Women's British League 1st Weekend

Created by Graham Trimming

an accredited ETTA EXCELLENCE PremierClub

It’s as you were for the ladies

The Cippenham team in the Women’s British League emerged from the first half of matches, played at Bristol, in fourth place in Division Four, precisely the position they finished last season. Sue Hayes has replaced Tanya Waller from last season in the team that now comprises also Denise Weller and Julie Dean, a trio that will also form the club’s women’s team in the Veterans’ British League in a couple of months time.

A win, a draw and three defeats gave Cippenham three points from a possible ten and they effectively lead the bottom half of a table that is already split into two halves. Julie won five of her ten matches, Denise four and captain Sue two although Sue was playing from the difficult number one position.

It was a tough introduction to the weekend as the first two matches were against the two teams that emerged in the top two places at the end of the weekend. Cippenham suffered 5-1 defeats in both and their only scorers were Denise in the match against Fusion and Julie against AICES. The first points of the season were secured in the final Saturday match when East Midland Draycott were beaten 4-2. Draycott’s number one Rachel Pilgrim scored both the Derbyshire side’s wins while Julie’s brace and one each for Sue and Denise made up Cippenham’s four. Importantly, Sue got Cippenham off to a great start when coming back from 2-1 down in games to beat the higher ranked Helen Lumby 11-9 in the fifth.

Another defeat followed on Sunday morning when all Cippenham could muster were wins for Julie and Denise over Lesley Slack as Gloucestershire ran out 4-2 victors. The weekend then finished on a disappointing note with a 3-3 draw with bottom team Morpeth Greenhouse B who had previously not scored a point. All three players contributed to the score. Sue had a particularly good win over Morpeth’s number one Sayeeda Miah who had beaten Denise 3-0 while Julie and Denise both beat Shazmina Yasmin.

Link to Women’s British League page