Plymouth & District Badminton League

A good evening of badminton saw Builders beat Tavistock by 20 aces to win Plymouth Badminton’s Beckly Cup.  The Final played at Torpoint’s Council Chambers saw both teams with some “catching up” to do, as Builders last won the Trophy in 1988 whilst Tavistock can go back to 1977. 

The match was fairly evenly contested with Builders taking an early advantage leaving Tavistock to catch up with the tail.  Of the 18 ends played, Tavistock won 11 of them and Builders the other 7.

The match finished with Tavistock winning by just 4 aces but the handicap gave Builders +24 and the Beckly Cup by 20 aces.

In the Medley Division One the Title is now down to a two horse race between Greenbank A and Ivybridge.   University fell away after losing 8-1 at Greenbank A where Peter Gibbons and Rachel Iveson saved the “brush” beating Luke Green and Christine Marr 21-19 21-18.  Greenbank B then completed the double beating University 5-4 at Devonport High School for Boys and 6-3 at Whiteford Road.

Callington gained their first win of the season at Ivybridge winning 5-4.  The match of the evening saw Julian Cooper and Lynda Beer beat Dan Corby and Liz Marker 13-21 21-17 25-23.

Y.M.C.A. Kitto are setting the pace in Division Two.  They beat Mayflower Wednesday 9-0 to maintain top spot.  In the battle for relegation, Mayflower Wednesday beat B.A.T.S. 6-3.  Only 1 point separates these teams going into their final matches.  In the middle of the table, Derriford beat Tavistock 6-3.

University have made a late challenge in Division Three beating both of the leading contenders on their own courts.  The students came away from Callington with a 6-3 victory and followed this by beating Builders 5-4 at Whiteford Road.  Torpoint put up a fight against the students but went down 9-0,  B.A.T.S. were their next victims but the students took to the “nylon” shuttle and came away 6-3 victors.  In the return match and back to “feathers” the students beat B.A.T.S. 9-0. 
B.A.T.S. then suffered the same fate at Y.M.C.A. Kitto, losing 9-0 in straight sets.  Callington regained some ground to beat Y.M.C.A. Kitto 8-1 and are still favourites for the Title.

Results in the Men’s Division B have handed University the Title.  Victoria could have caught them but dropped 2 points at home to Devonshire B.  Devonshire A also dropped points winning 8-4 at B.A.T.S. 
Devonshire B pulled out all the stops to draw 6-6 at home to B.A.T.S. but have finished bottom of the table.

In the Men’s Division C Torpoint are still struggling for those elusive points.   At Mayflower Wednesday, Torpoint lost 12-0.

Likewise in the Ladies Division Torpoint lost 12-0 at Devonshire, and evidently lost a lot of weight as well.

Gordon Hunt

Published by the Evening Herald and Sunday Independent

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