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Shires League and Team Tournaments 2011-12

Date

V.

Result

9 Oct 2011

Essex (home)

Lost 7-13

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16 Oct 2011

Cambridgeshire (home)

Won 11 - 9

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20 Nov 2011

Hertfordshire (away)

Draw 10 - 10

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27 Nov 2011

Eastern Region Team Tournament (Bedfordshire)

4 Dec 2011

Norfolk (home)

Won 17 - 3

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8 Jan 2012

Kent (home)

Won 16 - 4

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12 Feb 2012

Northamptonshire (away)

Won 19 - 1

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26 Feb 2012

Shires League Playoff v. Essex (away)

Rubbers drawn 10 - 10

Won on games 27 - 23

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1 Apr 2012

Shires League Finals, Hatfield

7th

11 to 15 Apr 2012

Inter-Counties Tournament (Nottingham University)

9th out of 40

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21 Apr 2012

Under-17 Eastern Region Single Sex Tournament (Luton)

Shires League Semifinals                       Sunday 26th February 2012

The Suffolk Under-17 Team travelled to Harlow to play Essex in a Shires League play-off on Sunday 26th Feb. The prize for the winner of this match would be an invite to the Shires League Finals Day on Sun 1st April at Hatfield. Having lost 7-13 to Essex during the main part of the season the pressure was on, however with different players available for this match, confidence was high for at least a much closer score line and ultimately a win over our close rivals. The match started with four mixed of which Suffolk won three. With three of the four matches going to theee games, the tone was set for the remainder of the match with many more matches going to three games. Honours were even in the boys’ singles but Essex brought the match score back to level by taking 3 of the 4 girls’ singles. In

the end both the girls’ and the boys’ doubles were shared, however with Suffolk winning all their 4 doubles in 2 games & with Essex needing three games to win their four doubles the final result was a 10 all draw. In normal Shires matches this would have been the final score, but with a winner needed once the games count back was done, Suffolk had won 27 and Essex 23, giving Suffolk the excellent win by four games. All members of the team gave their utmost efforts and with the combination of match wins and the determination shown in pushing Essex to needing 3 games to win 7 out of the 10 matches they won, an excellent team effort.

Lisa Jacobs (Squad Manager)

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Shires League Finals                                           Sunday 1st April 2012

Following the Under-17 team’s success at the playoffs in late February, we travelled to Hatfield Sports Village to compete at the finals. The teams which also qualified through the main league programme were Yorkshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire and Cheshire with Hertfordshire, Warwickshire and Avon also qualifying through the playoffs.

The top four league teams were drawn to play the winners of the playoffs with Suffolk drawn against Buckinghamshire. The playing format followed a normal Shires League match with the exception that each game was one set to 21 points with no setting. After some excellent play against strong opposition Suffolk lost 5-15.

The second round was again drawn, with the winners from the last round, Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire & Warwickshire to compete for first to fourth positions, and the runners up from the first round to contest the fifth to eight positions. Unfortunately the draw was not favourable to us, with Hampshire drawn as our opposition. Hampshire girls were particularly strong and the mixed would prove to be the pivotal event. After very close games Hampshire eventually took all four mixed which did prove to be conclusive, the final match score 14-6 win to Hampshire.

Our final match to decide seventh & eight positions, placed us against Avon. Having been determined at the start of the event that we were not there to just settle for eight position, our resolve was high to win the last match. Following very convincing strong performances Suffolk won 16-4 giving us seventh position. Had the second round drawn been more favourable we could have played Avon in the second round and consequently been in the fifth/sixth playoff, but as with most sports, positions can ultimately depend on the luck of the draw.

The team of Claudette Reis, Ash Gormer, Kym Gormer, Izzy Lucas, Tine Jensen, Tim Scott, Tommy Banham, George Isherwood & James Clouting will be joined by George Caplin who was unavailable for the Shires Finals, and will be representing Suffolk at the Inter-Counties Tournament (ICT) in Nottingham from Thursday 12th to Sunday 15th April.

Lisa Jacobs (Squad Manager)

Score Sheets ► (Microsoft document file from Shires Badminton website)