BADMINTON

Cornwall Badminton Championships by Sue Briscoe

THE top players in Cornwall took part in this year’s tournament to find the county champions, at Cornwall College’s sports hall in Pool over the final weekend of September. 

Day one began with the men’s and women’s singles, and there were several sets of brothers and cousins battling it out in the men’s – the Hill family, the Dyers and the Brazewells, amongst the other men.

The two top seeds, Harry and Jack Dyer, made it through to the final and played a close match of speed and amazing reflexes before Jack beat his brother in two exciting ends.

In the women’s event, Joanna Vyvyan came out a deserved winner over Hope Warner due to her consistent play and athletic court coverage.

The women’s doubles was dominated by top seeds Hope and Bridget Murray who won comfortably overall, although Maddie Griffiths and Hannah Pugh played well to take the second slot.

The next day was another busy one, with the mixed and men’s doubles and two plate events, so things kicked off with the mixed and some close games involving young and up and coming players and the more experienced pairs. 

There was a tight semi-final involving James Whetter and Vicki Meade taking Jack Dyer and Joanna Vyvyan to three ends, but the second seeds Jack and Joanna won to progress to the final, where they were no match for top seeds Elliot Dyer and Hope Warner who won in two ends.

In the men’s quarter finals, there were two close three-ender games involving Frank Adams and his partner Alec Netley-Reseigh beating Tony Wong and Chen Yu Zhao, plus Lee Chappel and Ben Tredinnick winning against Dominic and James Hill, but the top two seeds eventually progressed to the final.           

The final was also an exciting match, as James Whetter and Guy Michell, the evergreen St Austell pair, took Harry and Jack Dyer to three ends of skilful, fast badminton with the Dyer brothers outlasting their opponents to take the title, and finish an excellent weekend’s badminton.  

Congratulations to the three Dyers, Jack, Elliot and Harry, who between them won three out of the five Championship events. Winners of all five events can play in Badminton England’s prestigious Champion of Champions event at Badminton England’s Milton Keynes headquarters in May next year.

The results were as follows: Men’s Singles: Winner – Jack Dyer beat Harry Dyer 21-19 21-19; Women’s Singles: Winner – Joanna Vyvyan beat Hope Warner 21-16 21-17; Women’s Doubles: Winners – Hope Warner and Bridget Murray beat Maddie Griffiths and Hannah Pugh 21-8 and 21-12.

Mixed Doubles: Winners – Elliot Dyer and Hope Warner beat Jack Dyer and Joanna Vyvyan 21-12 21-19; Men’s Doubles: Winners – Harry and Jack Dyer beat James Whetter and Guy Michell 21-18, 19-21 and 21-14.

There were also three Plate events with the winners being: Jake Brazwell (Men’s Singles), Julian Cooper and Jess Canfield (Mixed Doubles) and Julian Cooper and Alex Hill (Men’s Doubles).

GOLF

Newquay Golf Club

AFTER the torrential rain on Sunday, September 29, it was touch and go whether the ladies would be able to play the friendly match away at Lanhydrock the next day, but as luck would have it the news came through that the match was on. 

The ladies enjoyed the hospitality of the Bodmin-based ladies with the result of the match being a very honourable draw.

Two days later saw the ladies sign up for a medal or nine-hole Stableford.

The medal was won by Debbie Cain with a nett 69, closely followed by Lesley Pocklington with a nett 70. 

In the nine-hole Stableford, Anne Poole took the honours with an impressive 22 points. Sandra Lloyd and Rose Howe were second and third with 20 and 19 points respectively.

St Austell Golf Club by Sue Pascoe

Lady Vets Individual Stableford qualifier – Monday, September 30

Results: 1 Caroline Cudmore – 33pts; 2 Julie Green – 32pts; 3 Josie Mather – 26pts.

Seniors four-man team Stableford switching partners every six holes with the Better Ball of each pair to count – Tuesday, October 1

Results: 1 Derek Loader, Dave Bridges, Martin Barnicle and John McCarthy – 86pts; 2 Ed Gard, Mick Maguire, Malcolm Greenhill and Keith Oliver – 83pts; 3 Bill Truscott, Ian Collier, Keith Minor and Steve Reed – 82pts (c/b).

Midweek Stableford – Wednesday, October 2

Results: 1 Simon Lambert – 40pts; 2 David Barnes – 38pts; 3 Pete Smith – 37pts (c/b).

Seniors match at home v China Fleet – Friday, October 4

THE hosts eased to a 7-1 victory over their Saltash-based opponents in the Clay Country.

Men’s Individual Stableford – Saturday, October 5

ON A DAY where Graham Stark struck a ‘hole-in-one’ on the par 3, 16th, it was James Noble that won by two points from Mark Jago and Dan Olver, the latter missing out on second on countback.

SNOOKER

St Blazey and District League by Geoff Hawken

MEVAGISSEY B produced the result of the night in the top division, the Victory League, coming away from Tregonissey A with four frames under their belt with great wins for Ben Rothwell, Nathan Shaw, Mark Gregory and Matt Rowe.

The home side’s Jason Cocks made a 32 break in defeating Dave Kendall.

Bugle A stay top after beating Pelynt by the odd frame.

Andrew Best, Gary Spencer and Josh Bristow got their frames with Andrew Gooch and Len Flower replying.

Steve Courts’ 40 and Darren Lock’s 47 helped St Neot defeat Tregonissey B by four frames to one with Chris Perring and Ant Maddams also winning.

Jason Pascoe and Paul Baron (38 break) got Bethel D’s points against their A team with Andy Peers, Mark Ashton and Garry Stephens getting the business done for the defending champions.

St Blazey B stay top of the Rees League after a 4-1 victory at Mevagissey C as Kyle Bennetts, Gavin Dyche, George Taylor and Clive Stuthridge all won, with a delighted Lynn Kearns beating Martin Richards to get the home point.

Graham Hoskin was Lerryn’s only winner at Bugle B, beating Colin Rundle as the home side moved up to second place as Mike Williams, Dave Rundle, Roy Bayliss and Keith Moore were all successful.

The Bethel derby between the C and B sides was a tight affair.

Howard Brett took the first frame against Matt Moore and Martin Powell squeezed past Terry Nicholls in the next, but Darren Biggens’ black ball win over Paul Smithson pulled a frame back only for Leigh Rosevear to hammer Ady Dyche to get the win.

Craig Nicholls’ heavy defeat of Ben Stunell got the B team a second point.

Mevagissey C won the local derby at 3-2 at Gorran Haven with Adrian Evans, Richard Tamblin and Oliver Watson securing their points. Warren Ball and Steve Williams replied for the hosts.