By Janet Biles
Results from the u19 boys inter county match on Sunday 11th Oct
Dorset v Hampshire
The first match went to the Hampshire side as nerves got the better of Eddie Yau (2RM) in his début match representing the county. Alex Sawyer (WH) evened the match with a good strong win to boost the side. A much improved Tom Trower (Sherborn) played a very controlled game against Hampshire's ES&R ranked player Bradley Pletts, but Pletts always seemed to come up with a winning shot. Unfortunately Marc James ‘s (2RM) game came to a sudden end after some very long rally's in the first game as the Hampshire boy retired hurt with a bad back and was unable to continue. This evened the match at 2 all. With Ryan McKechnie (DOR & WS&FC) to play Hampshire's number one Richard Johnson who has an ES&R ranking in the top 50. Ryan started off slowly but then evened it up the match at 1 game all. The third game went to 10-10 with both boys having game point as they tried to get 2 points clear, eventually Ryan clinched it 14-12. In the fourth game Ryan went into an early lead and looked like he had it won, Richard fought back but too late with Ryan winning the 4th game and the match for Dorset
Devon v Dorset
This is always a tough tie as Devon is one of the strongest counties in the south west. With players in the top 10 in the ES&R rankings (Ben Rogers is no.6)
All I can say is that all of the boys made me proud and pleased with the improvement against this team and if they had made the most of the opportunities presented to them they could have taken more points and games off of this very strong side. Eddie Yau's improvement showed as he settled down and got on with the game. Congratulations to our u19 boys in coming second and progressing to stage 2 in the top group. This will be held on the 24th Jan 2010 venue to be confirmed
Next Inter-county matches are on the 25th OCT.
Teams are
U13 girls - Jessica West, Elise Bailey, Abigail Hurd, Sophie Sawyer
U17 girls - Kate Alcock, Lara, Small, Jennifer Holmes, Kirsty Small, Katherine Howell
U17 boys - Karl Bushby, Ross McKechnie, Liam Cooper-Blaney, Shaun Kendell, Sam McIntyre
Match 1 |
| Dorset | v | Hampshire | Score | Games |
| 1 | Ryan McKechnie |
| Richard Johnson | 3-1 | 6/11, 11/6, 14/12, 11/8 |
| 2 | Marc James |
| Lewis Stubbington | 3-0 | 11/4 1/0 Ret |
| 3 | Tom Trower |
| Bradley Pletts | 1-3 | 7/11, 11/6, 5/11, 4/11 |
| 4 | Eddie Yau |
| Mike Burn | 0-3 | 2/11, 1/11, 1/11 |
| 5 | Alex Sawyer |
| Mike Psaila | 3-1 | 11/5, 5/11, 11/6, 11/7 |
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| Result | 15-8 |
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Match 2 |
| Devon | v | Hampshire | Score | Games |
| 1 | Ben Rogers |
| Richard Johnson | 3-0 | 11/8, 11/2, 11/5 |
| 2 | jack Barns |
| Bradley Pletts | 3-0 | 11/3, 11/7, 11/4 |
| 3 | Steve Lewis |
| Mike Burn | 3-1 | 6/11, 11/9 13/11, 11/5 |
| 4 | Conner Andrews |
| Mike Psaila | 3-0 | 11/5, 12/10, 11/2 |
| 5 | Oli Coupe |
| W/O | 3-0 |
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| Result | 20-1 |
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Match 3 |
| Devon | v | Dorset | Score | Games |
| 1 | Ben Rogers |
| Ryan McKechnie | 3-0 | 11/4, 11/7, 11/7 |
| 2 | jack Barns |
| Marc James | 3-0 | 11/4, 12/10, 11/8 |
| 3 | Steve Lewis |
| Tom Trower | 3-1 | 11/5, 11/13, 11/1, 11/7 |
| 4 | Conner Andrews |
| Eddie Yau | 3-1 | 9/11, 11/1, 11/3, 11/7 |
| 5 | Oli Coupe |
| Alex Sawyer | 3-0 | 11/5, 12/10, 11/8 |
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| Result | 20-2 |
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