It's a Cochon, NOT a Pallino

Michigan Petanque Central Sports News Agency -
After a couple of weeks of delays, the latest Rochester Best of Nine has concluded. Joe Zajac of Team Z had apparently been evading competition, claiming one evening “to have forgotten that it was Friday night,” appearing instead at the Palazzo di Bocce. On another Friday when it would have been possible to conclude the Ninth Best of Nine, Mr. Zajac went so far as to leave town, for Florida, ostensibly to attend a Petanque conference there. The sports writing staff heard through other sources, though, that Joe was suffering a mental break and just couldn’t take the unrelenting series of defeats any more. In a further sign of this mental break, others heard Mr. Zajac referring to the bouchon as a pallino, a symptom brought on most probably by Zajac’s recent flirtation with bocce, a sport in which the playing field against the unstoppable LaChance is more level.

Well, Team Z did finally face off against Team LaChance last night, starting the night off our readers will remember with a 3 games to 3 games deadlock. Team Z, having learned something apparently at the junket in Florida slapped LaChance with a 13-1 defeat in the first round, putting four matches into the win column for Zajac, and putting him within one game of winning this Ninth Best of Nine. A hush of anticipation fell over the crowd.

In the eighth match, LaChance rallied, returning a 13-2 defeat to Zajac, again tying the number of matches at 4 – 4. The imminent, and unfamiliar taste of victory proved to be too much for Zajac, though, and he succumbed in the ninth match 13-4. And thus concludes the Ninth Best of Nine, with all nine having been decided in favor of LaChance.

The Petanque Central sports writing staff at this point is faced with no choice but to endorse Integrale as the clear boule of choice for serious Petanque players. The evidence in favor of Integrale is overwhelming. LaChance has beaten Team Z in a perfect nine out of nine Best of Nines, and has done this against a Team Z which placed 6th in the US, according to the Petanque Federation of America, during their most recent tournament in Florida. And LaChance has done this with no practice, further proving the superiority of the Integrale boules. Sorry Obut.