Match v Nottinghamshire

Sunday October 4th, 2009.
1st Team, Walsall G.C.
2nd Team, Radcliffe-on-Trent G.C.

First Team Captains Report

Foursomes
Disappointingly, Staffordshire only got one point in the morning's play, which was obtained by Dave Walley and Neil Wain winning their match 2 & 1.

Staffordshire 1: Nottinghamshire 4

Singles
With Andy Ellis and Neil Wain both losing by 1 hole, Staffordshire only managed to gain one point out of the first three matches. Dave Walley won his match 2 & 1, as did Jarred McKnight and John Whitehouse. Paul Griffiths and Brian Belcher both halved their matches. This wasn't enough to stop the Nottinghamshire team from finding some late season form.
Final score

Staffordshire 5 Nottinghamshire 10

I would like to thank all the players, officials and everyone who has taken the time to support the 1st Team during my two years as Captain. It has been a great honour and privilege. I would like to wish Dean Porter all the best for his Captaincy.

Brian Belcher
1st Team Captain

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Second Team Captain's Report

The Final 2nd Team match of 2009 was away against Notts at the Radcliffe-on-Trent Golf Club where I was hoping to field a relatively young side to include the recent Staffs Match play Champion, Freddie Sheridan Mills who withdrew late due to having a golf lesson.

The side did include David Law and Lee Wain along with James Willis, Ben Barwell, Chris Bradshaw, Chris Crane and Joe Bartello who whilst still being youngsters they have been present in the side for the majority of the season.

The foursomes resulted in a whitewash for Nottinghamshire 6 - 0 with three of the matches being resolved on the 18th and the other three being comfortable victories.

In the afternoon singles it was not the same story with at one point Staffs being down in all but two of the matches, this was turned around and ended in a 5.5 - 6.5 win for Nott?s with again several of the matches going down to 18th.

The overall result was a convincing Staffs win of 11.5 - 6.5.

Kevin Beattie