Essex Vets Win National Championships

Three Stanway members represented Essex in the Veterans County Championship national finals at Lilleshall over the weekend.

Andy Lager and Simon Gilhooly were in the Over 40s team that defeated Gloucester in the semi-final thanks to a final mixed win by Andy with Justine Miller of PowerPlay. Despite an injury to Ian Smith (Epping) the team were able to overcome Leicester (7-5) in the final thanks to strength in the ladies & mixed matches. Julia Cloughton was a key member of the team that won through the regional stage.

Trevor Rogers captained the Over 45s team to a convincing win in their semi-final against Avon (11-1) before defeating Cheshire (8-4) to retain the trophy they had won a year earlier.

Unfortunately the Over 50s team ran into a very strong Yorkshire side in their final.

O40 Team: Karina Bye (Leighway), Tracy Hutchinson, Ady Munro (Power Play), Justine Miller (Power Play), Simon Gilhooly, Andy Lager, Phil Tuffee (Thurrock) and Ian Smith (Epping)

O45 Team: Amanda Austin (Eagles), Lesley Pallett (Chelmsford Casuals), Donna Tubb, June Shipman (Leighway), Trevor Rogers, Richard Taylor (Epping), Paul Belcher (Chelmsford Casuals), Bir Singh (Ramgarhia)

O50 Team: Viv Gillard (Leighway), Sue Crompton (Leighway), Pam Lee (Chelmsford Casuals), Andi Stretch (Leighway), Peter Moseley (Chelmsford Casuals), Paul Kirby (Danbury), Ross Ranson (Danbury), Dave Spurling