Yorkshire League 1 Clinch Top Honours
The Yorkshire league team delivered an impressive performance on Saturday to lift the Yorkshire League Division 1 title for the first time since the 2004/05 season. A 10-4 victory over local rivals Breakaways the seventh 10+ victory of the season earned the team maximum points and an unassailable lead in the race to top Yorkshire honours.
Nicky Chan Lam fast out of the blocks delivered a crushing 21-13 21-6 ladies singles win against Derbyshire’s Sarah Pulley followed by Alex Marritt’s 21-11 21-15 win against former England International Kristian Roebuck. 2-0 Brunswick.
The men’s double saw some well contested matches the pick of the bunch being the one contested by Mark Needham & Glenn Coburn v Robin Harris & Loz Johnson with Mark and Glenn winning the important rubber 21-18 in the 3rd end. 3-1 to Breakaways in the Men’s Doubles rubbers.
Brunswick had the upper hand in the ladies doubles winning 4 rubbers with relative ease. Brunswick 7-3 up going into the mixed.
Needing 3 rubbers from the mixed to win maximum points Alex & Cristen contesting the top event lost in 2 ends; Mark & Tracy playing 3rd mixed won 21-19 21-10 securing a win for the team and guaranteeing 3 points.
The 2nd and 4th mixed saw Brunswick win both first ends with Rob & Nicki eventually winning their rubber 21-19 21-16 and therefore it was left to Lisa and Glenn to bring home the final rubber and seal the 10-4 victory and the bonus point that meant the title was once again Brunswick’s.
All in all an excellent team performance across the entire season.
Brunswick Prevail in Teeside…
An impressive 13 – 1 win for the Yorkshire League Team over their long time rivals Middlesborough kept the pressure on League Leaders Belle Vue who on the day before had surprisingly lost to Richmond & Darlington.
The evergreen Club’s Treasurer Craig Fisher at 50 made his season debut and partnered by Glenn in the Men’s doubles and Tracy Parker in the mixed collected 2 important rubbers.
Alex carrying a slight thigh strain struggled through the first end of his singles narrowly losing 21-18 before charging back to win in 3. Teaming up with Rob Oadley in the Men’s and Cristen in the Mixed Alex secured 4 points for the team.
4 ladies doubles rubbers a clean sweep were gathered by the ladies all in straight sets.
9-1 going into the mixed became 13-1 and maximum points were won for the 6th time this season.
Combined A Secure Hard Fought Win
Combined A secured a hard fought 6-3 win in their final match of the season against Cudworth at the Dorothy Hyman Stadium, Barnsley and with the win completed a 100% unbeaten record throughout the season and were once again crowned Combined Feathers Division 1 Champions
Combined A Cruise To Victory
Combined A cruised to a comfortable 9 – 0 victory over University at Norton College and with one match remaining the league is now secured for a record 25th consecutive year since the inauguration of the feathers league in Sheffield. Brett Russell just back from a month travelling the world with work made his season debut for the team and delivered 3 rubbers in comfortable style.
Brunswick Mens 2 seal promotion
The season may not be over but the race for promotion is for Brunswick Mens 2. A 7-2 victory over a strong Bessecarr team at EIS last night, means that promotion is guaranteed. Despite Bessecarr fielding a strong side Brunswick Mens 2 were more than up to the challenge and delivered an excellent all-round team performance. The match itself was quite closely contested with several 3 enders during the encounter. Mens 2 still have 2 more matches to play towards the end of April but they will definitely be back in the 1st division next season. Well done to all involved.
Yorkshire League v Doncaster
Following the recent disappointing home defeat to Belle Vue; the Yorkshire League team returned to winning ways with an impressive 10 – 4 win in Hull against Doncaster. A Doncaster team benefitting from its connections with Cheshire fielded four of their County players and got off to an impressive start in both singles winning the opening games however resilient play from both Cristen and Alex saw them both fight back in impressive style to win their rubbers in 3 games. The opening round of doubles saw Mark and Glenn and Lisa and Tracy take their matches in two games; a 4 nil lead was a great start.
In the top men’s doubles match Mark and Glenn had a terrific battle with Julian and Mike with some monster rallies eventually losing 21-17 in the 3rd end. Lisa and Tracy made it a double win and Rachel and Cristen went down to Nicola and Rachel Vickers with Alex and Rob beating the Cheshire pairing of John Griffiths and Paul Anderson in a well contested rubber. 6 – 2 to Brunswick.
In their reverse ladies doubles Rachel and Cristen lost a close 3 setter whilst Alex and Rob having lost their opening game 21-10 to Doncaster’s top pairing charged back to set up a 3rd set thriller with Rob serving at 20-19 to Julian; a brave flicked serve ace and the rubber was won. 7 – 3 to Brunswick; soon became 7 – 4 as Mark and Rachel not at their best went down to an impressive display form the seasoned Cheshire pairing of Kay Vickers and Paul Anderson.
The target was to win the remaining 3 rubbers to achieve a bonus point; happily with 3 strong performances all 3 rubbers went Brunswick’s way in 2 ends and the match was won 10 – 4.
Mens 1 Get Back To Winning Ways
Brunswick Mens 1 returned to winning ways with avengence against Wingfield.
After the poor performance in the loss against Mosborough and knowing prior to the game that another defeat would see their title hopes vanish, Brunswick Mens 1 put in the performance of the season so far to beat one of the pre-season favourites. With 100% records for Steve Parry, Rob Oadley, Glenn Coburn and Mark Needham and an additional victory from Ben Collins and Donn Thomkinson the men secured a convincing 7 - 2 victory.
With two games remaining a 25th league title is still in their own hands.
Combined A overcome Cudworth
Combined A overcame Barnsley’s Finest Cudworth 8-1 at the EIS on Wednesday continuing their relentless march for an unprecedented 25th combined league consecutive title.
Comb B v Comb A
Brunswick Combined A overcame a spirited challenge form the second team in last nights match at the EIS. Whilst the final score suggested an easy victory for the A team it was anything but that with some well contested 3 end rubbers in the middle part of the match which went the way of Brunswick A.
Mark Needham and Ben Collins secured the only rubber for the B team with a narrow 21-19 third end victory in the top men’s doubles. Nicki Chan-Lam and Fayaz Ladak made fine season debuts for Combined B.
Brunswick v CSR Sunday 4th December 2011
Arriving at Abbeydale last Sunday and seeing CSR’s men’s line up with a Lancashire and Yorkshire Champion from this years events making up their number they believed that the advantage was with them; however our Men hadn’t read the script and delivered a resounding 5 – 0 victory in that part of the match. Alex Marritt lead the line well with a strong singles victory against Lancashire’s leading player Tom Monk then teaming up with Rob Oadley taking both doubles. Our ladies equally acquitted themselves well winning 4 – 1. A 9 – 1 winning lead going into the mixed soon became 12 – 2 and all 4 points to Brunswick.
3 wins from 3 matches and 12 points has been a solid start to the season.
