Our Wessex League teams have now all completed the 2021-22 season, once again run online this year.
We entered 5 teams into the main evening league and 1 into the daytime league this season:
The A Team played in Division 2, and won 5 out of their 6 matches, to see them promoted back to Division 1 as Division 2 champions. This is a great achievement and well done to all of the team - Angela Adams, John Boorman, Malcolm Currie, Trevor Dawe, Roger Haycock, Jemma Hewlett, Paula Hopkinson, Colin Jones, Gaye Kyle and Peter Malpass (David Emerson and Andrew Hones played in 1 match).
The B, C and D Teams all played in Division 3. The B Team won 3 out of their 6 matches and only missed out on promotion by 7.2 Victory Points (out of 120 available across the season), finishing 3rd in the table.
The C and D Teams are very closely matched and so it was to prove across the season. Taking each of their 5 matches against the other teams in the division, they have two wins each and there was only a very marginal difference in their scores, so really which ended up above the other came down to the match between the two teams. This was played early on in the season, and was won by the D team, meaning that they finish in 5th place and retain their spot in Division 3, with the C Team finishing in 6th place and unfortunately relegated to Division 4.
The E Team, including quite a few players who were new to playing in the Wessex League, played in Division 4. Like the B team they won 3 of their matches and finished 3rd in the division, a very creditable result for this new team and hopefully they can build on it next year.
The Daytime team consolidated their position of 3rd in Division 1 behind two strong Abingdon teams which they achieved the previous season, but this time won 4 out of their 6 matches as opposed to 3 out of 6 and gave the 2nd placed Abingdon B team a tighter fight. We'll be hoping they can break Abingdon's stronghold on the top places in this league next season.
Overall, a strong season of results for our Wessex League teams and showing excellent promise for next season, whether that will be played online or face-to-face we still don't know. Thank you very much to all the players who have represented the club this year and particularly to the other captains Stuart Fox, Patricia Hones, Peter Dyer and Tom Rogerson. If you are interested in playing teams bridge for the club in the future, please talk to me or any of them about it - the Wessex League covers a wide range of standards of play and there is no need to be an expert player or have any experience of teams play. It would be particularly good to have more teams in the daytime league in future seasons.
(added by David Emerson 23rd March 2022, updated 6th April)
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