Selection Eights Won by Ben Rothman and Jim Bast

28-31 October 2010
National Croquet Center, West Palm Beach, FL
story by Leo Nikora
scores by Danny Huneycutt

The USCA Selection Eights invited the top thirty-two available Association (International) Croquet players in the United States Croquet Association to compete in four groups of eight. This year, the fourth eight had ten players.

Eight	Winner(s)
First	Ben Rothman Jim Bast
Second	Damon Bidencope
Third	Michael Carmichael
Fourth	Mike Gibbons

The tournament director was Danny Huneycutt. The tournament referee was Jeff Soo.

The format was a double Round Robin. Each game in the First and Second Eights went to the peg (no time limit); each game in the Third Eight was to the peg on the first day, two hours and forty five minutes long on the second day, and two and a half hours on the third and fourth days; and each game in the Fourth Eight was two and a half hours long. There were no tie-breakers; a group could end in a tie.

First Eight	B.R.	D.H.	D.G.	R.L.	C.P.	J.B.	J.S.	B.C.
Roth- man	1st (9)	26tp-15	26-9 26tp-3	26tp-0	26tp-0	26tp-9	26-16 26-18	26tp-1
Hun- ey- cutt	26tp-8	3rd (8)		26tp-2 26tp-0	26-9	26tp-1	26-22	26tp-0 26tp-9
Grim- sley		26tpo-21 26-24	6th (6)	26-21	26-24		26-17	26tp-9
Lamm	26-19		26-1	8th (3)	26tp-9
Pat- more	26-16	26otp-18	26otp-12	26-16	3rd (8)	26-14	26tp-7 26tp-11	26-20
Bast	26tp-9	26tp-19	26tp-0 26-0	26-18 26-5	26tp-0	1st (9)	26-9	26tp-0
Soo		26-4	26-13	26-18 26tp-17		26-24	7th (5)
Cum- ming	26tpo-19		26-17	26tp-1 26tp-1	26tp-0	26tp-9	26tp-9 26tp-11	3rd (8)

Second Eight	D.B.	J.O.	S.L.	B.K.	P.B.	C.G.	J.M.	P.E.
Biden- cope	1st (13)	26tpo-16 26-15	26-12 26-12	26-19 26-1	26-4 26tp-2	26-3	26-3 26tp-21	26tp-5 26-12
Osborn		4th (6)	26-13	26tp-0		26-23	26-16	26-23 26-20
Law- rence		26-11	4th (6)	26-16	26-22 26-15		26-24 26-4
Kroe- ger		26-20	26-8	3rd (8)	26-11 26-23	26-22	26-13 26-9	26-10
Billings		26-20 26tp-12			6th (5)		26tp-0	26-9 26-19
Gill- marten	26tp-1	26-0	26tp-21 26-3	26-14	26-17 26-8	2nd (11)	26-18 26-1	26-18 26-4
Mitchell		26-23			26-5		7th (4)	26-16 26-23
Em- mett			26-3 26-11	26-10				8th (3)

Third Eight	A.W.	L.N.	G.C.	R.B.	M.S.	S.S.	T.R.	M.C.
Wad- ley	2nd (9)	26-2 26-2		26-18	26-12 17-15	26-15 18-17		26-6 26-11
Nikora		5th (6)	26-3 16-16	10-8		26-6	26-7 18-17
Coch- ran	26-6 23-18		4th (8)	26-9 26-22		17-16	26-8 26-9	23-22
Brown	26-4	26-9		7th (4)		23-19	26-15
Sel- man		26-10 26-16	26-22 26-7	26-19 20-17	2nd (9)	26-19 26-24	26-8
Scal- pone		26-3	23-11	21-12		7th (4)	26-23
Rapu- ano	26-9 26-22			17-9	26-0	14-10	6th (5)
Car- mich- ael		26-24 22-11	24-23	21-13 26-9	26-18 18-12	26-0 26-11	26-4 18-3	1st (11)

Fourth Eight	S.S.	E.S.	T.R.	J.E.	M.T.	M.G.	J.B.	D.D.	T.Y.	R.H.
Sum- mer	3rd (8)	26-1			26-9 21-16	22-8	26-13	26-2		26-10 26-8
Soo		5th (6)	26-19 26-8				26-9	26-4 26-3	24-5
Reav- es	26-21		9th (4)					20-19	26-24 26-12
Essick	26-2 26-0	21-18	26-16	2nd (9)	26-12		19-17	26-3		23-19 18-15
Taylor		15-4	26-2	23-17	3rd (8)	22-19	26-2	26-2	26-0	26-13
Gib- bons	22-15	26-9	26-5	23-14 18-12	20-17	1st (11)	23-21	19-8	26-3	26-12 19-15
Behar- riell		20-14	26-12 26-9				5th (6)	26-7 22-9	26-0
Dixon			21-6					10th (1)
Yates	16-15	20-6		17-16			25-13	17-14 26-4	5th (6)
Hurst		12-1	26-19		26-20		18-17	18-10	26-6	5th (6)

NA Rk.	Player (ST)
#1	Ben Rothman (CA)
#2	Danny Huneycutt (NC)
#3	Doug Grimsley (VA)
#4	Rich Lamm (CO)
#5	Chris Patmore (NY)
#6	Jim Bast (TX)
#8	Jeff Soo (NC)
#11	Brian Cumming (ON)
=3	Damon Bidencope (NC)
=12	John Osborn (FL)
#13	Stuart Lawrence (NY)
=15	Bob Kroeger (MA)
#16	Paul Billings (CO)
#17	Charles Gillmarten (VA)
#22	Johnny Mitchell (TX)
#25	Paul Emmett (ON)
=16	Adrian Wadley (CA)
#26	Leo Nikora (CA)
=27	George Cochran (LA)
=29	Russell Brown (NY)
#31	Martyn Selman (CA)
#34	Steve Scalpone (OR)
#36	Tim Rapuano (NJ)
=37	Michael Carmichael (FL)
#35	Steve Summer (NC)
#38	Eileen Soo (NC)
#40	Tony Reaves (NC)
#42	Jon Essick (NC)
=43	Mike Taylor (NC)
=44	Mike Gibbons (NY)
#51	Jane Beharriell (ON)
#52	Donna Dixon (TX)
#60	Tom Yates (NC)
	Robert Hurst (SC)