Brewers Defeat United in Closely Contested Match Brewers Mixed Doubles Narrowly Beat United The Eastern Split has seen all kinds of great pickleball. This one between United’s Matt Kawamoto and Hannah Blatt and the Brewers Mark Cleminson and Christina Chin was great overall. Chin and Cleminson just had that little extra and didn’t make as […]

East Toronto Smash Roll Over Montreal Lions in Four Smash Mixed Doubles Flatten Lions in First Game In terms of overall effort, the East Toronto Smash mixed doubles team of Dalbir Bhandal and Jordann Vigna didn’t break much of a sweat beating Montreal Lions Eric Gagnon and Kim Layton. The Smash quickly built a healthy […]

Prairie Pronghorns Nip Southwestern Ontario Brewers in Hard-Fought Five-Game Battle Pronghorns Women Get Match Off to Hot Start in Win over Brewers Pam Clarke may be one of the elder statespersons in the CNPL at 51 and she wears a knee brace, but she showed in this match she is a force to be reckoned […]

Montreal Lions Slip Past Northern Rollers in Five Lions Stage Monumental Comeback in Mixed Doubles You could say that the Dura ball was not quite the Northern Rollers’ friend in this mixed doubles opener. The duo of Rob Krizmanich and Jessica Kawamoto held an early 8-5 lead and then proceeded to either hit the Selkirk […]

Rocky Mountain Rush Win Tight Match Against East Toronto Smash Rush Women Outlast Smash in Thriller This first game between the Rush’s Casey Rodgers and Alex Walker and the East Toronto Smash’s Jordann Vigna and Leigh Bradwell set the tone for the entire see-saw match between these two squads. Rodgers and Walker let a four-point […]

West Coast Wolverines Rally to Win Four-Game Match over United United Get Off to Hot Start in Mixed Doubles Haddow Thul and Vicky Strandlund of the West Coast Wolverines are a formidable pair in mixed doubles. That is, until they ran into the train that was Toronto United’s Matt Kawamoto. The 5’5” dynamo, drafted 20th […]

Brewers Prevail in Close Match with Rush Rush Women Stifle Brewers Rally in Tight Game Judging by the first half of this closer-than-you-think game, the Rocky Mount Rush duo of Casey Rodgers and Alex Walker seemed to have had it sewn up, leading 8-3 at side change over the Southwestern Ontario Brewers. But, when one […]

West Coast Wolverines Coast to Four Game Victory over East Toronto Smash Wolverines Outlast Smash in Women’s Doubles You must give the East Toronto Smash women’s team of Leigh Bradwell and Jordann Vigna credit. Even though they eventually lost to the West Coast Wolverines duo Vicky Strandlund and Angie Walker 15-10, they never said die. […]

Toronto United Trip Up Northern Rollers United Women Overcome Rollers in First Game As good as Northern Rollers duo Emma Li and Jessica Kawamoto were together in this match opener, Toronto United’s Martina Wynia and Hannah Blatt were just a little better. Blatt and Wynia were huge when it mattered and ended up winning 15-12. […]

Prairie Pronghorns Storm Back to Beat Lions in Four Lions Whip Pronghorns 15-7 in First Mixed Doubles Tilt There have been many close, electrifying, and lengthy games in the Eastern Split. This wasn’t one of them. Not to say that there wasn’t some good pickleball played, but the Montreal Lions duo of Cam Rich and […]