Sat 11th July, Moira Manager/reporter: Richard
Ashby, Leicester and Nottingham contested this year’s East Midlands 14-point one-day AC competition for teams of three.
The competition was played as three rounds of games, each round comprising four singles games with a time limit of 1hr 45 mins. With an odd number of players overall (3 x 3) this meant one player had to sit out each round. By the end of the day, each club had played a total of eight games.
The final result was as close as ever, with Ashby (Keith, Arthur and Richard) finishing as winners with 5 wins, followed by Leicester on 4 wins and Nottingham on 3 wins.
The last game of the day to finish, between Richard Sanville (Ashby) and Tom Dewar (Nottingham), was really tight and could easily have gone either way but in the end Richard held on to a narrow lead to claim the win. Had Tom won this game, all three teams would have finished on the same number of wins and Leicester would have won the trophy on hoop difference, thanks to an outstanding day’s play by their star player Owen Pugh who easily won all his games well within the time limit, conceding just 4 points overall.
Results (PDF)
