SEATTLE, WA - Another year, another failed attempt by Oregon’s Ironman Croquet League (IMC) to cross the state line with a Lakewood Croquet Club (LCC) title in tow. The IMC made it’s most aggressive push to date this year, sending a six-player contingent north in hopes of returning with the Poison championship belt. The group [...]
Sunday, August 17, 2008
SEATTLE, WA – Mr. Brian S. Johnston III continued to build momentum heading into the 2008 season finale, Champions Cup XIII, notching his third win of the year at Poison V, Saturday, August 16th at Mount Baker Park in Seattle. The victory was not an easy one, as he had to battle his way past [...]
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
SEATTLE, WA – The Lakewood Croquet Club will host its fifth annual Poison championship on Saturday, August 16th at Mount Baker Park in Seattle. The event, the final LCC Major prior to the end-of-the-season Champions Cup, marks the club’s second foray into the Mount Baker neighborhood (June’s Gary Coleman Memorial Team Challenge was also held in [...]
Saturday, July 5, 2008
MARYSVILLE, WA - The Lakewood Croquet Club’s (LCC) annual single elimination, match-play tournament (where competitors battle in one-on-one matches in a nine-player “bracket”), saw the crowning of its third different winner in three years, as current LCC Singles and Doubles Champion “Mr. Fantastic” Kevin Sutton added to his trophy case, eliminating Nikki Gepner in the [...]
Saturday, June 7, 2008
"Mr. Fantastic" and Brian S. Johnston III staged a stirring come-from-behind win to capture the annual doubles championship June 7th at Coleman Park in Seattle.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SEATTLE, WA - As the saying goes, "when you assume, you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'." Or in this case, The Franchise makes an ass out of himself.
Saturday, June 7, 2008
SEATTLE, WA – What appeared early on to be a come-from-behind, upset victory, turned out to be a come-from-behind, upset victory. It was just the wrong Johnston ending up on the winning side of the equation. Doubles partners for the 2008 Gary Coleman Memorial Team Challenge were selected randomly (via a ball draw), and the pairing [...]
Thursday, May 29, 2008
MERCER ISLAND, WA - After enduring a bit of a free fall of sorts, beginning with his pre-Cup food poisoning in 2005, Mr. Brian S. Johnston III got his 2008 campaign off on the right foot with a solid win at the Triple Steak Trifecta of Death at Luther Burbank Park in Mercer Island over [...]
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
MERCER ISLAND, WA – Despite a long history of blatant and unabashed self-promotion, the Lakewood Croquet Club quietly rolls out the first major of the season this Saturday, May 26th as the Tenth Annual Gary Coleman Memorial Team Challenge takes place at Luther Burbank Park on Mercer Island. Burbank, nestled on the shores of Lake [...]
Saturday, August 5, 2006
SEATTLE, WA – In an unexpected, shocking turn of events, LakewoodCroquet.com has obtained a copy of an email secretly sent by the Lakewood Croquet Club’s (LCC) resident curmudgeon Brian S. Johnston III to Ironman Croquet (IMC) head Brandon Lasher, offering to “be your goon” and “[knock] other competitor’s [sic] balls out of contention so that [...]
Sunday, August 17, 2008
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