Wednesday 29 June 2011

RB home v Linlithgow(Tue, Jun 28)

A warm sunny evening, Linlithgow rolled up around 7:45. Ali Ross was first on with John Ralph and set a new PB for rallies scored, 11-15, 3-15, 8-15. Off he went to the kitchen to conjure up some food magic.
Mike Douglas made his team debut against Captain Keith Barrett. It was close, he lost the first but took the second and the also swapped he next two games before Keith got his nose in front in the fifth to take it 15-12. Christy at #2 was in the battle of the paddies as he played Paddy Duff. He snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the second, having been 14-10 up! Got cuffed in the other 2.
Dean at #1 faced John Stephen. The tactic of just dolly-ing the ball back was working early on but then John stopped tinning it and cruised the first two. The third was a royal battle which Dean took to 13-13 but John got the nod from there.
At #4, Brian Sloan played Matt McIlroy and this was another grinding slog with some marathon rallies. They swapped the first two games but Mark got the third convincingly and another royal battle for the fourth which Mark got.
Overall 3-18 which is 3 points more than we got when we played there.
Ali Ross served up stuffed pasta on a bed of salad with lots of sauce and everyone discussed Wimbledon, squash and racketball while munching and pinting away.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did anyone correctly predict the Wimbledon winners?

Loob said...

I think the consensus was that it would not be Andy Muwworry this time.