Congratulations to Shrewsbury on beating Church Stretton in their West Midlands Feb match. The Shrewsbury team comprising Margaret Extance, Phil Extance, Julian Remfry and Alan Ridley won by four games to one.
The day started in a very strange fashion. I arrived at the car park to find the police questioning a youth and combing hedges. I wondered if that was where all of our ball markers had disappeared to. I opened the gate to find the gardener standing next to a dead lawn mower in the middle of Park Side lawn. It couldn’t be pushed off the lawn, so we faced the prospect of playing on a single lawn. Fortunately, two mechanics arrived and fixed it in time for play to start.
How could the games live up to that excitement? Well, we felt very excited at 2-0 up by lunchtime, having won a doubles and a singles game, the latter on a golden hoop. In the afternoon we won two of the three singles games to run out 4-1 winners, which had the virtual champagne corks popping! Julian was the star player as he was the only one to peg out.
The next game is at home to Broadwas on 14th June. If anyone would like to take part, let Sean know or put your name on the sheet in the clubhouse.
Alan Ridley