E. Devon League’s End of Term Jolly (06.06.2017.)
June 8th, 2017 | 
Author: On Tuesday evening the local league held their annual end-of-term prizegiving and match at the Manor Hotel, Exmouth, by kind invitation of the new Management.
Proceedings started with the presentation of trophies by the League President, Brian Aldwin. Pictures may be found below, but in summary they were as follows:
Cup___________ For Winning_________ Team________Recipient
RapidPlay Cup: RapidPlay League Exmouth Eels Alan Dean
Cottew Cup: Div 1 Champions Sidmouth Scorpions Charlie Keen
Turner Cup Div. 1 Grading prize Exmouth Eagles Steve Murray
Polsloe Cup Div. 2 Champions Just Seaton Hazel Welsh
Mainstay Cup Div. 2 Grading prize Tiverton Thinkers Greg Fotheringham
This bit didn’t take long, and then it was time to sort out the 28 players present into two teams of roughly equal ability, ready for two rapidplay games of 30 minutes per player per game. This finished as follows.
| E. Devon League Prizegiving - 2017 | |||||||
| RapidPlay Details | |||||||
| Bd | President’s XIV | 1st | 2nd | Secretary’s XIV | 1st | 2nd | |
| 1 | J. Underwood | 0 | 0 | T. Paulden | 1 | 1 | |
| 2 | T. F. Thynne | 1 | 1 | M. Shaw | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | I. Gregory | 1 | 0 | G. Body | 0 | 1 | |
| 4 | I. S. Annetts | ½ | ½ | S. Dean | ½ | ½ | |
| 5 | B. G. Gosling | ½ | ½ | C. Keen | ½ | ½ | |
| 6 | A. Dean | ½ | 0 | J. Duckham | ½ | 1 | |
| 7 | J. S. Murray | 0 | ½ | J. Amos | 1 | ½ | |
| 8 | W. Marjoram | 1 | ½ | R. H. Jones | 0 | ½ | |
| 9 | P. Dillon | 0 | ½ | G. Fotheringham | 1 | ½ | |
| 10 | R. Scholes | 1 | 1 | M. Haines | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | B. Newcombe | 1 | 0 | M. Hussey | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | B. Perchard | 1 | 0 | S. Honeyball | 0 | 1 | |
| 13 | H. Welch | 1 | 1 | G. Jenkins | 0 | 0 | |
| 14 | P. Leask | 1 | 1 | R. Greenall | 0 | 0 | |
| ……………………… | ……………………… | ||||||
| TOTALS | 9½ | 6½ | 4½ | 7½ | |||
| 16 | 12 | ||||||
- Charlie Keen receives the Cottew Cup on behalf of the Div. 1 Champions, Sidmouth Scorpions
- Alan Dean takes the RapidPlay Cup for Exmouth Eels, a slippery lot when it comes to quickplay!
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Steve Murray collects the Turner Cup for Exmouth Eagles.
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- Hazel Welch takes the Polsloe Cup for Just Seaton.
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Greg Fotheringham takes the Mainstay Cup for Tiverton.
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