Oxfordshire 2nd Team V Buckinghamshire 2nd Team

Oxfordshire’s Second Team played Buckinghamshire, at Huntercombe, for their last match in their county divisional series. After winning two of the morning’s foursomes when the Oxon duos of Tilly Holder (Oxford Ladies) and Jane Binning (Frilford) beat the Bucks pairing of Holly Small and Jo Robinson 2/1, and Annie Gowing (Frilford) and Claire Reynolds (Chipping Norton) beat Julie Cooper and Debbie Pollard-Barnes 2 up.

Oxon went into the afternoon’s singles with 2 points in the bank they had a tough battle in the singles only managing 2 wins namely Jane Bining beating Jo Robinson 2/1 and Annie Gowing who beat Kayleigh Giles 3/2, and newcomer to the squad Sally Woolven from Henley finished her match with a half against Debbie Pollard-Barnes which resulted in an halved match overall.

Second Team Captain Ali Kelly from Huntercombe was delighted with the team’s performance over all the matches, the best Oxfordshire has achieved from some years, winning against Hertfordshire and Hampshire and halving the last against Buckinghamshire, no losses, bearing in mind that the first match against Berkshire had to be cancelled due to bad weather and course closure.

Morning Foursomes

Oxfordshire PlayerResultBuckinghamshire PlayerResult
Jane Binning
Tilly Holder
2/1Holly Small
Jo Robinson
 
Claire Reynolds
Annie Gowing
2upJulie Cooper
Debbie Pollard-Barnes
 
Sarah Stirk
Sarah Arnold
 Harriet Beasley
Kayleigh Gales
2/1
Overall Result2 1

Afternoon Singles

Oxfordshire PlayerResultBuckinghamshire PlayerResult
Jane Binning2/1Jo Robinson 
Tilly Holder Harriet Beasley3/2
Sally Woolven½Debbie Pollard-Barnes½
Claire Reynolds Holly Small3/2
Sarah Stirk Julie Cooper1up
Annie Gowing3/2Kayleigh Gales 
Overall Result2 ½ 3 ½