By John Thomson
Last Monday saw the Lilydale Level Play team travel to Kew. Although Kew are sitting third on the ladder and three test’s behind Lilydale, this was shaping up to be a tight game.
The first game was the doubles, and again Lilydale fielded their strong doubles combination of Alan Jones and Craig McCracken, but Kew were not going to give them their own way and in an epic struggle Kew prevailed winning 7 hoops to Lilydale’s 6 hoops.
Next up was the singles games. The first game was tight but saw Lilydale prevail winning 7 hoops to Kew’s 5 hoops. This put both team’s level on one game a piece with Lilydale up by 1 hoop.
The second singles was even tighter with Lilydale winning 7 hoops to Kew’s 6 hoops. At the break it was Lilydale leading by 1 game and 2 hoops.
After the break it was the reverse singles, and it looked like it could be anybody’s day.
The first game again was tight, but Lilydale just edged in front to take out the game 7 hoops to Kew’s 5 hoops. This win secured the day for Lilydale, so to the last game and it was just a matter of if Kew could win to restore a bit of pride.
Lilydale got on top early in this game and came away with a comfortable 7 hoops to Kew’s 4 hoops.
Although Lilydale won the day with 4 games 34 hoops to Kew’s 1 game 27 hoops, the games were a lot closer than the final scores indicate.
This win keeps Lilydale undefeated and on top of the ladder with four weeks to go in the season.
The Handicap Shield this week was postponed because of the inclement weather.
