Match Reports

This season’s Carnation Cup has now reached the quarter final stage after the latest round of matches were completed this week. The second round of the pairs handicap competition kicked off with three matches being played at Worksop Leisure Centre on Tuesday night with two close games and one comfortable game. Simon Hooley and Harry Clarke found little resistance in overcoming Peter Eyre and Isabella Saul 5-0 and easing themselves into the quarter finals. Perry Bradford and Dave Rix found the going much tougher in their match as they came up against Mark Bloomer and Kathy McIntyre. When Bradford beat McIntyre and Rix defeated Bloomer to take a 2-0 lead the match looked all over but McIntyre and Bloomer hit back to win the doubles and then levelled the match at 2-2 when McIntyre beat Rix. That left the match beautifully poised with Bradford and Bloomer left to fight it…full report »

Sparken Hill Hawks continued their good to their Division Three league campaign with an 8-2 win over Sparken Hill Blue Jays who were considered one of the favourites for promotion before the start of the season. Bothe Lewis Linacre and Paul Wendon returned comfortable looking hat tricks over Ivan Stallworthy, Dave Lee and John McIntyre with Tom Wendon adding two wins after beating Lee and McIntyre. Stallworthy managed to avoid his side losing all the singles games when he managed to overcome Tom Wendon in 4 very close games. The Blue Jays did manage to add another win to their total as Cath McIntyre and Stallworthy came together to beat Linacre and Tom Wendon in straight sets.
The win puts the Hawks level on points with DTH Redlands Rovers who were involved in a top of the table clash with DTH Redlands Rookies who had a 100% record in…full report »

This season’s Carnation Cup saw 50 players enter the competition which is a record for the event since its inception 37 years ago. The large amount of entries meant that there would be several byes and the first round would have to be played over two nights.
The first evening of games were played at Worksop Leisure Centre with three out of the four matches being real close affairs. Andy Vinson and Gary Robinson enjoyed a close 3-2 win over George Makrakis and Joseph Wootton despite Makrakis winning both his singles games. Ben Swain and Glen Gillgrass also won their game against Kay Wilson and Paul Wendon by the same margin with Wendon remaining unbeaten in his two singles games. Another game that was won by the narrowest of margins was the game between Neil Fisher and Nick Sievewright who managed to sneak into the next round by…full report »

As we start to reach the half way point of the league fixtures, Division Two side Worksop Welfare Snipers ‘B’ are well on their way to a top two finish which will subsequently mean a place in the top-flight next season. They have now won 9 out of 9 league fixtures and will surely not only finish in the top two promotion places but will also clinch the title with a number of games to spare.
Their 9^th win in the league came against Worksop Welfare Cannon who can count themselves a little unfortunate to have lost the match 10-0 as a number of games were very close going to 4 and 5 sets. The Snipers trio of Paul Linfield, George Makrakis and Mitchell Radford all returned hat tricks with Linfield and Makrakis teaming up to take the doubles against Nick Sievewright and Kay Wilson with Wilson unfortunate not…full report »

The first round of this seasons Mike Tunningley Handicap Shield threw up plenty of upsets with teams from lower divisions getting the better of their opponents from the divisions above. The biggest scalp was that of DTH Redlands Fluffy Toys who currently sit second in the Division One table but their opponents and club colleagues DTH Redlands Mean Machine didn’t let that get in their way as they pulled off the shock of the first round. The Fluffy Toys won every game on the night amassing the maximum points on the table of 378 but their opponents Harry Clarke, Daisy Walshaw and Grace Dickenson fought gamely to score 148 points of their own and after adding the 285 handicap points that were awarded to them it meant that the Mean Machine won the match 433 points to 378.
Another shock came when DTH Redlands Monsters who are the current…full report »