Inter League, March 07

 

 

Winner

Runner Up

Minor Girls

Dumfries 1

Dumfries 2

Minor Boys

West of Scotland 1

Stirling & Midland 1

Cadet Girls

Edinburgh & Lothians

Dumfries

Cadet Boys

Dumfries

Edinburgh & Lothians

Junior Girls

West of Scotland

Stirling & Midland

Junior Boys

West of Scotland 1

Stirling & Midland 1

Vets

Stirling & Midland 1

West of Scotland 1

Senior Ladies

Dundee 1

West of Scotland

Senior Men

Edinburgh & Lothians 1

Edinburgh & Lothians 2

 

The entry saw 54 competing teams and over 150 competitors representing seven associations which was an increase on last years total.

 

The events themselves produced some tremendous tussles. The Minor Boys event produced one of the best matches of the weekend. The title went down to the deciding rubber between West of Scotland 1 and Stirling and Midland 1 after a Scott Barton double and victories from Blair Fowler and Christopher Wheeler saw the match tied at two apiece. Adam Gaffney held his nerve in the decider beating Alexander Wheeler to take the title West.

 

In the Minor Girls event the Dumfries 1 pairing of Holly Porteous and Alice Williams overcame an early round robin defeat to take the title on countback from Dumfries 2 and Stirling and Midland.

 

In the Cadet events the powerful Dumfries squad of Calum Main, Liam O'Shaughnessy and Neil McDonald swept aside the opposition with Edinburgh finishing runners up.

 

There was better luck for Auld Reekie in the Cadet Girls category when Lesley Atkins and birthday girl Madeline Miller saw off Dumfries to take the title.

 

The Junior Boys event had an unfortunate end when Calum Morgan injured his knee in the deciding match against The West and had to pull out of the deciding rubber with the match tied at two apiece. This resulted in a three way sets countback which saw The West 1 and Stirling and Midland 1 finishing first and second and Dumfries 1 going home empty handed. This was perhaps the surprise result of the day considering the West were weakened with the late withdrawals of both Richard Main and Daniel Swaitek but Nathan Courtney and Basil Razouk who teamed up with Sean Docherty proved solid replacements.

 

In the Junior Girls Event the strong West squad of Corinna Whitaker, Natasha Milliken and Stephanie McCallum took the title without too much fuss with Stirling and Midland finishing best of the rest.

 

The Mens event or the Marathon Mens event as it could have been renamed produced some epic tussles. At the end of the long day it came down to East meets West in the final game and it was the Edinburgh Trio of James Russell,Willie Mabon and Luc Leboutieller who saw off The West 1 who were unfortunate to lose Craig Hardie through injury earlier in the day and had play with two players. Edinburgh though were deserved winners of the event and had earlier played in one of the ties of the day just edging out their strong second team (David Atkins,Stewart Armitage and Glynn Edgar)

 

The Ladies event saw the experienced Elaine Forbes and Julie Lawrence retain the title for Dundee beating the West into second place. Finally the highly competitive Vets event was retained by the Stirling and Midland 1 trio of Gerry Campbell, Stuart Fowler and Mando Notarangelo beating The West 1 into second place.