HomePress Release 20th March 2003
The away side Mayflower Wednesday "B" carved out a narrow 5-4 victory over their University "B" basement rivals.
The match played at the Mayflower Centre, the spiritual home of
Wednesday, was decided in the mixed events. University took all the men's
events, while the Mayflower ladies proved too strong for their University
counterparts, leaving the score evenly balanced at three all.
Carl Pavitt and Karen Searl were victorious over Nick Thorne and Linzi Hodgson
15-8 12-15 15-13. Husband and wife Lesley and Kevin Northcote clinched the match
with a 15-3 15-8 score over Jez Bennett and Liz Pickles. Despite scoring four
more aces than their opponents Andy Crocker and Julia Leaves, in arguably the
event of the evening, couldn't complete the set. They narrowly missed out 11-15
15-6 16-17 to the considerably younger pairing of Franko Woo and Kirsty
Richardson!
Irrespective of the score in this final match of the season, the University
finish in the relegation position with Mayflower Wednesday, depending on other
results, probably one place above.
Andy Crocker