Week 6 of the Stratford Tennis League saw both games come down to the last set played. In the early game first place OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY had all they could handle with DONKERS AGRI. The ladies for DONKERS AGRI gave their team a strong start. In the ladies #1 doubles DONKERS swept OCCUPATIONAL with Johanna Billings and Maria Donkers downing Nancy Rheaume and Annette Garneau 6 - 4 , 6 - 3. The ladies #2 doubles had a split of sets as Gail Shelton and Sandie Ennett of DONKERS took the first set 6 - 4 before Claire Scott and Monica Eickmeyer of OCCUPATIONAL scored a 6 - 3 victory in set two.
OCCUPATION's men got them back in the match. The #1 mens doubles team of Bob Tamblyn and Spencer Trachsel defeated John Noble and Shannon Dyke 6 - 4 , 6 - 2. DONKERS #2 mens doubles team of Pat McCarroll and Jack Watson took the first set 6 - 2 and OCCUPATIONAL'S #2 mens team of Jagdish Patel and Paul Barclay took the second set 6 - 2.
OCCUPATIONAL'S Rheaume and Tamblyn easily handled DONKERS Billings and Noble 6 - 0 in the #1 mixed set. DONKERS #2 mixed pairing of Donkers and Dyke edged Garneau and Trachsel 7 - 5. OCCUPATIONAL took the lead with the #3 mixed team of Scott and Patel scoring a 6 - 4 win over Shelton and McCarroll. Needing a win in the fourth mixed set to secure a tie, DONKERS got what they needed as Ennett and Watson downed Eickmeyer and Barclay 6 - 3. the teams ended the match in a 6 - 6 tie in sets.
The late game was also a back and forth affair. The FLASHING PEARLIES took the early lead as their #1 ladies doubles team of Marta Andrekovic and Heather Henke held off PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES #1 team of Linda Doig and Deb Murphy 6 - 4 , 7 -6 (7 points to 5 in the tie-breaker). PHYSIOTHERAPY's #2 ladies doubles team of Nancy Chung and Marilyn Holmes took their first set 6 - 4 but fell to The PEARLIES' Marilyn Leasa and Sandy Darby in the second set 6 - 1. The men's #1 doubles went to The PEARLIES as Richard Bast and Zdenko Andrekovic drubbed Chris Parson and Greg Vivian 6 - 2 , 6 - 2. PHYSIO's Morgan Davis and Nathan Walsh scored a 6 - 4 , 6 - 2 win over Brent Hiller and Todd Chisholm in the #2 men's doubles to get PHYSIO back in the match.
The #1 mixed set went to The PEARLIES with Andrekovic and Bast edging Doig and Parson 7 - 5. Another 7 - 5 set went The PEARLIES way in the #2 mixed set as Henke and Andrekovic topped Murphy and Vivian. PHYSIO's #3 mixed team of Chung and Davis took down The PEARLIES' Leasa and Hiller 6 - 4, while Holmes and Walsh of PHYSIO held off Darby and Chisholm 7 - 6 (7 points to 2 in the tie-breaker) to take the #4 mixed set. The FLASHING PEARLIES kept their winning streak alive by taking the match 7 sets to 5.
After six weeks of play, OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY has a solid lead in first place while The FLASHING PEARLIES hold on to second place. DONKERS AGRI is in third place and PHYSIOTHERAPY THERAPY remains in fourth. Next week's match ups are OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY vs The FLASHING PEARLIES in the early game and DONKERS AGRI vs PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES in the late game.
