After a grey sky start glorious sunshine burst through for the final round of the winter competition with two matches in Mansfield and two in Euroa.
Top side Euroa faced Seven Creeks who had come to play. Rowena Ellis, Nicola Enright, Carmel Linehan and Mary Kelly managed to win one set 8-5, and narrowly lost one 6-8 and yet another in a tiebreak, in their last match.
Euroa’s Lyndall Bigland, Faye Mollison, Mary Dewis and Lyn Pierce were given a good workout in the lengthy contest.
Euroa won 5/45 to 1/28.
Delatite met Mansfield in another local derby with Karyn Fraser, Carolyn Murray, Kass Thomas and Deb Mims battling hard all day.
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Mansfield’s Michelle Pigdon, Keira McDonagh, Sophie Yencken and Clare Beecham found their rhythm but were challenged by Carolyn and Kass in their final set taking it to a tiebreak.
Keira and Sophie snatched the breaker, so Mansfield won every set 6/48 to 0/26 in an almighty tussle.
Wappan welcomed Benalla onto their superbly groomed courts aspiring for the major points to push them up from 4th spot.
Benalla’s Claire Sharp, Maureen Jewell, and Deb Siggers felt grateful Di Bergelin would join them against her own team.
Di and Deb made a fast start going up 2-0 against Rhonda Carpenter and Carol Watts in an arm wrestle reaching 3 games all with multiple deuce games and lengthy rallies.
The rattled Wappan pair steadied and took the set 8-3.
Anna Speirs and Jenny Bell made short work of their opening set 8-2.
Wappan stamped their authority on the contest in the next pairs taking both 8-0.
There was mention of ‘moonies’ and meetings at Millers corner in Benalla in the enjoyable contest.
Anna and Carol needed to lift in their final set with Claire and Deb taking it up to them 6-8.
Wappan won 6/48 to 0/13 earning the coveted 10 points to put them into 3rd spot.
The match of the day was an epic contest between the second and third placed teams. Moglonemby's Judy Sands, Marlene Hanrahan, Danielle Scottis and Lisa Krepp hosted Terip's Cindy Hayes, Phoebe Macdermid, Meg Ford and Jenny Martin in a game that would shape the final four.
Both teams gave their all with the first set between Judy and Marlene and Cindy and Phoebe lasting an hour and 23 minutes with Cindy and Phoebe winning the marathon set 8-7.
On the other court a much quicker set with Meg and Jenny winning 8-2 and then Terip claimed the next two sets.
With both teams hoping the final two sets would be quick the rallies got longer as every player lifted their game to the next level, with Moglonemby winning both sets in tie breaks. Judy and Lisa mounted an almighty comeback at 2-6 down in their breaker to win it.
The final score saw Terip win 4-46 to 2-35. Moglonemby may have lost but they had so much fun and with Terip giving them so much encouragement they felt like winners.
Next week our semifinals (Euroa v Moglonemby & Terip v Wappan) will be held in Mansfield commencing at 10.30am.
Spectators most welcome.
Winners to progress to Grand Final.
Thanks to everyone for a really fantastic season!
Final ladder: Euroa 115.5. Terip 102, Wappan 98, Moglonemby 96.5, Mansfield 82, Benalla 63.5, Creighton’s Creek 52.5, Seven Creeks 36, Delatite 29.
