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County Week 2003 Day 3
The day began with Warwickshire clearly understanding the challenge. They had to win all of their matches to beat Staffordshire and go through to the next round. Drawn against Derbyshire the foursomes teams were Hannah Coles and Anne Parry, Lisa Barton and Claire Howells, Marsha Button and Jane Mander. The top two matches lost in hard fought battles whilst Marsha and Jane managed to scrape a half with an excellent fight back which took the match all the way to the 18th

This gave us only a half point at the end of the morning session which meant that every match had to be won in the afternoon. Meanwhile Staffordshire were 2-1 down to Worcestershire which gave the Warwickshire camp hope.

The afternoon singles team for Warwickshire was, Claire Dowling, Hannah Coles, Jane Mander, Lisa Barton, Marsha Button, Claire Howles. Claire Dowling, who incidentally is suffering from a knee injury and spent the morning with her physio, had the most fantastic match against Melanie Reid, an up and coming young star. The match was won on the 18th at which point Claire was an amazing 5 under par gross. Jane Mander, who only in fact drew, started the match with birdie, eagle, birdie, and birdie! The final two matches where won by Marsha and Claire, who played with true style and determination in an effort to keep the Warwickshire flag flying. You can t say that Warwickshire don t fight back! However, the odds were stacked against us and the final score for the afternoon was 3.5 - 2.5.

The eventual outcome for County Week was a win for Staffordshire:

Final Placings - 1 Staffordshire 2 Derbyshire 3 Warwickshire 4 Worcestershire

Beth Towers on 2003-06-03