Bocce ball league

A week ago last Friday, we started in our Winter/Spring Bocce ball league.

I posted about us taking lessons back in November, but we were not able to join a fall league as we didn't get signed up early enough. For the winter/spring league, we found a team on Friday afternoons that had two open positions so we could be on the same team. It turns out that the other couple on the team are friends of one of our neighbors (and, in fact, our neighbors used to be on the team with them, but our neighbors needed to cut back this year). Though we took lessons, we are still learning, and the other folks are very helpful.

One fellow from the other team and I were examining the locations of our balls and those of the other team to determine the score for that "end" (or round? I'm not sure what it is called).

This picture was from just last Friday -- multiple balls very close to the pallina.

As it turns out, we have won our first two matches -- not due to any skill on our part. At least for me, I will try to throw the ball to hit a particular point on the side board, miss it entirely, but sometimes the ball still gets close to the pallina. Other times, someone on the other team will end up accidentally knocking their own ball out of contention, or knocking one of our balls closer. So far, I'm not seeing that it is a game of skill, but who knows?!?!?!?