Moolap Goats consolidated its position at the top of the table in Section 2 Thursday Triples this week, with a 5-1 win over third placed Wombats.
Playing at Grovedale, the away team started well with Kyle Beattie and Riley Kotwic taking the first doubles 6-1, however, Wombat’s Michael Yodgee evened the score taking his singles 6-1.
From there it was all Goats with Kotwic and Beattie winning their singles 6-0 and 6-2, and Michael Kotwic pairing with the two to win the doubles 6-3 and 6-2.
All Saints almost pulled off an upset when it hosted Western Heights Uniting, but missed out by the narrowest of margins.
The match was close the whole way through with Jeff Smith and Andrew Ryan taking the first doubles for the Heights 6-2, while Zane Garbellini put the home team ahead with his 6-1 win in his singles.
The middle sets were tough affairs with Elaine Ly winning her singles for the Saints in a tie-break, and the Heights getting through in the doubles 6-4 to leave the match tied on sets and games going into the final two sets.
It looked likely that the end result would remain at a draw, but Smith won his singles 6-3 while Ly and Garbellini took the doubles 6-4, giving the win to Western Heights Uniting by one game.
In the final match of the round, Bogsy’s Blokes leapfrogged into third with a 5-1 win over the Zing Kings.
The Kings pushed the guns from Grovedale in the opening sets taking the first singles in a tie-break, but going down to Brodie Nankervis and Fin Armstrong 6-3.
From there however, Nankervis and Armstrong had convincing wins in their singles 6-2 and 6-1, and teamed with the team’s namesake Jacob Boag in the doubles winning 6-0 and 6-2.
With one match to go before the extended finals series, the Goats are sitting pretty six points ahead of Western Heights Uniting, but with only six points between them and All Saints sitting in fifth, the teams are evenly poised to progress into finals.
