Result
Team
Hertfordshire (Men)
122 (17 points)
Opponents
Cambridgeshire
102 (5 points)
Date
Saturday 4 June at 2pm
Venue
Newmarket BC
Coach will depart from Hatfield BC at 11am and Royston BC at 11:45am.
Rink 1
T. Muir (Harpenden)
G. Avery (Welwyn G.C.)
A. Hutchison (B’ Stortford)
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Rink 2
S. Lee (Royston)
D. Oliver (Roebuck)
P. Element (Mill End)
M. Coppen (Royston)
Rink 3
J. Osborn (Harpenden)
M. O’Flanagan (Royston)
G. Warrender (Hertford Cstl)
M. Yelland (Garston)
Rink 4
J. Bishop (Rosedale)
M. Parsons (Baldock Town)
D. Macro (Townsend)
A. Briden (Townsend)
S. Kilford (Roebuck)
N. Muir (Harpenden)
J. Dowler (N’haw & Cuffley)
J. Rumball (Garston)
M. Tasker-Poland (Garston)
M. Plume (Buntingford)
J. Simmons (Garston)
M. Coles (Garston)
122 - 102
(17pts - 5pts)
Hertfordshire Middleton Cup Team led by IPP Peter McNulty travelled to Newmarket Avenue BC to commence their 2011 campaign.
A full squad of 30 players and a small band of supporters gathered at the Cambridgeshire club to cheer on the Hertfordshire team.
Hertfordshire made a slow start to the match dropping shots across the board on the first end. The second end saw only 1 rink score
and Cambridgeshire at this stage were 15 shots up. By the 3rd end the deficit was 21 shots and by the 4th end Cambridgeshire led by
29 shots. The rink led by Jerry Rumball were in trouble at 4 ends and were 13 shots behind to Richard Catton's rink without score and
the rink led by Andrew Briden were 10 shots down at 4 ends without scoring. Not the best of starts for the new Hertfordshire team but to
a man they stuck to the task. By the half way stage Hertfordshire had reduced the Cambridgeshire lead to 12 shots. Hertfordshire
managed to get ahead by 1 shot at the 14th end and looked like they had Cambridgeshire on the back foot.
At the 19th end Hertfordshire were leading on 5 rinks and looked like they were heading for a 20-2 points victory but Cambridgeshire
had other ideas. Cambridgeshire skip Steve Jacobs was 2 behind playing the last end against Hertfordshire skip Andrew Briden and
looked set to lose the points having been 12 up at 9 ends. Steve had other ideas and managed to score 2 shots to level the score and
share the rink points.
Hertfordshire rink skipped by Mark Yelland were 2 up playing the last end but suffered a 4 shot score against them on the last end to
drop 2 points to the Cambridgeshire rink skipped by Mark Law. The rink skipped by Jerry Rumball clawed their way through the match
to reduce the deficit on the rink to just 9 shots and were last to finish but the match was already over for Cambridgeshire.
Cambridgeshire President Tony Taylor congratulated the Hertfordshire team sponsor Peter McNulty on their victory
during the post match meal. Peter in his usual manner congratulated Tom Muir Harpenden on his first Middleton Cup
match and presented Alan Hutchison Bishops Stortford with his county badge on his first match representing
Hertfordshire in the Middleton Cup.
Peter continued to amuse those present with his fines system and the manner in which he thanked the the Newmarket
Avenue club for the facilities and the ladies for a very welcome post match meal which was a credit to all concerned.