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June 5th's SLIRB event will be held on the storied Juniper Swamp course. Meet at Groove’s house and/or the Doughnut Cart at 8:30 Sunday morning. If you’ll be drinking coffee, let Groove (jgoldstone at bma-architects dot com) know.

By assigning the task of writing the occasional SLIRB report to the second place finisher each week, the responsibility is often neglected or, worse, treated with the glib sarcasm which comes naturally to a competitor bested at his sport. This week, is no different. The pain of coming in second to our current “best of field”, ...

Five SLIRBERS ventured up to the paved, but as yet unfinished, section of the new bypass highway around Bennington on an unseasonably hot spring day and unleashed their bowls on the wide, smooth, and sloping pavement. Bowl direction was northwest to southeast, beginning just past the suicide bridge over Furnace Brook and finishing at the ...

In a late winter training score, Scott "Rooster" Printz, so often snubbed in victory, pulled out a one bowl, but nevertheless decisive triumph over Jeff "Groove" Goldstone, Jim "Buzzer" Sullivan, Jeff "Paintrain" Mast and Jason "FA" Dolmetsch respectively. The Niles Road course was new to the crew but was well suited if only for its nearly ...

The second bowl of the weekend found five SLIRBers out on Pleasant Valley surrounded by beautiful scenery, freshly planted Christmas trees, and poison ivy (oops). With three Johnas brothers present and PainTrain taking another day off to recuperate from his near championship run at the North American finals, it was obvious that one of the ...