Senior County Team Report 06-12-09

The senior county team took on Cornwall at home last weekend. The Cornwall side were sitting pretty at the top of the league with 4 wins out of 4. The islanders also undefeated but having played less games meant it should be a great match.

The islanders were without one of its top players due to an injury. The manager set out his game plan and the team went on to do battle. Karrin Murrant played her first county singles this year and came up trumps with a win, Ian Walder soon followed with another win. Kez Downer also playing his first county singles this year took his opponent to a close fought 3rd game only to narrowly miss out. This left Jane Jackson to play against their star vet, which went to 3 sets with Jane just losing.

So at 2 all it was on to the levels, in the men’s it was a clean sweep with Richard Gray and Ian winning both games which was matched by Kez and Rudi Hendon-John. In the ladies Jane and Ady White matched the men by taking both of there games. Karrin and Caroline Pearson beat the 2nd pair but just missed out against the 1st Pair. So with a healthy lead of 9 -3 it just left mixed games. Ian and Ady, Richard and Jane, Kez and Karrin.

Amazingly they all finished within 10 seconds of each other with all 3 victories meaning an excellent win of 12 – 3 to the islanders with full points.