Sunbury enjoyed some success in this week’s Middlesex county competitions. Anita beat the woman who Tracy lost to in the previous round and JenB beat Karen to progress to the quarter-finals of the Unbadged Singles. If both win their next games they will face each other in the semis! In the Women’s Triples there was a fine 19-16 win for Tracy, Jenny and JenB against a team from Bishop Duppas and next face a tricky visit to Ashford. Unfortunately, Karen, Nikki & Eileen lost out 21-20 at Cambridge Park.
Looking at our Club Competitions, the last-32 round of matches of the Open Handicap (the largest draw of all the competitions) was completed this week. Many thanks to everyone for getting their games in before the deadline and making life so easy for the Competitions Secretary! The last two matches are early contenders for this season’s longest with Cassie & Colin playing 28 ends and then Anita & Neil usurping this the following day with a staggering 31 ends, matching Dennis v AlanP in last season’s Men’s Handicap final. We’re all set for Saturday’s Presidents Plate with 30 confirmed players. This makes 10 triples with higher handicapped players due to be placed in different teams – the actual draw taking place on the day. It’ll be played as a swiss-system with a random first round then winners v winners and losers v losers. The top two teams will go forward to finals weekend. Please congregate from 10am with the first games starting 10:30am.
We then move into July and team matches resume; first up is an SML game on Sunday 7th with Sunbury hosting Bishop Duppas. Since our last game other teams have been climbing past us in the table .. let’s hope we can do some climbing of our own!