Donna Schoenmaekers
The completion of round seven in the midweek ladies’ competition this week took them to the halfway mark of the season, and though the weather wasn’t great, most matches were completed.
Section 1 saw one of its three matches abandoned due to the weather and this result, along with the two lopsided results in the other matches, saw changes to the positions on the ladder.
Top-placed Moriac tried to continue its good run this season against Geelong Lawn White, however the weather was not on its side, with play abandoned at one set all.
With the matched tied, and Geelong Lawn Pink taking a good win over Surfcoast Bellbrae, Moriac dropped to second, three points behind Pink.
It was a drizzly morning in Bellbrae where Surfcoast took on Pink. The home team started slow, going down in the first two sets 6-4, 6-3.
For Pink, Georgie Parker served some rockets into the corners of the service box and Annette Morgan returned well, and proved too good even for Kristie Walter’s perfect technique and Robyn Baxter hitting some lively shots in her debut for Bellbrae.
Things got a bit tighter in the middle sets with Pink fighting hard to take them in a tie-break and 6-4.
Bridget Laird blasted some fantastic winners for Pink in the third set, while Jennie Prince’s classic net play wasn’t quite enough to get Bellbrae over the line.
Miyo Fallshaw and Baxter tried hard to take the fourth for Bellbrae, but the pairing of Parker with Kerry Fatone for Pink proved too strong.
The final two sets also went the way of Pink 6-3, 6-1 giving it a clean sweep for the day, and the full points pushing the team into top spot on the ladder.
The final match of the round was between Surfcoast Torquay and Point Lonsdale, which went five sets to one to Torquay.
Unfortunately Point Lonsdale was a player short, meaning that three of the sets went to Torquay uncontested.
The Lonny girls weren’t completely out of the picture on the day with Val Wilson and Kerry Winton taking the first set 6-3, however, Torquay won the remaining two sets, with Michelle McKenzie taking both her sets for the day.
At the end of the day, the two Surfcoast teams traded places on the ladder at third and fourth.
