Wonderful Watsons home in on Borough Over-60s Doubles victory
On Friday there were 23 pairs entered in Borough’s Over-60s Doubles.
In the opening game of the preliminary round Rita & Tony Bland (Borough) won 21-15 against Sue Purcell (Whitby) & Pauline Allison (Borough).
The North Cliff pairing of Alan Landers & Ian Richardson had a 21-18 win over Hunmanby’s Geoff Oldham & Phil Todd and Pete Charter & Barry Gosling won an all-Borough game against Shaughan Temple & Les Ramm by the same margin.
Kenny Wale & Emmo Emmerson (Whitby) won against another Borough pair, Steve Price & Stuart Sherburn 21-19 to face Cliff’s Alan Lee & Dave Moment who eased past Ashley Brunton-Douglas & David Muir (Eastfield) 21-11.
Richard Jackson (Thongsbridge) & Gary Thornton (Borough) made it through 21-19 against home pairing Robin Daplyn & Ronnie Noble while Graham & Ros Bland (Sheffield) just won 21-20 against Joyce Harland & Tommy Roberts (Whitby).
In the first round Robert Child (North Cliff) & Jack Richardson (Hunmanby) had a surprisingly easy 21-11 win against Whitby’s Ian Hadden & Jo Leeman to face Barrie & Caroline Watson who won an all-Borough game against Jim & Lil Barr 21-13.
Larry Dixon (Westgate) & Albert Beggs (Bridlington Bay) crushed Greg Long & Pam Moment (North Cliff) 21-7 to set up a game against Chris Dobson (Dukes Park) & Tim Purcell (Whitby) who beat Borough duo Brian Dalby & Sue Wilkinson, 21-16.
Steve Dover & Geoff Watson (Whitby) won 21-13 against Rita & Tony Bland while Charter & Gosling had a good 21-17 win over Landers & Ian Richardson.
Wale & Emmerson had a 21-6 win over Lee & Moment and Jackson & Thornton made it through 21-8 against Graham & Ros Bland.
Barrie & Caroline Watson had a 21-17 win in the first quarter-final against Child & Jack Richardson to set up a semi-final against Dobson & Purcell who eliminated Dixon & Beggs 21-12.
Charter & Gosling had a big 21-9 win against Dover & Geoff Watson, while Jackson & Thornton were even more emphatic, winning 21-6 against Wale & Emmerson.
In the first semi-final Barrie & Caroline Watson won 21-11 against Dobson & Purcell and Jackson & Thornton made it through to the final 21-17 against Charter & Gosling.
The final started fairly evenly with Jackson & Thornton leading 8-6.
The Watsons then scored two 3s to lead 12-8 only for Jackson & Thornton to pull back 3 to 1 in the next 4 ends to trail 13-11. The Watsons then scored 2 to 2 to lead 15-12 after 13 ends before they scored four singles to lead 19-12 after 17 ends.
Jackson & Thornton pulled back to level the scores at 19-19 after 20 ends only for Caroline Watson to bowl two superb woods to win the game and the competition.
In the first round of the Eric Hutchinson Cup Borough travelled to Colton (Leeds District) to play Brighouse (West Riding) while Hunmanby and Whitby had byes.
Borough won the first five games to lead 105-56. Brighouse won the next three games to make it 143-119 but four more wins gave Borough the match 227-156.
In the Derrick Radley Cup Brid Bay came back to win 217-164 against Slazenger’s 2 (Wakefield) at Magnet Sports, Tadcaster.
Dukes Park came up against Lindley BC 2 (Huddersfield) at South Leeds Cons (Leeds).
Park dropped two of the first six games but led 117-82 at the halfway point. In spite of only winning two games in the second half the scores were good enough for a 218-180 win overall.
North Cliff played Cleckheaton Sports 2 (West Riding) at Thorner (Leeds).
They lost two of the first six games but led 113-82 at that point and won five of the remaining six games for a 233-174 win to make it a clean sweep for our teams.