Pryce and Price claim victory in Over-60s Doubles Merit at Eastfield
The Over-60s merit on Friday was a Doubles at Eastfield sponsored by The Farrier, Cayton.
In the first round Whitby’s Emmo Emmerson & Kenny Wale won comfortably against Borough’s Ronnie Noble & Brian Dalby 21-13.
Another Whitby pair, Geoff Coleman & Kenny Rodgers had a good 21-13 win against Hunmanby’s Harry Old & Jack Richardson and David Wright & Mary Kenworthy beat Ralph Myers (Hunmanby) & Mark Richardson (Sheffield) 21-12.
Dave Pryce & Steve Price (Borough) beat Dukes Park duo Mike Scott & Keith David 21-11 to face home pair Ashley Brunton-Douglas & Mike Carter who cruised through 21-9 against Mally Kay (North Cliff) & Ian Winning (Bridl Bay).
Barrie & Caroline Watson (Borough) had a 21-12 win against Tommy Roberts & Joyce Harland (Whitby) to face Billy Holdsworth (Hunmanby) & Nigel Trotter (North Cliff) who beat Tony Bland (Borough) & Larry Dixon (Westgate) 21-8.
This score was repeated when Chris Dobson (Dukes Park) & Tim Purcell (Whitby) eliminated home pair John Burton & John Jarvis to set up a game against Gary Thornton (Borough) & Steve Lonnia (Sheffield) who won 21-10 against Malcolm Dobson & Mickelle Chamberlain (Hunmanby).
The round concluded with Alan Landers & Ian Richardson (North Cliff) beating Geoff Oldham & Phil Todd (Hunmanby) 21-12 and Jim & Lill Barr winning an all-Borough game against Les Ramm & Shaughan Temple 21-11.
The second round started with a fine 21-20 win for Rita Bland & Pauline Allison over Jo Leeman & Ian Hadden (Whitby) to face Jennie & Tiny Allen (Hunmanby) who beat Sue Holdsworth (Hunmanby) & Sue Purcell (Whitby) 21-12.
Emmerson & Wale progressed with a 21-11 win against David Muir (Eastfield) & Dave Moment (North Cliff) to face their clubmates Colman & Rodgers who crushed Wright & Kenworthy 21-7.
Pryce & Price beat Brunton-Douglas & Carter 21-18 to set up an all-Borough game against the Watsons who just went through 21-20 against Holdsworth & Trotter.
Thornton & Lonnia went through 21-11 against Dobson & Tim Purcell while Landers & Ian Richardson destroyed the Barrs 21-6.
In the first quarter-final the Allens just went through 21-20 against Rita Bland & Allison while Coleman & Rodgers had a comfortable win in the all-Whitby game against Emmerson & Wale by 21-11.
Pryce & Price just held off the Watson’s challenge to win 21-18 and face Landers & Ian Richardson who won 21-17 against Thornton & Lonnia.
The semi-finals both ended 21-16 with Coleman & Rodgers beating the Allens and Pryce & Price putting Landers & Richardson out.
The final started as a fairly even contest with the score being 7-7 after 6 ends before Pryce & Price went 13-8 up after 10 ends.
The Whitby pair then pulled 2 back only for Pryce & Price to have 2 big ends to lead 19-10. Coleman & Rodgers did pull back to 19-14 in the next 3 ends but a 2 gave Pryce & Price the win, 21-14, after 17 ends.
On Saturday, North Cliff were competing in the semi-finals of Yorkshire’s Derrick Radley Cup against Littlemoor (Bradford District) at South Leeds Cons.
Cliff got off to a poor start losing 3 of the first 4 games. Nigel Trotter had the only win, 21-19, while Adam Chilvers lost 21-19, Joyce Ellis went down 21-15 and Paul Morgan was beaten 21-7 for a deficit of 81-62.
This pattern was repeated in the second group of games with Dave Moment being the only winner, 21-15. The losers were Allison Roe 21-15, Robert Child 21-17 and Scott Wardman 21-19.
This put Cliff 159-134 behind. The last four for Cliff made a tremendous effort to pull things back with only one close defeat, Alan Lee losing 21-18.
Callum Malone won 21-14, Alan Landers 21-10 and Danny Cooper’s 21-15 win was just not quite enough to get the team over the line the final score being 219-215 to Littlemoor.
On Monday in Division 2 of the Evening Singles Bridlington Bay B won 151-121 (5-3) away to Robin Hoods Bay and Dukes Park B won 158-95 (5-3) at home to Eastfield B.
North Cliff had a 137-100 (6-2) home win against Westgate B, Westgate A won 166-99 (7-1) at home to Dukes Park C and Whitby C beat Hunmanby B 142 118 (6-2), also at home.
On Tuesday in Division 1 Whitby A won 149-115 (6-2) at home to Borough B while Borough A just won 14-13 (4-4) at “home” to Borough C.
Cliff A had a convincing 163-103 (7-1) win at home to Bridlington Bay A, Whitby B had a 139-129 (4-4) win at Dukes Park A and finally Hunmanby A had a clean sweep winning 168-63 at home to North Cliff A.
In the Wednesday Over-60s League Borough A won 9-5 (114-97) at home to Whitby while Dukes Park A only dropped one point in a 13-1 (122-91) home win against local rivals Bridlington Bay A.
Eastfield had a mixed match at home to North Cliff winning to games very comfortably, losing one narrowly and the other three heavily to lose 11-4 (117-85) while Hunmanby A pressed to try to retain their Over-60s League crown with a 14-0 (157-61) home win against Borough B.
In Division 2 Westgate B had a 12-2 (125-84) home win against Dukes Park C, Bridlington Bay B lost on the aggregate, 9-6 (107-98) at home to Dukes Park B and Westgate A had a big 12-3 (125-93) away win against Robin Hood’s Bay.
In the Evening Doubles League on Thursday Hunmanby won 77-56 (2-2) away to North Cliff B while Borough A recorded a clean sweep, 84-46 at home to Dukes Park. Bridlington Bay also had a full house winning 84-25 at home to Westgate but Eastfield only just lost 72-69 (2-2) at home to high flying North Cliff A.
In the Saturday League Division 1 Hunmanby A won 9-3 (183-131) at home to Dukes Park A, Borough B beat Bridlington Bay A 8-4 (176-161 at home and Borough A won 8-5 (185-158) at Whitby by virtue of the aggregate scores.
In Division 2 Borough C made it three out of three for the club by winning 8-4 (178-169) at home to Robin Hood’s Bay.
Westgate B drew 6-6 (182-178) at home to Hunmanby B while Westgate A won the top of the table clash at Eastfield 9-4 (180-174) in a very close match.