On Sunday,
social and league badminton teams came from all over Cornwall to the Sir Ben
Ainsley Sports Centre in Truro for Cornwall Badminton Association’s brand-new
tournament, the Kernow Carlton Cup.
Teams of two
men and two women competed against each other for the trophy in level doubles
and mixed doubles events with a final play-off for the overall winner.
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| The finalists - winners Mounts Bay and runners-up Newquay |
The clubs that took part were Choughs (Camborne), TruFal (Truro/Falmouth), Mounts Bay (Penzance), St Austell Bay, Newquay, Par, Wednesdays (St Austell), CSM (Penryn), and Truro, in an enjoyable day of good badminton.
After some
close fought games, Newquay came through as the Box B winners, over nearest
rivals, the CSM club based in Falmouth University’s Penryn campus. In Box A it
was the Mounts Bay team that dominated with a big gap to second placed St
Austell Bay.
And so, the
final began with the men’s doubles, which Newquay’s powerful combination of
Nathan Holmes and Drew Daniels taking both ends, despite a fight back from the
Mounts Bay boys in the second end.
Next up was
the women’s doubles, and Mount’s Bay Marianne Fowler and Choi Wong combined
well to outpoint Lorna Riggs and Jane Hamberg of Newquay, leaving it all down
to the two mixed doubles games to decide the outcome.
Jamie Dunn
and Marianne proved too strong for Drew and Lorna with their careful placement
and attack, to give Mounts Bay an advantage, and then Nathan and Jane levelled
things up yet again by beating Tony Wong and Choi with some hard hitting and
fast court coverage.
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Jamie and Marianne v Drew and Lorna
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Tony and Choi took on Nathan and Jane
Some quick
calculations and the winners were announced – by only 4 points, Mounts Bay had
triumphed, after an exciting, high quality final, to end the successful day of
this new tournament.
