The badminton team league semifinals were played on Sunday March 6, 2005, at 6pm
in Downers Grove North High School.

Thank you very much to Anthony Calderon for allowing us to use the facility and
for staying with us longer untill we were done. Anthony has donated the $40 we
offered for the overtime stay to Shannon Pohl's fund aimed to help her achieve
her Olympic Dream. (visit http://www.ShannonPohl.com ).

Thank you also to all team captains for organizing their teams. Most of their
best players could come and play and so there was a lot of good badminton to
watch.

The #1 seed McKinley Park won over the #4 seed Chicago Dragons 5:3. The match
was tight at 3:3 before the both same gender doubles matches went McKinley
Park's way.

The #2 Seed Park Ridge lost to the #3 seed Willowbrook 1:7. The match was much
closer than it looks by the final score, especially on the men's side. Should
the team Park Ridge have had Sarah Sammit available, the result might have gone
either way.

The individual matches results are listed below.

The final round of the 2004-05 league is scheduled for Sunday April 24 evening
6pm at the same place - Downers Grove North High School. McKinley will play
Willowbrook for the 1st place and the title of Champions, Park Ridge will face
Chicago for the 3rd place. The $400 prize purse will be split $175/$100/$75/$50
to the four teams. A small trophy will be awarder to the leagues MVP players
(female and male).

After the finals, we plan to have a get together of the players and friends at
an evening and location still to be determined.

If you are interested in forming a team for the next year, please contact Milan
@ SiriusInvestment.com We will try to learn from this first year of existence
and make the next year better a bit (with everybody's help).

Visit http://www.BadmintonLeague.com to for the past results and more
information about the league.



SEMIFINALS RESULTS:

McKinley Park (Seed #1) wins over Chicago Dragons (Seed #4) 5:3.

MD: Gediminas Andrikonis, Scott Shigley vs. Milan Kratka, Anthony Calderon 2:0
WD: Karishma Kollipara, Jurate Sidlauskaite vs. Shannon Pohl, Priscila Ing 2:0
MS #1: Gediminas Andrikonis vs. Milan Kratka 2:0
MS #2: Haris Subacius vs. Anthony Calderon 0:2
WS #1: Jurate Sidlauskaite vs. Shannon Pohl 0:2
WS #2: Karishma Kollipara vs. Irina Slavina 2:0
XD #1: Gediminas Andrikonis, Jurate Sidlauskaite vs. Milan Kratka, Shannon Pohl
1:2
XD #2: Scott Shigley, Karishma Kollipara vs. Anthony Calderon, Priscila Ing 2:0

Match #2: Park Ridge (seed #2) looses to Willowbrook (Seed #3) 1:7

MD: Imran Dharma, Tarwin Winawan vs. Matt Vrobel, Serge Penksik 0:2
WD: Ann Hewkin, Yvonne Hui vs. Gina Fite, Karen Chin 0:2
MS #1: Tarwin Winawan vs. Matt Vrobel 1:2
MS #2: Thomas Chan vs. Rocky Dong 1:2
WS #1: Ann Hewkin vs. Gina Fite 0:2
WS #2: Yvonne Hui vs. Karen Chin 0:2
XD #1: Thomas Chan, Yvonne Hui vs. Serge Penksik, Karen Chin 0:2
XD #2: Imran Dharma, Ann Hewkin vs. Peter Tygrysek, Erin Anderson 2:0

[Thanks to Milan Kratka for the update!]

-- CLBP Moderators