Bethesda Sport & Health teams dominated this season, making the playoffs except in division 3 and winning the playoffs in every division except division 4.
Here are the winners and finalists:
Premiere Division
Bethesda “Bulls of the Burbs” defeated the Shamrock Rovers (Results, The Gym) in the finals. Players in the finals:
Bryan Keating
Rod Barnes
Pablo Buitron
Matthew Dankner
Other players during the season for the Bulls: Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Ross Campbell, David Easwaran, David Moss and James Zug
Roster for the Shamrocks: Brian O’Hora, Jake Gross, Drew Blacker, Michael Aylward, Nicholas Echeverria, Alex Gross, Terry Hindermann, Matt McCormick, Andrew Maruca, Patricio Grane, Peter Van Geertruyden, John Lindquist, Juan Contreras and David McDonough.
Division 2
Bethesda swept Sports Club/LA in the finals March 23:
#1 David Easwaran 3, Richard Scott 2 — (7),(6),3,9,6
#2 Teemu Suvanto 3, Joel Vengrin 1 — 14,13,(9),6
#3 Carlos Picone 3, Donald DeVries 1 — 2,(6),9,7
#4 David Elder 3, Scott Stossel 2 — 3,4,(4),(10),2
Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: David Moss, James Zug, Sanmay Das, James Lansdale, William Barker, William Craig and Samer Sadek.
Other members of the SCLA team during the season: Lawson DeVries, Saif Ullah, Cass Sunstein, Peter Wechsler and Angel Botto.
Division 3
Regency won the playoffs 3-1 over the Sports Club/LA team:
#1 Angel Botto 1 (SCLA), Justin Stilwell 3 (Regency)
#2 Hans Paris 0, Evan Teiger 3
#3 Glenn Hurowitz 0, Steven Wydler 3
#4 Peter Wechsler 3, Abir Ray 0
Other members of the Regency team during the season: Ashley Myatt, David Ayliff, Alan Steel, Charles Kemp, Pierre Missud and Chip Hollands.
Other members of the SCLA team during the season: David Dickieson, Jonathan Staunton, Mohit Bawa, Steven De Belle, Barry Fisher and Dallan McManus.
Division 4
Bethesda brought a formidable team to Worldgate in the finals of the playoffs. Three juniors played in the finals for both teams — Geoffrey Keating and Jeremy Ho at #1 and Zachary Ho at #4.
The evening ended with both teams winning two matches each and both teams won seven games each! Therefore, the next tie-breaker process employed — to count the number of points for and against in all the games for each team. When it was all said and done, Worldgate won by 10 points. (Division 4 plays point a serve to 9.)
#1 Geoffrey Keating 3 (Bethesda), Jeremy Ho (Worldgate) 0 — 2,4,7
#2 Donald Silverstein 0, Rick Kammier 3 — 3,0,1
#3 Ari Fisher 3, Gordon Coffee 1 — 7,6,(5),2
#4 John Swain 1, Zachary Ho 3 — 10-8,0,(3),5
Other members of the Worldgate team during the season: Leslie Connolly, William Ho, Ashraf Kadri, Carson Craig and Brad Phillips.
Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: Richard Jerome, Frederic Reveiz, Tracey Gebhardt, Bill Singer, Paul Connor, Jeffrey Bede, Charles Gobin, Samuel Patterson, Arnold Gordon, Damian Williams and Paul De La Croix-Vaubois.
Division 5
Bethesda beat Results, The Gym in the finals 3-1. Two juniors played — Dimitri Halikias and Kira Keating for Bethesda. Here are the results from the finals:
#1 Sarah Davidson 3 (Results), Julio Panza 2 (Bethesda) — (4),(5),10-8,5,4
#2 Matthew Norton 1, Dimitri Halikias 3 — 5,4,(3),7
#3 John Williford 0, Andrew Lazerow 3 — 6,7,6
#4 Karin Edgett 0, Kira Keating 3 — 2,6,5
Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: Walter Kuehl, Matthew Gelfand, Alfonso Guzman, Damian Williams, Robert Garral, Mark Rees, Vernon Anderson, Charlie Koo and David Keating.
Other members of the Results team during the season: Matias Lagos, Rachel Brown, Javier Arze, Benjamin Gauss and Charles Hurt.
