Southside Bocce

07/10/2026

This time last week, under an Extreme Heat Warning, 28 Southsiders battled through the elements for an absolute SCORCHER of a random draw tournament. 🔥🥵🫠

Each team was a mash-up of seasoned veterans, newer Southside players, and a handful of folks well-versed in backyard bocce. The result? New friends and damn good bocce!

The temperatures were brutal, but the four-frame round robin turned the pressure up even higher. After all that, only one team, Southwest (Franny, Matt, Justin, Elena), finished undefeated heading into the bracket.

Standing in their way of a perfect night? Two With, Two Without (Tegan, Mary, Aldo, Morgan), the second-to-last seed.

As lightning and fireworks flashed in the background, the championship match delivered all the excitement you could ask for. Southwest’s rookie Elena rolled a game-saving ball to keep her team alive, but with Tegan still holding one final ball, it wasn’t enough. One raffa. Two points. Game over.

Congratulations to Two With, Two Without for surviving the heat, embracing the chaos, and taking home the W! 🏆🔥

01/21/2026

12/31/2025

What a year for the Southside. We hit a record high of 27 teams at RIPH this summer, launched a brand-new Southside Belt —the Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime (AAA) — and opened our newest home at Eagles. All year long, Southside kept showing up and showing out, representing at tournaments near and far, and giving love to our zebras who make the whole thing possible. It was truly another banner year, and our hearts couldn’t be fuller.

Year after year, we bring the energy and pride wherever we go, and it’s incredibly heartwarming to see this community continue to be recognized on a bigger stage. At Jingle Balls, we had Southsiders spread across five different teams throughout the tournament. The energy was unreal, and the night was capped off with some massive Southside wins to close things out.

Huge congratulations to our guy Flex, named Bocce Official of the Year, and to Franny for her Bocce Ambassador of the Year win!

This community keeps raising the bar and showing what it means to roll together. We’re beyond proud of what we’ve built and where we’re headed.

LONG LIVE THE SOUTHSIDE! 🖤🤍

12/10/2025

Thinking bocce courts just appear out of thin air? Think again!

At Eagles, step one requires our crew to do some heavy lifting before the courts even go down! And yes, that was an entire stage that was moved across the room. 😳💪🏼

11/24/2025

The 1v1 was a huge showing for Southside Bocce!!

Last year we rolled in with 7 players and 3 of them made it to Gold. This year, we doubled our ranks! 12 players strong!! 8 battled it out of their flights to earn a spot in the Gold Bracket on Sunday. Franny made the deepest run into the sweet 16, finally bowing out to former champ and runner-up Mike Masini. We’re so proud of our crew!

But the highlight of the weekend? Cheering on our guy Flex in the Silver Finals. Down 9-1, he never backed down, chipping away at the deficit until he flipped the script and won the whole thing, with Southside absolutely roaring on the sidelines. Congrats Flex!

With a showing like this, we can’t wait to see how much further our community grows in 2026!!

10/30/2024

CONGRATS to our leisurely dinos Boccesaurus Rec on their perfect season!

Boccesaurus Rec are one of only a few OG Southside teams and their chemistry showed as they dominated Court A all night.

Props to our runners up, Mitosis. Bridesmaids once again!

10/23/2024

Another Southside Bocce Tourney success! Congrats to Team 1 on their back-to-back wins against Aldi’s Be-occes Hats with Pants!

Huge thank you to all our friends that came out! Special thanks of course to our friends at RIPH for hosting us and Bizarro & Son for the eats all day!

10/15/2024

Hey Southside! Last call to sign up for our random draw tourney on Saturday!!

https://forms.gle/gmwTcnvAQjJzkV1J6

09/19/2024

09/17/2024

Idk about ya’ll but we felt the Southside presence at this year’s ABC Open! We tripled our Southside ranks from last year, cheered on our bocce heroes in the World Championship Qualifiers 🇺🇸 and our bocce friends on the courts, watched our very own Mama 🐝 win the skills challenge, and even brought the belt along for the field trip!

What a weekend! Let’s bring even more friends next year, Southside!