3rd March 2014
Our annual match took place at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst and was, as always, a good contest, in spite of a misunderstanding which meant that the teams were four players instead of the normal five!
It started off with Alan Williamson, a new Vets Club member, playing Graham Jolly. Alan, an ex-triathlete, showed his potential with a strong 3 - 0 win.
Chris Sebire then played Andy Craig; this was a humdinger! Andy played superbly to take a 2 - 0 lead and it looked as if it were all over, but Chris found some extra reserves. He came back to 2 - all, by which time Andy had run out of fuel; 3 - 2 to Chris.
Andy Hartley put up a rear-guard action against Steve Johnson. Steve went up 2 - 0 and Andy came back to win the third, but just could not do the fourth.
John Woodliffe, who has been off for a while with knee problems, seemed to overcome those problems with a good 5 game win over Lawrence Lea.
So the match ended in a 3 - 1 win for the Vets Club and we went off to the Royal Standard to replay the games over a beer or two and a meal.
The match scores were:
GB Vets |
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Camberley |
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Alan Williamson |
beat |
Graham Jolly |
3/0 |
9/5, 9/4, 9/1 |
Chris Sebire |
beat |
Andy Craig |
3/2 |
5/9, 8/10, 9/2, 9/6, 9/1 |
Andy Hartley |
lost to |
Steve Johnson |
1/3 |
5/9, 7/9, 10/8, 7/9 |
John Woodliffe |
beat |
Lawrence Lea |
3/2 |
7/9, 9/3, 8/10, 9/4, 9/3 |
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