Thirds @ Inveresk (Thurs, Feb 5,'09)

For the top of the table clash, we turned out with our strongest possible team... but so did Inveresk. Christy at #4 was first on against Harold Nesse and just lost the set first game, down hill from there feeding Harold's reverse angles with cross-courts through the T; 0-3.

Dougie at #1 was up against it in Adam Lord, Adam was cleaning everything for the loss of just 3 points in the first two but Dougie contested the third to set-point but was unlucky not to sneak it; 0-3.

Michael Scott took John Brown to 5 at #2 but also fell to lack of length feeding his man's reverse angles; 2-3. Pete Cockburn at #5 v Willie Wood, Willie played some slide-rule drops and boasts to take a game but Peter had too much movement and closed out convincingly 3-1.

The finale was #3 Patrick v Samantha Fearnley, some terrific hitting from both players, Patrick got absolutely everything back including stuff he had no right to, a good comeback in the first game from him saw Sam having to throw in some errors which made the difference throughout; 3-0.

Overall, 10-15 so not too much damage done, Dunbar at home on Thurs with the crunch match being at Waverley4 on Mon, Feb 23.

Plenty of banter in the bar after, even with 2 Inveresk players having to leave they had the other squad players in support and second servings of chilli in tortilla wraps hit the spot.