2009
ECBA RINKS
Sunday 12th April 2009
The 2009 ECBA Rinks (Fours) was held at
Braintree Leisure Centre and was organised by Essex C.B.A on
behalf of the ECBA.
A total of 40 pairs were entered for the
competition and although the majority of teams were local, there
was one noteable entry from the former winners Glendale/Lindisfarne,
who had travelled all the way down from Northumberland to take
part.
For the Round Robin stage the entrants
played in 8 groups of 5 teams, with the top 2 teams from each
group qualifingy for the knockout stages. The First Round of
games would see with each of the group winners playing against
a runner-up.
Such were the results from the First Round
that the Quarter Finals saw the Winners and Runners-Up from groups
1, 3, 5 & 8 all playing one another for the second time in
the day, although this time around only two of the group winners,
Feering Blue 2 and Kelsale, would progress, while Roxwell 2 and
Langham who had finished second in their respective groups made
it through to play one another in the second Semi-Final.
There was never much between Feering and
Kelsale in their Semi which eventually went the way of Kelsale
7-5, while in the other game Langham came back from dropping
4 shots on the first end to take a relatively comfortable 11-6
win over Roxwell.
The Final was a close fought affair with
Kelsale starting out by taking a single shot to lead after the
first end, Langham immediatley responded with 2 on the second
and edged out to a 5-2 lead after 5 ends. Kelsale brought the
score back to 5-4 with one end to go, but Langham took the final
end by the narrowest of margins to take the title with a 6-4
win.
First Round |
Group Winners |
|
Runners-Up |
Feering Blue 2 |
beat |
Finchingfield |
Roxwell 3 |
lost to |
Sea Palling |
Kelsale |
beat |
Reepham |
Dedham |
lost to |
Barking |
Littleport Village Hall |
beat |
Feering Gold |
Hunters 2 |
lost to |
Roxwell 2 |
Walton-on-the-Naze 1 |
lost to |
Langham |
Feering Blue 1 |
beat |
Stilton |
Quarter Finals |
Feering Blue 2 |
beat |
Sea Palling |
Kelsale |
beat |
Barking |
Littleport Village Hall |
lost to |
Roxwell 2 |
Langham |
beat |
Feering Blue 1 |
Semi-Finals |
Feering Blue 2 |
5 - 7 |
Kelsale |
Roxwell 2 |
6 - 11 |
Langham |
Final |
Kelsale |
4 - 6 |
Langham |
|
You can find a list of the past winners
here.
updated 14th
April 2009 |