Thursday 18 January 2007

Grange 3's @ Deerpark, Wed (Jan 18, 07)

After taking a maximum haul of points in the opening encounter of the season against DPK 3 the journey to Livingston was filled with optimism. We were perhaps missing one or two from the top of our pecking order, they fielded much the same team in the same order.

John Graham opened at 5 against Bill and all the games were close with John meeting an opponent whose style of play almost mirrored his own. Bill sahded the first 10-8 and sadly also closed out games 2 and 3 to 6 and 7 respectively. (0-3)

Our youth policy (Chris Molyneaux) had to cope with the psychological problem of a female opponent, Helen but quickly realised he would need to banish any churlish or charitable thoughts from his mind as Helen proceeded to clean him out, (0-3)

At 3 Stephen Davey tried his hardest to get us back into the match but Ken saw him off without dropping a game - the heaters at Livi are new and by their own admission were next to useless and global warming has certainly not yet reached the courts at Deer Park. It would be fair to say that home advantage assisted as we all struggled to adapt and find anything like a consistent or effective length. (0-3)

Pete Young played at the dizzy heights of no 2 against John and on another night it all would have been so different but Pete was hitting a man aho had found his touch and despite a brief rally to take the 3rd and secure our first point, John closed out the 4th. (1-3)

Peter T played Brian at No 1 and found the courts to his liking. After securing the first 2 games and racing to a 5-0 lead he took his mind off the business in hand and lost the 3rd before re- focusing to take the 4th (3-1).

We have to be a little disappointed with the scoreline given the turnaround from the first half of the season and unless we get back on track next week against Abercorn, dropped points against 2 of the teams lower down our division will basically kill off any silly aspirations of possible promotion.
Oh well at least we can then just focus properly on the social apect!
(The Tweedster) (Ed.- GRG3 lost DPK 3 1-4, 4-17 on points, man-of-the-match goes to Tweedster for wringing a win out of the cold dead hand of the Deerpark courts)

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