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Pickleball tournament set for Sweet Corn Festival · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Pickleball tournament set for sweet Corn Festival. Written by Matthias Warner.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlett. OSF Saint Paul Medical Center is
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  Speaker 1: a major sponsor of the seventy ninth annual Mendoda sweet
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  Speaker 1: Corn Festival. According to a news release from the Mendoda
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  Speaker 1: Area Chamber of Commerce, OSF Saint Paul Medical Center and
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  Speaker 1: its employees are inviting residents to join the third annual
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  Speaker 1: sweet Corn Festival pickleball tournament. The tournament is in partnership
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  Speaker 1: with the Mendoda Area YMCA and is being held at
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  Speaker 1: Mendoda Lake Sports Complex on the north side of Lake.
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  Speaker 1: The tournament will be open division for all ages and
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  Speaker 1: co ed teams, according to the release, with registration fees
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  Speaker 1: at twenty five dollars per player. Each player must register separately.
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  Speaker 1: Tournament check in will begin at eight am on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: August ninth, with the first round of matches beginning at
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  Speaker 1: nine am. The tournament is a double elimination tournament. Each
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  Speaker 1: match is best of three games, with rally point scoring
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  Speaker 1: going up to fifteen. The winning team must win by
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  Speaker 1: two points. Awards will be given for teams finishing first
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  Speaker 1: through third. These awards will be sponsored by b Square
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  Speaker 1: Home Renovations. According to the release, registration will be done
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  Speaker 1: through the Mendoda YMCA at eighteen eleven s Thirteenth Avenue
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  Speaker 1: or via email at Mendota at a vimka dot org.
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  Speaker 1: Participants can also pick up registration forms at the Mendoda
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  Speaker 1: Area Chamber of Commerce. Forums in payment are due by Monday,
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  Speaker 1: July twenty eighth. Online registration is also available through the
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  Speaker 1: Mendoda Chamber of Commerce and Mendoda YMCA Mendoda YMCA Activities
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  Speaker 1: Facebook pages.