Three-peat!!!  Lakeshore did it again.  Two years ago Lakeshore beat River Trails 9.5-8.5.  Last year they beat Midtown-Chicago 11-7.  This year Midtown-Chicago edged a little closer in points, 8 to Lakeshore’s 10, but Lakeshore held them off to secure their rights to the trophy once again.  Out of curiosity, I looked at their regular season match played on 2/6/15.  The score at that match was 9-9.  Upon closer examination, not only were they tied in points but they were also tied in games.  So if this had been the mini-playoff match they would have had to share the trophy!  But I digress.  Lakeshore won 10-8 and this is how they did it.  On court 1, LSSF’s Sara Aldinger and Nancy Gaspadarek lost the 1^st set but won sets 2 & 3 against MTC’s Cheryl Imo and Kirste Gaudet.  On court 2 LSSF’s Gwen Pontikes and Beth Hermann won 2.5 points against MTC’s Laurie Gilman and Autumn Barrett.  On court 3 MTC’s Sophia Naiditch and LorRonda Miller lost the 1^st set to MTC’s Tina Chang and Hilary Bruce in a tie-breaker but took sets 2 & 3.  On court 4 LSSF’s Emily Emmerman and Anne Edwards won the 1^st set easily, lost some momentum and squeezed on a 2^nd set tie-breaker win against MTC’s Kathy Rain and Rebecca Bacote who won the 3^rd set 5-3.  On court 5, LSSF’s Tina Leopardo and Deirdre Jameson had a close match against MTC’s Claire Perry and Colette Kelsey but LSSF’s team won 2.5pts in that match.  On court 6 the only court to sweep all 3 points, MTC’s Sarah Rothman and Corinne Pinsof-Kaplan defeated LSSF’s Marta Bonner and Judy Paisner.  Nice playing everyone!