After a tense climax to a very competitive competition played in great spirit and atmosphere, it was a win for the WPA to take back the trophy.

Congratulations to all the WPA players who took part.

Competition report (courtesy of Shun Price):

Report on BIG v WPA 2019 competitition

This year’s competition took place at Caerleon P.C. on Sunday 21st July.

The weather was with us as it was quite sunny in the afternoon.

This year the BIG team was supported for the first time by teams’ right across the 4 divisions with no one club dominating the team places. Very pleasing was the appearance of a number of new teams (clubs) playing their first representative games. Also some old faces reappeared in a competition outside the normal league matches.

It was a 10 team competition and the following players supported the BIG league.

Chris + Chris  Greenlawn                 Sam and Tony White Hart

Stuart and Jeff  Greenlawn         Richard and Chris   Talywain

Kay and Tania Caerleon               Liz and Caz          Isca Arms               

Ian and Marc Caerleon               Ryan and Steve   Twyn y Ffrwd

Wally and Dave  Caerleon         Gail and Pat         Wheatsheaf

We also lent the WPA team Nick and Rhys from Machen to make it 10 teams a side

There were 6 games to be played 3 before lunch and 3 after.

Games were keenly and friendly contested and the results went as follows

Rd 1 – WPA 2 up       Rd 2 – WPA 4 up Rd 3 – Draw       Rd 4 – Draw

Rd 5 – BIG 2 up        Rd 6 – BIG 2 up

For the final round 6 BIG needed 4 games to draw and after a big effort only made 2 games up on the WPA with the last two results in this round being timed out at a draw (!) being the only draws of the whole competition.

So the WPA won 31 games to 29 games.

No team won 6 games and the best teams being Lyn and Marie WPA with 5 wins and The Greenlawn team of the two Chris’s. with 4 ½ wins.

Everybody after confirmed that it had been a great day and the BIG new converts are up for it for next year.