Melbourn won 19-7

The 1sts pulled off their best result of the season to date, and arguably of any of their recent forays into Cambs Division 1, as they opened the second half of the campaign with an away win at leaders Hunts County 1sts.

The home side had a very familiar look to them as three of their number, Colin Griggs, Sofia Averio-Pita and Jason Burgon, have each played for Melbourn in the past – Colin learning the game at our club many years ago (he now teaches it to others!), with Sofia and Jason having played for us as recently as the Herts League last summer.

All three former Melbourn players fell to a current representative though as Colin was beaten 3-2 by Matt Sampson at top string, Sofia fell 3-0 to Chris Shaw (2) and Jason went the same way against Vinod Duraikan (3).

The bottom two strings were intensely close contests, Mike Herd (4) coming out on the right side of a match that went the distance against Henry Ingham with Mark Oppen (5) losing out in similar fashion after he and Luke Halliwell (the newly appointed league secretary) played each other to a near stand-still.

The final score was 19-7 in the 1sts favour, which lifted the boys up to sixth in the Division 1 standings.