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30th anniversary season, 2008
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News and Achievements, 2008 (Last Update 09/07/2008)
Welcome to our 30th anniversary season! I hope individually and collectively it turns out to be happy and successful for everyone! Details of proposed anniversary celebrations will be posted a bit later on.
The Club Calendar has a new look this year, all comments welcome!
David, playing with Andy and Chris Barron (Farmhouse) was runner-up to a Crondall team in our own Open on 29 June. Hilary, Gianni and Bernie were runners-up in the Plate, while Wendy, playing with Danny and Jackie Corp (Limes) won the Plate Consolage. [Posted 9 July]
Graham and David, playing with Helen Manley from Worthing, were SCPC's only qualifiers for the Regional Masters to be played later in the season. They finished 11th with 6 wins over the two Qualifiers. Bernie, playing with Liz Farrow (Crondall) and Trish Neville (Shedfield) got 4 wins, while Wayne, Peter and Rob, playing with Loren Butt (Shedfield) got 3. [Posted 9 July]
Peter and Graham were runners-up in the Lamb Spring Open Doubles held at Burridge on 15 June. Hilary and Gianni lost in the semi-final, also to the eventual winners from Crondall. Sam got the Best Junior award for her performance in winning the Main Consolage with Wayne. Wendy, playing with Jackie Corp (Limes) won the wooden spoon. [Posted 9 July]
Graham and David were part of the SCPA winning Espoirs team against IoW at Sandown on 8 June, with Graham and Ben Corp (Limesdowne) winning all four of their games. Sam and Kaylee were part of the SCPA Junior team that lost narrowly 7-9. [Posted 9 July]
Graham and Sam were runners-up in the SCPA Adult/Junior competition held at Burridge on 5 May. [Posted 9 July]
Bernie is obviously going for a clean sweep of club competitions this year, as he won this year's Bernay Cup held at the club on Monday 5 May. He narrowly defeated Bill, with Hilary and Jean close behind. [Posted 7 May]
At the EPA Junior Triples and Lordswood (Kent) on 26 April, Sam and Kaylee with Callum Lombard and Matt Silvester came 4th out of 9 but then bizarrely had to play-off (first to 9 points!) against the 5th team for a place in the semi-finals on the basis that they had had a bye! Sadly, they lost the play-off. [Posted 7 May]
In the EPA Ladies World Championship Qualifiers at Lordswood on 13 and 27 April, Hilary, with Kath Knight, Liz Farrow and Trish Neville came 8th overall and made it to the final playoff. [Posted 7 May]
Continuing the theme of the season so far, Kaylee and Bernie won the Ron Luxton trophy, played on Sunday 13 April 2008. [Posted 13 April]
Sam and Kaylee were in action again in the EPA Junior Doubles Championship at Lordswood, Kent on Saturday 5 April. Sam, playing with Matt Silvester (Hampshire Rose), were initially ranked 2nd, with 3 wins from 4 games, while Kaylee, and Martin Brooks (Worthing), were ranked 7th being awarded 2 wins, but actually having won three but submitted their score in one of them incorrectly! After losing in their semi-final of the top 4 playoff, Same and Matt were eventually placed 3rd. Another great playing day! [Posted 11 April, updated 13 April]
Mixed fortunes for the two 6-a-side teams in their first matches, with Saints winning a good first home match against Royal Oak, postponed to 8 April, 3-2, but Pilgrims succumbing by the same score away to Portchester on 3 April. [Posted 10 April]
Kaylee and Wayne won the Plate Consolage at the Worthing Open Doubles at Burridge on 30 March. [ Posted 7 May]
The first playing successes of the season have been achieved, as usual, by our juniors, but this season that means Sam and Kaylee! Their natural talent and hard work, and the support of Wayne and Wendy, and Peter and others, has led to Sam beating Graham's record for youthful qualification for the Southern Counties Inter-Regional Junior squad by some years! Kaylee, even younger, has made it to the EPA Combination squad for Brean, on the assumption that SCPA will be providing a team. Brilliant performance by both girls!
