie-breaker, and even though Danielle was sporting her good luck circa Flashdance headband, they lost in the tie break. Would-you-puhleeese-eat-a-cheeseburger Lisa Raess and Leslie Bisson (who should eat a dozen or two) rocked us a team point. Lisa Brennan and our formidable sub, Linda France, had to fight to bring another point home and did. Ann and Susan, who are still being pursued by international modeling agencies, were schooled by a dayhiker just in from her monthly National Audubon Piping Plover meeting. Now that's just wrong. WRONG I tell you.

Julie and Sam, our dynamic duo of sweetness, put up a great game against the backboard sisters while Dorian and I attempted a push for a fourth consecutive win next door. Best Divine Ms. D quip du jour: "Anything traveling that fast should have a flight attendant on board!" Add an overly distracting '80s hair accessory and repeated Eastern European accented tennis commands from our opponents and you KNOW where this one ended! Maybe we could buy a few things for Marcel to sport during practice to help with some desensitization therapy. The goggles clearly aren't enough!