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BREAKING NEWS ARCHIVE 20/05/03 -  SYLVIA STEER WINS AT BUDLEIGH SALTERTON

Budleigh Salterton May Tournament

 Sylvia Steer won the 'C' Class Event at Budleigh Salterton's May Tournament held between May 12th and 17th. Here are some more details of that win.

After a good first day in which Sylvia won 3 games (+18, +24, +23), she went on to win 5 out of the seven games in her group.  There were 4 people on 5 wins but as each had beaten at least one of the others, the finalists were chosen from the two players with the highest positive score.  That first day certainly helped!  The other finalist was Amanda Prowse from Sidmouth, also a 9 handicap.  Sylvia beat Amanda +12 to win the J. K. Brown Memorial Challenge Cup.  (Won by Martin Granger Brown in 1968 and 1970).

Sylvia and Mike played in the doubles and although knocked out of the 'X' doubles in the first round, went on to win the 'Y' doubles (for those knocked out of the 'X'), beating four couples along the way.  This resulted in them being presented with a nice bottle of wine each and made it almost worth not winning the 'X'.