Okanagan pickleball tournament held
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Updated: November 04, 2009 2:46 PM
Thirty competitors from Lake Country through Penticton, and also from the Lower Mainland, took part in the South Okanagan Open Pickleball Tournament held at the Penticton Community Centre on Sunday, Oct. 25.
Pickleball is played indoor or outdoor, and it is the most rapidly expanding racquet sport in North America.
Pickleball is played with a hard paddle the size of a racquetball paddle, and a plastic ball similar to a whiffle ball.
The court has the approximate dimensions of a badminton court but with a low net such as in tennis.
Pickleball was introduced to the BC Seniors Games this year and was very successful.
More information regarding this exciting, social sport is available on the website: www.pickleballcanada.org.
The results of the tournament were as follows:
Ladies Doubles A: Dawna denOtter, Summerland; Colleen Power, Summerland.
Ladies Doubles B: Carol Ecklund, St. Andrews; Madeleine St Cyr, Lake Country.
Mens Doubles A: Franz Wagner, Summerland; Doug Power, Summerland.
Mens Doubles: Lloyd Wright, Penticton; Miles Kereliuk, Penticton.
Mixed Doubles A: Colleen Power, Summerland; Doug Power, Summerland.
Mixed Doubles A: Dawna denOtter, Summerland; Kees denOtter, Summerland.
Mixed Doubles B: Miles Kereliuk, Penticton; Carol Ecklund, St. Andrews.
Mixed Doubles B: Janet Cornett-Ching, Summerland; Bill Franzman, Kelowna.
