By Kevin Parrish

STOCKTON - It was 105, and romance was in the air. Brittany Jasmann of Stockton and Michael Blohm of Ripon, both in their 20s, were on their second date. She talked him into going to Sunday's premiere Festa Italiana at the Waterloo Gun and Bocce Club. They barely got inside the gate when two makeshift bocce courts lured them into a free lesson - and one-on-one game. She had experience. He didn't.

The yellow pallino, a small ball that soon became the target, was tossed. And the competition was under way. The idea, rolling larger bocce balls on the uneven grass surface, was to see who could get closest to the pallino.

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