EV1 competition result

Yesterday, Sunday 16th Oct, the final of the AC level advanced (EV1) was played in glorious autumn sunshine watched initially by Ian Shore and latterly by Jane Gloster and Jenny Leach from the other lawn.  Last year’s winner, Mike Porter (-0.5) was playing Richard Peperell (2.5). Richard started well getting to hoop 10 (4-back) but made a mess of his leave which allowed Mike to equalise the scores. Richard continued his cautious play to win 26-10 and joins Duncan Reeve (2020 Champ) and Raouf Allim (2018 Champ) as club AC Champ.

Both Jane and Jenny became quite alarmed at one stage as they witnessed Richard laying prostate on the ground but all was well once it was explained this is standard tactic in AC when ‘Pegging Out’, the finish of the match...thus the common expression (but hopefully not for Richard!)

Keith Pound HWCC Competitions Manager