{"id":2025,"date":"2015-03-26T01:02:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?page_id=2025"},"modified":"2015-03-26T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T01:03:56","slug":"millennium-doubles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/?page_id=2025","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Saturday 25th March 2000\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Battlefield repeated their success in 1994 when they beat Archibald Worthington by 17 chalks today to lift the <b>SHADES<\/b> sponsored 8 a side pairs competition held today at\u00a0Severnside and take the \u00a3200 first prize. In the initial Group stages, Archibald Worthington progressed from Group 1, winning both their games against Donnington Wood and Bylet\u00a0respectively. In Group 2, Battlefield also won both their game against Childs Ercall and Wrockwardine Wood, whilst on the same green Group 3 was turned on its head, with Wem USC losing their first game against Craven Arms only to progress with the best aggregate\u00a0following their 21 shot win against Meole Brace and then watch as Meole Brace defeated<br \/>\nCraven Arms, but not by enough to win the group. In Group 4, the group of death,\u00a0Castlefields started with two comfortable wins against Chester Road and Sir John Bayley, but\u00a0following St Georges 10 shot defeat by Chester Road, they needed to beat Castlefields by 20 to win the Group and with St Georges leading by 11 shots after 2 games, Keith Walton and Rich Goddard won 21-10 to ensure their safe passage to the semi finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In the semi finals Battlefield never looked back against Wem USC after Neil Clarke and Paul Humphries won 21-4 and maintained their 17 shot aggregate to win decisively. In the other semi final, Archibold Worthington shocked Castlefields with a power packed display and after two comfortable wins the game was conceded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Final Scores: Andrew Moss\/Pete Jones 5, Mal Parry\/Kevin Perks 21: Paul Smith\/Rob Mansfield 12, John Addison\/Colin Beaman 21: Mark Cooper\/Dave Brookfield 19, Peter Bound\/Dave Beer 21: Chris Pearce\/Dave Hope 21, Paul Humphries\/Neil Clarke 11<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Battlefield won by 17<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pictured below are the two finalists with Alan Peach from the Sponsor SHADES (Centre)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Final_pairs-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Final_pairs\" width=\"423\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Saturday 25th March 2000\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8230; Battlefield repeated their success in 1994 when they beat Archibald Worthington by 17 chalks today to lift the SHADES sponsored 8 a side pairs competition held today at\u00a0Severnside and take the \u00a3200 first prize. In the initial Group stages, Archibald Worthington progressed from Group 1, winning both their games against &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5VaGi-wF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2025\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thespbl.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}