In Penwith College's sports hall at the weekend, the West Cornwall
Badminton League held their annual championships and around 40 players
representing clubs from all over west Cornwall took part.
The day started with the men's and women's doubles with some close fought
matches resulting in the men's winners from the Tecans club in Pool, Chris
Glasson and Sam Spencer beating First Edition's (Camborne) brothers, Jack and
Elliot Dyer.
Chris and Sam with runners up Jack and
Elliot
In the men's restricted category, two scratch pairings led to Chris
Cordell from Truro, and Jake Turpie from Falmouth triumph over the young pair
from Cornwall Youth Badminton, Potae Sheppard of First Edition, and Alexander
Beaumont from Tecans.
Winners Chris and Jake with Jake and
Potae
In the combined women's doubles there was high level play throughout,
and in the end tournament organiser Amy Cox and her partner Yinling Tan both
from the CSM club in Penryn university beat sisters Mollie and Beckie Bailey
from First Edition in an exciting match.
Tournament organiser Amy Cox with
winning partner Yinling, plus Mollie and Beckie
After refuelling thanks to The Cornish Oven pasties, sponsored by
Glasson's Garage, the players started the combined mixed doubles event.
Eventually, after some tight games, the final was between Chris Glasson and
Kellen Moore from Tecans against the First Edition pairing of Jack Dyer and
Mollie Bailey, and Chris and Kellen just came out top after a see-sawing
battle.
Mixed doubles finalists and winners
Chris and Kellen with Jack and Mollie
The last events of the day were the men's and women's singles - in the
men's restricted the young doubles pair were this time against each other, with
Potae Sheppard narrowly beating Alexander Beaumont. The open men's event saw
Jack Dyer, who had beaten title holder Sam Spencer, finally get revenge over
Chris Glasson and take the singles title for the first time. The women's
singles was won by first team county player Kellen Moore, who just edged out
Mollie Bailey in a nail-biting game.
Singles finalists, winners Jack, Kellen
and Potae, with Chris and Mollie (missing Alexander)
And so the championships came to a successful end as the weary players
dispersed to catch up on Royal weddings and FA cup finals.
