Team Handicap - Round 1
Queens 'A' 440-467 Portals

Queens 'A'
Tony Palaczky
Alex Garlick
Pete Martin

Portals 
Steve Blunden
Pete Blunden
Gary Walters
 
Portals had a massive 358 headstart and so only needed 82 points to secure their place in the 2nd round. This gave the Div1 Leaders a massive task of winning 11-2 every set against a side 18 places below them in the league.
 
Steve Blunden got off to a dream start taking 7 points off of Tony Palaczky in the 1st set, however Tony quickly recovered taking the remaining sets 11-0 11-1 11-4.
 
Portals continued to edge closer to their target but Queens made up ground in the doubles with a convincing 11-1 11-0 11-3 11-3 win.
 
However the match was over after Gary Walters took 6 points off Alex Garlick in match 8
Queens were then looking to make their loss as close as possible to be in with a chance of going through as a top 5 "closest losing margin" team.
 
Pete Martin was Queens' best player on the night dropping only 29 points in all 3 of his matches.
Pete Blunden gained over half of his teams points on the night picking up 50 in his 3 matches.

Report by: Patrick Garlick