The Stratford Tennis League playoff season began this week with the semifinal match ups. The early game saw a big upset as PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES knocked off the regular season's first place finisher , OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. PHYSIO's #1 ladies doubles team of Linda Doig and Deb Murphy got things started with a sweep of their sets 6 - 2 , 6 - 3 over OCCUPATIONAL'S Nancy Rheaume and Annette Garneau. OCCUPATIONAL's #2 ladies doubles team of Cathy Mowbray and Monica Eickmeyer evened the match with a 6 - 3 , 6 - 1 win over Nancy Chung and Marilyn Holmes. The #1 men's doubles went to OCCUPATIONAL as Spenser Trachsel and Murray Schiedel downed Chris Parson and Nathan Walsh 7 - 6 (7 points to 4 in the tie-breaker) , 6 - 2. Morgan Davis and Mike Furlong scored a 6 - 4 , 6 - 1 win for PHYSIO in the men's #2 doubles over Grant McPherson and Gustavo Garcia sending the match into the mixed sets, tied at four sets each.
The #1 mixed set went to Doig and Parson of PHYSIO as they scored a 6 - 4 win over Rheaume and Trachsel. Murphy and Walsh took the #2 mixed set for PHYSIO with a 6 - 2 win over Garneau and Schiedel. OCCUPATIONAL remained alive in the match when Mowbray and McPherson won the #3 mixed set 6 - 3 over Chung and Davis. The upset was complete when PHYSIO's Holmes and Furlong scored a 6 - 3 win over Eickmeyer and Garcia in the #4 mixed set. The 7 sets to 5 win for PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES send them into next weeks 'A' final , while OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY will play for the 'B' title.
The late game started with a split of sets in the #1 ladies doubles as DONKERS AGRI'S Johanna Billings and Maria Donkers took the first set 7 - 5 and the FLASHING PEARLIES' Marta Andrekovic and Heather Henke taking the second set 6 - 1. The #2 ladies doubles also split their sets with DONKERS' Gail Shelton and Jolanda Vandereijk winning 6 - 3 in the first set , then the PEARLIES' Marilyn Leasa and Sandra Darby winning the second set 6 - 4. The #1 men's doubles also split as DONKERS' John Noble and Shannon Dyke won 6 - 3 before falling to the PEARLIES' Richard Bast and Zdenko Andrekovic 6 - 4. DONKERS was able to sweep the #2 men's doubles as Pat McCarroll and Paul Barclay downed Brent Hiller and Sing Chung 7 - 6 (7 points to 3 in the tie-breaker) , 6 - 4.
The #1 mixed set went to the PEARLIES' Andrekovic and Bast as they defeated Billings and Noble 7 - 5. DONKERS took the #2 mixed set as Donkers and Dyke beat Henke and Andrekovic 6 - 4. The #3 mixed set also went to DONKERS when Shelton and McCarroll handled Leasa and Hiller 6 - 2. Vandereijk and Barclay won the #4 mixed set for DONKERS 6 - 4 over Darby and Chung. The 8 sets to 4 win for DONKERS sends them into the 'A' final.
Next Tuesday the final matches of the season will be played. PHYSIOTHERAPY ASSOCIATES and DONKERS AGRI will play in the early game for the 'A' championship while the late game will see OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY face The FLASHING PEARLIES for the 'B' championship.
