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Seiche
(Paula DeTemple)
earned her FD |
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Disney
(Mari Pavleje)
earned her FM |
On Saturday, the
team lost only one race out of six and finished tied with
High Five's Get a Grip (one of MDTC lifetime member Patti
Muraczewski's teams). Because our team beat High Five's in
head-to-head competition, Great Balls of Fur was awarded first
place.
The team lost only one race (out of five)
on Sunday, too, but High Five's was undefeated and took first
with GBF finishing second.
Although the team finished very well in
the final standings, that is not usually how the team judges
whether a tournament was successful or not. Two other areas
are equally important. One is how the team ran, and this weekend,
all the dogs ran consistently with very few mistakes. The
other area is points earned toward NAFA titles. The team did
well there, too, earning the maximum points they could in
most of the heats they ran.
Two dogs even earned new titles. Seiche
(Paula DeTemple), running in her first tournament, earned
her Flyball Dog (FD) title, and Disney (Mari Pavleje) earned
her 5,000th point for her Flyball Master (FM) title. Congratulations
to them both!
Besides Seiche and Disney, the members of
the team were Rosie (Kira Haslam), Betzi (Evan Emmons), Deuce
(Marnie Hammerlee), and Ted (Karen Michalski). As usual, we
couldn't have raced without our helpers, Sam Emmons who was
our boxloader and Gail Wegner who recorded our race times
for us. Thanks a lot to both of them.
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