Pete Young elevated to the lofty height of #1 seed struggled against the hard hitting and accurate Colin McCartney who with a house move pending and angry wife at home was in hurry to finish matters off. Pete gained the upperhand initially but Colin found his length to see him off in 3.
Meanwhile at #5 late stand in Bill had a nightmare start against Gillian Graham going 2 games down. He then managed to slow things down and get good length to put the David Lloyd #4 at the back of the court. A good tight third game went to Bill and then he eased home in 5.
Will Henderson came on at #2 feeling pretty ill and despite some excellent lobs and dropshots, lost the first game convincingly to Bob Clark. Will then changed tactics, playing harder and longer and triumphed in 4.
On the other court, Rocco played a marathon game against David Lloyd ladies player Elaine Inglis. A very see saw game resulted in the first four games shared before Rocco took hold of the fifth. He looked to winning this easily before Elaine got a second wind to take the game to 10. Rocco dug in and triumphed in the fisth 10-8.
Finally, new boy Richard played an excellent game against David Lloyd captain Andy Gabe. They played some amazing rallies and having such similar styles meant for a closely fought game with Richard winning in 4.
Overall, an excellent night for a scratch 4th team winning 17-11. Great resolve and effort particularly as we were 5-0 down before sniffing our first game. (Report P. Young)
Result 17-11 to Grange
Result 17-11 to Grange
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Time to organise a fifth team for Christy to take part. (Smily winky thing.)
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