‘B’  v  SELBY & HAMBLETON

 

10.01.2010

 

We were 2 imps up in the first session, lost 52 in the second and a further 6 in the third, and clawed 15 back in the last round.   On the face of it, a relatively close game apart from the disastrous second session, but closer examination reveals a slightly different scenario.

 

In the first round there was a flat board, we won two, but lost the remaining five.   We were only in front because of a freak result on board 2 when Ray & Christine found the only making game whilst Paddy & Val were extracting a 1100 penalty from their opponents.

 

In the second round the deficit was almost wholly attributable to the fact that our two ‘stronger’ pairs, as mentioned above, were completely outplayed and registered only one plus score apiece.   Neither of them can have relished the experience and it is to their eternal credit that they both fought back sufficiently to finish well ahead of Chris & Pauline and Paul & Ingrid overall.

 

It might be more realistic to look at the Selby scores, from which it is apparent that their pairs 2 and 3 were both outstanding on the day and finished well clear of their own colleagues as well as our pairs.

 

We are grateful to Selby & Hambleton for volunteering to stage the match and for their generous and delightful hospitality, which we would hope to reciprocate in the future but with a better outcome.

 

 

 

Pair

 

1st Session

2nd Session

3rd Session

4th Session

Total

 

 

 

Ray & Christine

880

-1530

-380

850

-180

Paddy & Val

610

-1570

520

1430

990

Chris & Pauline

560

370

-900

-1360

-1330

Paul & Ingrid

-1090

210

30

-340

-1190

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selby & Hambleton 1

-880

-210

900

-1430

-1620

Selby & Hambleton 2

-610

1530

-30

1360

2250

Selby & Hambleton 3 Hambleton

-560

1570

380

340

1730

Selby & Hambleton 4

1090

-370

-520

-850

-650