I'd say the Blue Angel tournament was a success. There were 79 participants - 26 novice players making up the largest field. The course and the weather was great. Mike Sidebottom does a great job keeping the course up. Thanks. The points will be updated today. Here are the results...

OPEN MEN
1 Buddy Pacate 45 46 -17
2 Darryl Daughtery 47 45 -16
3 Tony Bass 49 46 -13
3 Jimmy Cutler 47 48 -13
3 Ricky Martin 44 51 -13
6 Steve Heaps 49 47 -12
7 Shorty Hammack 51 46 -11
7 John Kittrell 47 50 -11
9 Mike Kernan 48 51 -9
10 Jeff Orum 50 50 -8
11 Will Timmons 51 50 -7
11 Jon Fox 50 51 -7
13 Steve Money 51 51 -6
13 Rivers Sherod 47 55 -6
15 Jeff St. Romaine 52 52 -4
16 Rob George 55 55 2

OPEN WOMEN
1 Pat Searle 58 58 8

GRAND MASTER
1 Rock Searle 50 48 -10
2 Wally Free 52 49 -7
3 Joe Sherrod 47 55 -6
4 Mikael Preston 50 53 -5
5 Tommy Telhiard 52 52 -4
6 Tom Sidebottom 53 54 -1
7 Mike Sidebottom 58 50 E

ADVANCED
1 Matt Orum 50 47 -11
2 Scott Harper 52 46 -10
3 Daniel Sears 52 47 -9
4 K.C. Heckathorn 51 51 -6
5 Robert Crow 51 53 -4
5 Mike Urbaniak 54 50 -4
7 Derrick Bilbo 55 56 3
7 Terry Zeringue 55 56 3
7 Jeffery Free 57 54 3

AM MEN
1 Matthew Harvey 52 50 -6
2 Grayson Goodwill 52 51 -5
3 Calvin Vo 54 52 -2
4 Shane Toole 51 56 -1
5 Jim Houtman 58 57 7
6 Peter Aukamp 60 57 9
7 Bob Toole 56 63 11
8 Gary Sears 57 66 15
9 Leonard Mahood 60 DNF

AM WOMEN
1 Deborah Blankenship 66 68 26
2 Sarah Free 69 67 28
3 Lavern Taylor 70 67 29

AM MASTERS
1 Thomas Bernardo 52 52 -4
2 Rob O'Dell 51 54 -3
3 Steve O'Dell 52 56 E
4 Patrick Cassady 60 55 7
5 Mike Taylor 56 61 9
5 Scott Snyder 58 59 9

JUNIORS
1 Nathan Jones 69 69 30
2 Gage Harper 97 103 92

NOVICE
1 Joe linn 55 57 4
1 Michael Vanopynen 58 54 4
3 James Ireland 58 56 6
4 Johhny Ramsey 58 57 7
5 Jared Sirna 58 58 8
6 Glen Oloughlin 61 57 10
6 Mark Keefe 61 57 10
8 Craig Hoelzer 57 62 11
8 Matt Clark 62 57 11
10 Philip Carter 60 62 14
10 Carl Corrao 61 61 14
10 Dan Mooney 64 58 14
13 Patrick Fousse 64 61 17
14 Scott McGuire 62 64 18
14 Dave Adkins 65 61 18
16 Shea Hammond 64 63 19
17 Richard Thompson 64 65 21
17 Sam Stoneback 65 64 21
17 Jim Oloughlin 65 64 21
20 Thom Seith 67 64 23
21 Carleton Thebeau 65 69 26
22 Jesse Creech 68 67 27
23 Bob McGuire 69 68 29
24 Scott Ewen 74 75 41
25 Mike Dwyer 64 DNF
26 John Russo 65 DNF

Wow 26 Novice...nice. That's a ton.

Brad

I just wanted to say thanks to Mr. Jim for a great tournament, also to Mike Sidebottom for sponsoring us in and getting us a trailer to stay in. They were super nice and really clean with all the luxuries of being at home. I think I speak for all the H.C.S.V. that was able to come, when I say we had a really great time. It was a really good turnout, with great weather the entire weekend. I would also like to say that Blue Angel is one of nicest courses I have ever played. Although very short, it really challenges your finesse game, and had some of the prettiest landscape I have ever seen on any course. It has all the extras that I could only wish Paul B. Johnson had; benches, bag holders, tee pads, nice signs, and water stations every four or five holes. It looks like the locals there have really put a lot of time and effort into making it a great course. Kudos to Pensacola for that. Also I would like to add that the doubles on Sunday was a blast. Thanks to Mr. Jim for sticking around an extra day to organize that. Sarah, I really enjoyed playing with you, as well as Deborah and Scott. It was a fun round to say the least. Thank you Pensacola for a great weekend.
Hope to see all of you at Paul B. Johnson next month for the Ice Bowl. It is going to be a great one, so don't miss out. C-ya'll soon.
Tony

Matt Orum - what a scam - way to keep it in the family, Jim.

Seriously, this kid got game. I have now seen him play twice and park the most difficult hole on each of the two courses we played. And one of those was the 450' hole 16 at Gautier. Never seen that done until some darn 15-yr.-old kid did it. And the best thing is, besides that goofy grin, he doesn't have the bad personality traits that someone so obviously talented could have.

Matt, I look forward to playing with you again in the near future - in the first round of a tournament, when your skinny butt is playing pro and I am still stuck in Advanced.

Just remember, you might drive better than me, but you can't drive yourself to the park :p

well crow you almost got it right matt was only 14 when he park the gautier hole.pensacola has shown us the way on the extras , i will take that as a challenge to see if mobile can step it up a little.i would like to say thanks to mike p and and john for helping out ,what they ran the tournament . to the players that played you were the best, zero problems and to the players that help all the novice during the first round .i had at least 10 novice come up and said how great it was to play with the pro ,g-m am masters, and advance players. they said they now know how to play and act during a tournament. many novice said they learned alot on how to play the game of disc golf . we should all remember that word game ,sounds funs. three aces the first round one by champion buddy #15 rivers #15 and tony bass #1, way to go on the aces, i thought they would be at least 6 aces , well i was wrong. mike and glen the course was in great shape as always see yall in april .well go out and ace one for me ,jim

oh goodness, i got beat by a grandmaster, two advanced players, and John Kittrell! can retirement be far off?

Yeah Saturday was a good day underparmike got beat by moreunderparjohn. I finished one stroke out of cash - bogied my last hole, but it was almost worth it to squeak by Mikey both rounds by one stroke. Poor Blessed Lettuce, I'm sure the crying lasted all the way to NO. You may get your chance at revenge tomorrow.

So John, does this mean you will be at Rivendell on Saturday. What about all the other hundred pros from the Mobile area. That place has really put out some telent over the past few years. I sure hope ya'll drag Buddy P. over there, because I want a chance at REVENGE!!!!

Well I've been talkin' trash for nothing, because it looks like my ride is bailing on me. Wish I could make it, I know it would be a good time!! I will be there for Mardis Gras though! Later
TB