30 Members took part in the 2024 Club Triples including 6 players from our Junior section – including Elijah Jeffries & Evelyn Underwood-Lee who were playing in their first club competition. The weather started dull but then sunshine, the first for several days, broke through with a brief shower between rounds 2 & 3.
The format was the usual 3 round melee with teams selected generally at random except the Juniors were paired with a buddy before the draw commenced. Games were timed at 45 minutes + 1 end.
After Round 1 the leaders were Mike Jones / Peter Kensett / Keith Miller (+7) followed by Tony Smith / Evelyn Underwood-Lee (J) / Alex Skibinski (+5).
So on to Round 2 – could Mike and his team hang on to the lead. When the scores came in Tony’s team (+18) had overhauled Mike’s team (+11) and these were the only teams on 2 wins.
Round 3 was played out and it ended with only one team on 3 wins and 4 teams on 2 wins. Tony Smith / Evelyn Underwood-Lee (J) / Alex Skibinski (3 wins +21) had taken the title with Evelyn taking the Best Junior award. In 2nd place were Robin Ralph / Linda Thomas / Peter Lippett (2 wins +14) and in joint 3rd were Ash Seath / Teilo Munier / Len Christian and Gareth Bartlett / Maddie Bartlett / Len Christian (2 wins +3).
The success of our Junior section programme can be seen in that there were 3 of the top 4 teams that included a Junior with one of the teams being the overall winners.
FINAL SCORES
(Juniors highlighted in Yellow)
PRESENTATIONS
President Mike Jones presents the Best Junior award to Evelyn Underwood-Lee
President Mike Jones (2nd from R) presents the overall winner trophy to (from L) Alex Skibinski, Evelyn Underwood-Lee and Tony Smith.
