SOLOMON TROPHY 2009
Apologies for the length of this report which I have
separated into 4 parts which will hopefully all be
small enough for the list and not need further
separating. The length arises partly due to my present
situation riding Amtrak's Southwest Chief from Los
Angeles to Chicago. We are just approaching Las Vegas,
New Mexico 1056 miles done, 1200 miles and 23 hours to
go! What better way to lick your wounds!
For the second consecutive renewal on American soil
the event was played at the Mission Hills Country
Club, Rancho Mirage (near Palm Springs California)
December 4th – 7th. The previous day saw five of the
team of six (Robin Brown, Ian Burridge (Capt), Jeff
Dawson, Tony Le Moignan and Samir Patel) arrive and
after a mornings practice we played the traditional
curtain raiser the President's Match, under American
Rules, one short. The Americans played three of their
Solomon Team (Danny Huneycutt, Jeff Soo (Capt) and Ben
Rothman) along with local members Ron Hendry and Jim
Butts. Danny beat Ian +24 when Ian's first attack came
to grief when a 13 yard take off hilled out of bounds
effectively conceding the game. Tony saw a two yard
dribble at a ball on the 9” line curl off to also
effectively lose his and Jeff's game by 23 to Ben and
Ron.
At this point I was thinking that by American
standards the lawns were not very flat, they were
running at just over 11 secs with good grass quality
and very easy hoops but there were apparently
significant hills along some boundaries. As it
transpired in the Solomon Trophy the lawns were
perfect for the association game, to the best of my
knowledge nobody had a ball hill off the court on a
croquet stroke and there were very few shots that
hilled off either.
The British salvaged some pride when Robin and Samir
beat Jeff and Jim +22. I have been involved in a
couple of President's matches in the past and this was
rather a disappointing one with the failings of US
rules being quickly exposed in all the matches and
there being little competitive interest.
Stephen Mulliner arrived that evening to bolster the
British team and Jim Bast, who like Stephen played in
the first match GB v USA match in 1985, Doug Grimsley
and Jerry Stark made up the US team. Interestingly the
GB team were all fathers something which I am fairly
sure is unique as far as GB is concerned and maybe as
far as any other International side goes too.
The Mission Hills Club is a very large country club
with I would guess in excess of 1000 properties
surrounding at least to two golf courses, 30+ tennis
courts and 10 croquet lawns, of which we used six.
Three of the four front lawns and three back lawns
were used for the singles, the back lawns double up as
tennis courts and although there were some scars along
the centre line (in non critical positions) where the
net posts are placed there was no damage around the
baselines which has certainly been a major problem on
dual purpose courts I have played on in the past. The
ground seemed a little firmer on the back courts and
the grass quality slightly different but essentially
they were very similar to the front lawns. Whilst the
hoops appeared no more difficult I did sense that more
peels stuck on the back lawns than on the front and
the hoops were probably very marginally more difficult.
The Solomon Trophy got underway the next morning
around 30 minutes late as an overnight frost delayed
the mowing of the lawns. There was a good gathering of
local members, who showed a keen interest in the match
and a knowledge of what was going on throughout. Two
of them Mick and Sandy Greasby (Tunbridge Wells and
Mission Hills) were even supporting us.
The match started well for the US with them winning
the first game in each match, but Huneycutt then put a
ball out of bounds when taking an odd line of play to
set up the first break of game two against Burridge
and Brown and he and his partner Stark did not take
croquet again and GB led 1-0 at lunch. This quickly
became 2-0 as Dawson recovered his form which had
deserted him in the first and he and Patel quickly
wrapped up the second and third games. Mulliner and Le
Moignan had also equalised against Grimsley and
Rothman with what looked from afar like a good
controlled sextuple from Stephen in conditions he
assessed as the most sextuple friendly since the
Hurlingham Opens of 2007. When Mulliner completed a
TPO in the third it looked like GB were heading for a
3-0 despite losing the first game in each match.
Unfortunately the TPO tactics of Tony and Stephen
seemed somewhat incompatible and the ending turned out
to be a tortuous affair after Tony had failed to
finish from a rush to hoop 2 with Ben on the S
boundary in front of hoop 1, getting only as far as
hoop 5. Shortly afterwards a two yard approach to
1back on a two ball break was declined (Rothman in
corner 4) for a ladies peel at 1back, this presented
Ben with a massive target at the ball in the hoop and
a bit of the other ball which he missed. Shortly
afterwards the Brits declined a wire behind two back
instead choosing to rush to the middle of the S
boundary and roll up to 3back, when this failed Tony
retreated to corner 4. Ben missed Stephens ball near
4back and instead of taking on the four yarder
offering a potential peg out Stephen went to Corner 2.
Ben missed Tony who took off to 3 back and stuck on
the Eastern wire. It was obvious that any hit from Ben
would see the ball ping off towards hoop 1 but he
chose to make sure of the roquet shooting rather
gently, as was to be typical of the Americans all week
and rolled up successfully from 10 yards and when a
genuinely difficult hampered shot after hoop 2 was hit
the match was the Americans. With hindsight it is easy
to overplay the significance of any particular game
but this was undoubtedly one of the pivotal games of
the match.
The second round of doubles was the most uneventful
round of the week. Huneycutt and Stark made short work
of Dawson and Patel after the Brits made an error in
the first game. Brown and Burridge rather handily
managed to synchronise their poor play for the week
and went down with 5 errors to Rothman and Grimsley.
The latter running the most angled hoop I have ever
seen run, it was about a foot long and at least 50
degrees from where I was standing, Doug confirmed it
was “well over” 45 degrees. This left us with Tony and
Stephen who had taken the first with a clinical Le
Moignan TP and following a break down on a TPO by the
Americans and a bit of further interplay the match was
pegged down with Tony having a finishing turn from 2
and penult as dusk fell at 4.30pm.
This was the first test match ever played in December
in the Northern hemisphere and whilst it is fiendishly
difficult stat to check I suspect that the final day
of the match December 7th is the shortest day that a
test match has ever been played upon.
Although technically 3-2 to the US it felt like 3-3 a
scoreline, which I would have been happy with at the
start of the day and certainly after the first hour
would have bitten the hand off of anyone offering, but
after the TPO expectations were much higher. This was
a 21 match test at its best. In my view it is
generally a poor format frequently failing to provide
interesting competition but when you do get a
competitive match the ebb and flow of the initiative
is excellent. Things looked pretty good Stephen was
playing very well, Tony, Samir, Jeff and myself were
all playing perfectly pretty well for us and only
Robin's form gave cause for concern. On their side
Grimsley had looked surprisingly good, their best
players Rothman and Huneycutt were clearly confident
and playing well. Stark looked reasonable although not
as strong as the other three, Soo looked out of form
and Jim although appearing reasonably solid looked
less likely to pick up breaks and complete TPs than
all the other players.
The first round of singles was played best of five, we
knew at the outset that there might be an issue
finishing the matches but we had plenty of spare time
on day 3 with only one round of doubles scheduled. On
a freezing cold cloudy day Grimsley got the US off to
a great start beating me in probably a little over
three hours, it would have been quicker had he not put
his deep ball off the lawn setting up for a straight
rover peel when winning having had just six turns of
croquet in the match. I played some very bad shots
before penultimate which led to be having to peel
rover from the best part of three yards with only a
deep ball. The peel went through but only just and
feel into the “fin hole”. The hoops being used had
large fins protruding from the carrots probably by the
best part of two inches, they are generally knocked
slightly below the surface to ensure that they don't
interfere with strokes but this creates a small
depression and balls that come to rest often end up in
this and as a result tighter to the wire than might
ordinarily be the case. In a subsequent game an
American had the “fin hole” at rover leveled with sand
against me, presumably aware of this eventuality, so
my “top tip” arising from the week is beware of
the “fin hole”. Needless to say I wouldnt be writing
all of this had I finished, having played an excellent
jump shot a few more poor strokes led to a cannon from
about 5' and a choice of trying to knock peelee into
the jaws which I was was worried I might miss
completely or an attempt at a more full ball contact
taking the ball clear of the hoop. I attempted the
latter achieved the former and ended up stymied from
partner perfectly in the jaws of rover.
This match had been played on the back courts from
which it was fairly easy to view the front courts and
have a clear idea of what was going on, viewing the
back courts from the front is much more tricky. On the
front courts Tony made easy work of Jim in three and
never looked in trouble. But alongside him Stephen was
being beaten by the same scoreline as Danny hit all
five of the shots he had in the match including a tea
lady. Stephen was shooting well himself and so the
scoreline was +17tp, +17tp +17tp. One of Rothman or
Huneycutt playing well enough to beat Stephen was
always a possibility, particularly given the
conditions and one which would not have surprised any
of us ,however the manner of the victory and the fact
that Stephen was effectively played off the park must
have given the US a great boost.
Brown v Rothman looked like it was going to be an easy
win for the American until in the second game he chose
a poor line of play going out when rolling to a ball
in corner 4 to set up a TP. It was a characteristic of
Ben's play throughout the week that he was always
looking at the start of the second break to accelerate
his TP, often with large croquet strokes. In the
conditions these plays generally represented
unnecessary risks, as was shown by all the other
players routinely making standard delayed TPs look
easy. Robin took full advantage and I thought might
well pull off an upset before his TP floundered on a
straight double in the third, Ben capitalised on this
error but Robin quickly equalised again in the 4th
despite not finishing his TP. But it all looked to be
to no avail when Robin had missed the lift in the 5th.
However Ben unexpectedly missed a 3 yarder he was
probably trying to cut after hoop 1, Robin hit his six
yarder but in popping Ben from hoop 2 to 3 sacrificed
his leave. Ben hit a 12 yarder with his hoop 3 ball to
the W boundary level with hoop 6 with Robin having an
11 yard join on the E boundary. It seemed likely Robin
would get a shot for the match but Ben had other ideas
completing a very good TP to win the match. Whilst
this was going on Jeff always seemed in control
against Jerry despite losing the first game, Jerry
looked likely to make a couple of errors and wasnt
shooting great whereas Jeff always seemed likely to
finish in two turns when he took croquet and this is
pretty much how it panned out as Jeff won 3-1. The
final match was the poorest quality of the day as an
out of form Soo took on Samir who could not buy a
roquet. By the end of the day they had only completed
three games (Samir leading 2-1), whilst we were
prepared for the eventuality that the round might not
finish we hadn't envisaged anything would fall this
far short.
The half hour of daylight remaining did however enable
Tony to finish in the pegged down doubles game to make
the overnight score 6-5 to the US, although in our
heads it was 6-6 as Samir was a massive favourite to
beat Soo. Whilst this was at the bottom end of
expectations this scoreline was always a possibility
if the US managed to overturn Mulliner.
That evening the tournament meal was hosted by Keith
and Sandy Comrie at their home on the Mission Hills
Estate, it was a huge success and well supported by
numerous members of the club. Throughout the week this
was the striking distinction between this match and
other away Solomon trophies I have been involved with.
We were at a croquet club, with croquet people who
were so obviously supportive of their club hosting the
event and of their team from the moment we arrived to
the moment that we left. I hope they enjoyed it and
will be encouraged to bid to host other events in the
future.
The final round of doubles I thought held the key to
the match if we could win it 2-1 and take an 8-7 lead
into the final round of singles I did not think that
we would be caught. The US came out of the blocks fast
again winning the first in all three matches and soon
afterwards Rothman and Grimsley, who were clearly the
best doubles pair in the match and I would guess
certainties to be playing together for the US in the
next Mac, beat Dawson and Patel with one TP each. The
GB team were however able to take some solace and
amusement from watching Ben interrupting Doug three
times during his TP and advising him to take sub-
optimal lines of play.
Things were starting to look bad as Soo and Bast had
the first break in the second against Brown and
Burridge who decided a Brown TPO was the best chance
and this was duly executed when Robin hit the lift.
Off the contact Jeff failed to get position at hoop 1
with Ian's ball having a 13 yarder from between 1 and
2 at Robin in corner 2. The GB team on the sideline
were split 2-2 between corner 4 and shooting but more
worryingly the pair on the lawn were split 1-1.
Eventually the impasse was broken when Ian said he was
going to hit it which he duly did and should have
finished until he misapproached penult slightly and
not wanting to stick off the hoop 1 ball settled for
running the hoop hard and hoping he was lucky with
where the strikers ball ended up and when he wasnt he
retired to corner 2. The error could have been more
costly in other circumstances but when Jeff missed an
8 yarder from Penult to Rover allowing Robin to peg
out the match was leveled shortly afterwards. A fifth
turn win in the next meant that GB had gone from game
and break down to winning the match in an hour and a
half. A bit of momentum at last maybe as Stephen and
Tony had also equalised. Stephen's sextuple had failed
almost from the moment it had started with the 1 back
peel jawsing and the 2 back peel being done behind
schedule, leaving a straight quad to be done but when
peelee wasn't rushed in front of 4back a contact leave
was required. Huneycutt got going and made an NSL.
Stephen who had clearly been shooting well throughout
the event took control of the situation and took the
potentially match conceding short lift with the peg
ball and hit it, a miss from the Americans later and
Tony made no mistake about squaring the match.
I thought this next game would decide the match, it
was our toss and it seemed so simple to the four of us
sat on the sidelines. Tony supershot, Stephen hits,
they miss we win. Stephen had other ideas as he put
out the supershot, Danny replied with a ball about 4
yards off the E boundary just slightly N of hoop 5.
This allowed Tony to shoot at the short 11 yard
supershot ball which he did gently missing, Jerry
missed the resulting double and Tony missed the shot
back at partner. Danny hit the supershot ball and
played a great shot to get a rush to hoop 1 from the
ball on the S boundary. In probably his only sign of
nerves of the week he moved the rush about a yard and
when he didnt get position for the hoop with a take-
off had to retire to partner on the N boundary. Tony
hit the resulting 14 yarder at partner for the first
break. I wandered over and asked Stephen what the plan
was, “1 back”, was the confident reply. A few minutes
later after hoop 3 Tony called Stephen to ask what the
plan was and heard what he didnt want to hear. The
Huneycutt tea lady hilled off in the last few yards so
the rollercoaster began. 1 back was again only jawsed
but at least it was rushed through decently this time
and 2back was jawsed before 5. 3 back was jawsed
before 1 back but with no rush after the hoop the best
Stephen could do was to rush it N a bit and play a
take off moving it 4 yards NW of 4back going to
peelee. The strikers ball fell short and was exactly
on the line of 2 back and 3 back, Stephen made the
correct call in my view and took on the 8 yarder at
the 2back pioneer rather than peelee, he made two back
croqueted this ball directly onto the rush line to 3
back for the ball up by 4back going to peelee which
was rush peeled and jawsed into 4 back getting a short
45 degree cut on the poor escape ball. When this
missed the pivot by less than an inch the sextuple was
done or at least it was until Stephen failed to run a
3' very slightly angled 3back. This allowed Jerry to
get round this time with Danny having the TP to do
Stephen opted for the long lift and hit it, made his
hoops, left Tony a rush to 4back from the W boundary,
Jerry in Penult and Danny slightly off the E boundary
with a 13 yarder at probably about 75% of a full
target at the ball in Penult which he missed. Tony's
heart must have been in his mouth when he felt the
stroke he played at rover from a foot, if it wasnt
there already it certainly will have been when he
heard the noise it was making in the hoop but it got
through he had a shot at the escape ball and GB would
lead 8-7 if Samir could wrap up the pegged down game.
Had he not been on my team what happened next would
have been the highlight of my week. Stephen put the
balls down where they had been before he stuck in
3back and carried on the turn. He ran 3back without a
rush rolled N of peelee in the jaws of 4back hit the 6
yarder at the escape ball, missed a cannon peel from 4
yards sending the strikers ball N of 4 back and failed
to make the roquet on peelee in the jaws from a few
feet at 45 degrees. It made me feel quite relieved he
had just opted for not running 3 back in the match!
The ideal world plan was for Samir to wrap up the
match in four to allow everyone to play the first game
of the best of 5 singles that evening. Samir had other
ideas finding two unbelievably poor croquet strokes, a
Hogan Roll where the strikers ball didn't get close to
leaving the SE quadrant of the lawn and a take off to
partner to set up a wired leave for two and peg after
Soo had broken down on a TPO letting Samir in with his
forward ball. Needing to take off from 2 yards N of 4
to 3 yards S of 3 he ended up 3 yards N of 3 and cross
wired from partner, Jeff hit to level at 2-2 after
Samir had missed a subsequent lift. Samir recovered to
win a clinical 5th game winning the opening and
getting the first break but Soo hit the lift and made
a diagonal spread. Given how Soo was playing there are
not many players who would have taken the “short” lift
which was around 3 yards shorter than the long lift
but Samir is one of those players and he hit it in the
middle and finished. GB lead 8-7. But with the whole
days play required to get to this point the final
round of singles had to be best of three as it was
clearly the case that 8 playing hours was insufficient
to ensure that all 6 best of fives finished.
To me 8-7 looked like it should be enough to be
particularly as we had the momentum having got there
from 7-5 down. (In the last 2 away Solomons GB have
only led 8-7 going into the final day with a much
stronger team than this time in 2005 and playing
generally weaker American sides they achieved 5-1 and
6-0 victories in the final round of singles on those
occasions). Dawson/Soo looked pretty much like a
banker to us but similarly Huneycutt/Brown was in all
probability theirs. Stephen should be too good for
Rothman and I had been playing better than Jim, the
other two were very balanced indeed.
All seemed to start pretty well in the persistent
drizzle which was forecast to get heavier as the day
progressed. Jim was taking the first break against me
giving me the chance to observe proceedings, Robin,
Samir, Tony and Jeff all had first breaks for us and
Rothman was going round for them. Tony carelessly
stymied himself before hoop 5 handing his break to
Doug. Still by the time Stephen and I had missed our
lifts Samir had won his first game in double quick and
morale boosting time. Jeff took his first game quite
some time afterwards and Jim finished against me.
Danny had unfortunately hit the lift as he was rather
prone to do throughout the week and took his first
game, by which point Stark had equalised against Samir
and Tony had got in and completed a TPO against Doug.
Rothman had chosen a poor line of play against Stephen
after his 3back pioneer hit the peg opting to peel
rover going to 2back only jawsing it, rushing it
through before 3back, not getting a good rush on the
ball by the peg and subsequently missing his return
roquet. (Another example of Ben breaking down trying
to unnecessarily accelerate a peeling break). This let
Stephen in for a 1 back leave which seemed like a good
idea given the fall back option of the Rigall. I
couldnt see the detail of the break myself but Samir
on the adjacent court said it was not without
excitement but was duly finished when an Irish peel of
3back finished in the jaws of 4back. I lose the
chronology slightly now as I luckily got in after
missing what should have been my last lift in the
second when Jim stymied himself setting up for a TP at
hoop 3, a defensive leave paid dividends when Jim did
not finish and I hit my last shot to equalise. By now
Brown and Soo had also equalised and Stephen had raced
to put the first point on the board for GB, given that
it was with a TP I assume that it was 5th turn. Just
what the doctor ordered.
Tony had played the one ball TPO ending 5 v 1 very
aggressively and very well. Unfortunately it was all
undone when Doug for hoop 5 hit Tony for rover and in
front of it from the N boundary. Some might say that
Tony shouldnt have been there but 1 ball games always
need winning and this seemed like a playable option to
me. Doug established a two ball break but didnt get a
forward rush out of Penult at which point he asked
Tony, “I dont concede lifts right” and Tony
replied “thats right”. I watched in horror wondering
what International incident was about to unfold before
my eyes as Doug deliberately rushed Tony on to the
centre line, took off to rover and wired himself there
with the peg. Tony wandered on and claimed his wiring
lift and thankfully for International relations Doug
immediately said “oh of course I concede wiring lifts”
and let Tony get on with things. Many people would
have acted differently and Doug is to be commended on
his sportsmanship. Tony missed and shortly afterwards
Doug won +2.
Samir was well through another TP in game 3 but Danny
had hit the lift in the third against Robin (who had
equalised without allowing Danny croquet), our Jeff
(as he was affectionately known throughout) on the
most distant court seemed to have the first break in
the third as did Jim against me. The drama for the day
was Samir failing a 5' slightly angled rover peel
after his rush to peeling position had got a kick. He
ended up too near a jawsed peelee to be able to jump
it and Jerry had made his first break in doing so
peeling Samir to peg and peg. This was without doubt a
massive lift shot, GB needed 2 and it was starting to
look like this definitely needed to be one of them. I
thought Samir struck the shot really cleanly but it
missed by a couple of inches so Jerry had a delayed TP
for an unlikely win. Jeff Soo had hit the lift but
stuck in hoop 1 off partner but established his first
break after our Jeff missed from hoop 2. I had also
missed and was going down to a Bast TP, Tony was on
another TPO and Danny had just finished for a 2-1 win
against Robin. Jerry completed his TP without any
undue alarm as did Jim to make the match score 10-9 to
the US. Tony had immediately got a three ball break
after the contact turn so for the moment it was all
eyes on Soo and Dawson. Soo made a mess of his leave
ending up with an 8 yard join on the E boundary
allowing our Jeff a free short shot at the 4 back ball
which missed by absolutely nothing. Soo played the 4
back ball and laid up in corner 4 with Jeff's hoop 1
ball between hoop 3 and the boundary and his partner
ball fairly near the W boundary by hoop 2. Dawson
missed from hoop 3 to hoop 2 and Soo completed the
triple to wild applause and of course “whooping” from
the Americans. Jeff Soo is looking pretty pleased with
things but is oblivious to the fact that it is the
11th win when it dawns on him he leaps about 3 foot in
the air and screams in an uncharacteristic outburst of
emotion. In all my years playing I have never seen a
player so short of confidence in a test match recover
to win a critical match. In many ways it was fitting
that Jeff, their captain, scored the winning point he
had if nothing else through the previous three days
kept trying to play properly with the hope that
eventually he would play himself into some sort of
form and with Jim's win too it meant that every member
of their team had contributed at least one win to the
cause.
With the celebrations over it was decided not to
complete the now dead final game between Doug and Tony
as the rain get heavier. The lawns were to become
waterlogged later in the afternoon as Palm Springs had
its wettest day for six years and more rain on that
one day than they had had in the remainder of the year.
Robin, Jeff and Stephen could not have played any
better on the final day. Samir is unfortunate that the
timing his error against Jerry makes his error look
particularly significant but we all made them
throughout the week. As for Tony we will never know....
My biggest disappointment was really with my own
personal performance and the fact that I failed to
really get into a match I felt I should win and I
think it typified the overall performance of our team.
You only have to look at Danny Huneycutt and his five
+17tp wins, having conceded the first break on each
occasion, in the singles to realise that losing 4
singles games by 26 is simply not the required
standard of play on very easy lawns. The Americans won
the match because they had styles of play better
suited to the conditions and as a result played better
and achieved better results. They generally outshot us
and this was not because they happened to be on good
shooting form and we werent, indeed Stephen, Tony,
Samir and Robin (after the first day) shot well, Jeff
was reasonable and only I was poor. The Americans
style of play is designed for shooting well on good
quality flat American courts and they took full
advantage of this. (It is no coincidence that GBs best
shot was Stephen who was probably our gentlest
shooter, stroking the ball as is typical of the US
players rather than hitting it as is more typical for
the British players). The other noticeable difference
was their ability to approach hoops much more closely
than the British players from more than 2 yards away
to unfailable distances and ones which enabled
controlled rushes to be obtained. Grimsley was perhaps
the best example of this. The conditions were easy but
the Americans played the easy conditions better than
we did and were rewarded with a deserved victory.
That is why I believe this specific GB team lost but
it cannot go unsaid that the reason GB lost this match
and with it her unbeaten record stretching back to
1985 is that with the exception of Stephen she fielded
her 'C' team. It is unfortunate that when this match
is looked back on in history that Brown, Burridge,
Dawson, Le Moignan, Mulliner and Patel will be
remembered as the players who first lost the Solomon
Trophy and not as the only six players who were
actually prepared to go and try to defend it.
Ian Burridge
11 December 2009
COMPLETE MATCH SCORES
Huneycutt&Stark lost to Brown&Burridge
+26tp(H) -26tp(Bu) -26tp(Br)
Grimsley&Rothman beat Le Moignan&Mulliner
+17tp(G), -26sxp(M) +6otp(M)
Bast&Soo lost to Dawson&Patel
+5tp(S), -26tp(D) -16tp(D)
Huneycutt&Stark beat Dawson&Patel
+13, +26tp(S)
Grimsley&Rothman beat Brown&Burridge
+26tp(G), +16tp(R)
Bast&Soo lost to Le Moignan&Mulliner
-26tp(L), -4
Ben Rothman beat Robin Brown
+26tp -14tp +5 -26 +17tp
Danny Huneycutt beat Stephen Mulliner
+17tp +17tp +17tp
Jeff Soo lost to Samir Patel
-5tpo +21 -9 +12 -17tp
Jerry Stark lost to Jeff Dawson
+17 -26tp -15tp -7tp
Doug Grimsley beat Ian Burridge
+26tp +26tp +2
Jim Bast lost to Tony Le Moignan
-16tp -18tp -24tp
Huneycutt&Stark lost to Le Moignan&Mulliner
+22tp(H) -17 -17
Grimsley&Rothman beat Dawson&Patel
+26tp(G) +25tp(R)
Bast&Soo lost to Brown&Burridge
+17tp(B) -11tpo(Br) -26tp(Br)
Ben Rothman lost to Stephen Mulliner
-5sxp -26tp
Danny Huneycutt beat Robin Brown
+17tp -26tp + 17tp
Jeff Soo beat Jeff Dawson
-26tp +26tp +17tp
Jerry Stark beat Samir Patel
-26tp +26tp +2tp
Doug Grimsley unf Tony Le Moignan
+2otp -13tpo
Jim Bast beat Ian Burridge
+26tp -4tp +26tp
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