The residents of the Wycliffe Golf & Country Club are busy playing golf, tennis and bocce ball. Now you can add pickleball to that list of athletic activities. Not only are Wycliffe residents playing pickleball, but they are winning at pickleball.
On Saturday, Dec. 10, two competitive pickleball squads from Wycliffe hosted the finals of Division 4 and Division 7 of the Palm Beach County Pickleball League. Both squads won their respective matches.
Wycliffe Country Club 1 defeated Four Seasons, 17-6, in the Division 4 finals. The Wycliffe Country Club 2 team defeated Coral Lake in the Division 7 finals, also by a final score of 17-6.
The championship wins by the two squads from Wycliffe marked the conclusion of undefeated seasons by both teams. It was the first time that Wycliffe had won a division title within the Palm Beach County Pickleball League.
Those championship matches marked the conclusion of the fall schedule for the league, which started back in mid-October. The league is for participants aged 55 and over.
According to Wycliffe pickleball participant Leslie Gross, all the participants and the fans in attendance enjoyed the highly competitive matches.
“It was a wild day on the pickleball courts at Wycliffe. It was such a great day. One of the best matches of the day featured one of our doubles teams, Brett Maybrown and Alan Horowitz,” Gross said. “In one of their sets, they trailed 9-1 and rallied to win 12-10.”
Not only did Wycliffe have the championship team in Division 4 and Division 7, it also had the league MVPs for both divisions. They were Barry Dorf (Division 4) and John D’Alberti (Division 7).
The next season for the Palm Beach County Pickleball League is expected to begin play in mid-January.
